Describe the fieldwork and research you would undertake in order to investigate changes in coastal land use over time -Weymouth Section A - Background information: Weymouth and Portland is the smallest district in Dorset at 16 square miles however still contains a population of 64‚ 460 people‚ meaning it has the highest density of people in the County (though not as high as Bournemouth and Poole). Weymouth and Portland are well known for the quality of their beaches and both are popular tourist
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Fieldwork in the Corporate Offices of Jakarta‚ Indonesia This chapter raises important issues about the efficiency of traditional ethnographic fieldwork techniques in transnational corporate settings. William Leggette conducted his fieldwork in Jakarta‚ Indonesia. He depicts this culture as a “multi-ethnic‚ multi-cultural landscape [that] promotes a constant sense of dislocation-for both resident and visitor alike”(75). There are noticeable contrasts between the class systems in this city‚ as
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made during her ethnographic research in different areas of the West Africa. In this book‚ the writer has described different experiences and factors that they have experienced during fieldwork conducted with a number of children facing the problem of malnutrition. There are different dramatic stories and events that have been experienced by the writer. There are a number of challenges and issues that have been faced by the writer during the ethnographic research and the fieldwork that
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In his selection titled‚ “Introduction: Partial Truths‚” James Clifford asserts that ethnographies present “Partial truths” and‚ as such‚ are not entirely valid. According to Clifford‚ “Even the best ethnographic texts - serious‚ true fictions - are systems‚ or economies‚ of truth. Power and history work through them‚ in ways their authors cannot fully control” (p. 7). Due to these historical constraints‚ it is impossible for anthropologists to assert the ‘full’ truths about a culture and confidently
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Chapter 3: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS 1. Based on reading this selection‚ how is ethnographic research different from other social science approaches to research? Answer: Ethnographic research is different from other social science approaches to research because it goes more in depth. With an ethnographic research you are required to eat‚ sleep‚ and breath what is being studied. In order to get a better understanding you will need to incorporate such living (as that of the culture
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While ethnographic methods such as participant observation (fieldwork)‚ interviewing‚ and archival examination are broadly applied in many qualitative studies‚ Wolcott (2008) argues that this approach‚ borrowing ethnographic techniques‚ needs to be separated from doing ethnography. For Wolcott (2008)‚ ethnographic researchers not only experience and enquire about cultures and human activities through participant
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impelled to write in your fieldwork diary a few hours or days after a diary entry.’ This is a combination of fieldwork notebooks that also have a series of sketches in them which constitute Taussig’s impressions kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. The book tees off from a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006‚as well as its caption‚ “I swear I saw this” Taussig has always been seen as having written books both visceral and visually rooted in experiencing fieldwork as it unfolds into a ‘fable’
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Ethnography Research Addressing ethnographic inquiry Frances J. Riemer Groping in the dark When I began my first ethnographic research project‚ I wasn’t an ethnographer. I was a teacher and a student‚ living in the city‚ pondering questions about education and social mobility‚ poverty and work. I had enrolled in a doctoral program and taken classes in research methods‚ but I became an ethnographer by doing the things that ethnographers do. I learned how to ask questions by asking
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Ethnographic fieldwork is another way of using the term ethnography. Ethnographic fieldwork‚ or ethnography‚ usually consists of “spending a year or more in another society‚ living with the local people and learning about their way of life” (Gezon and Kottak 2). There are at least three different methods that anthropologists use when it comes to how they execute their fieldwork. First‚ there is the Participation-Observation method which can be described as‚ “taking park in the events one is observing
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Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down exemplifies the techniques of ethnographic research that we have studied in class. Also I will consider the question if there are ways in which Fadiman could have improved her methods to be a better anthropologist. In the essay I will look at the specific methods and techniques that Fadiman utilized. I will discuss where she conducted her research and also cover how she conducted her fieldwork. I suggest Anthropological studies on cultural difference would have
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