principles of professional ethics‚ and that the only way of avoiding such dilemmas is to cease the conduct of any research (Fine 1993:267). Clearly there a variety of differing ethical dilemmas which occur in research‚ however those which arise in ethnographic research are in complete contrast to those ethical dilemmas raised in biomedical or quantitative research‚ where some might suggest that ethical problems are greater (Alder et al 1986). Punch (1994) goes further in suggesting that qualitative studies
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nephew of a founding father of sociology and anthropology‚ Emile Durkheim. Mauss wrote his book The Gift (in French ) in 1925 and it has become a classic. He wrote it before fieldwork had become the central method in anthropology‚ at a time when scholars compared societies all around the world‚ ‘he soaked his mind with ethnographic material’ (EP viii) and attempted to make sense of universal patterns and themes. (We have already seen this in the work of Van Gennep on Rites of Passage.) Mauss was not
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Major Characteristics of Survey Research * Most surveys possess three basic characteristics: (1) the collection of information (2) from a sample (3) by asking questions‚ in order to describe some aspects of the population of which the sample is a part. The Purpose of Survey Research * The major purpose of all surveys is to describe the characteristics of a population. * Rarely is the population as a whole studied‚ however. Instead‚ a sample is surveyed and a description of the population
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readers into the culture of the Neo-Pagan cults in America and focus upon what it reveals about identity and belief in 21st century America. Through her careful employment of ethnographic techniques‚ Magliocco allows both the Neo-Pagan cult to be represented accurately‚ and likewise‚ scientifically. I argue that Magliocco ’s ethnographic approach is the correct way to go about this type of research involving religions. Magliocco defines "Neo-Paganism" as others have before her as "a movement of new religions
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Langnes‚ L.‚ L. and Frank. G (1978). Fact‚ Fiction and the Ethnographic Novel. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly‚ 3 (1-2)‚ pp. 18 – 22. Metcalf‚ P. (2002). They Lie‚ We Lie: Getting on with Anthropology. London: Routledge Malinowski‚ B. (1984). Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. United States of America: Waveland Press‚ Inc. Pratt‚ L.‚ M. (1986). Fieldwork in Common Places. In: J. Clifford and G. E. Marcus‚ eds
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The Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea have been a key site of anthropological study for over a century. Trobrianders were first made famous by Bronislaw Malinowski in the early twentieth century‚ and were studied further by anthropologists such as Annette Weiner. Katherine Lepani’s ethnography‚ Islands of Love‚ Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands‚ provides a modern analysis of HIV in the cultural context of the Trobriand Islands. Lepani sought to display HIV in the Trobriands as
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Book Review: Tom Boellstorff Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human Boellstorff questioned whether it was possible for a virtual world to be subject to the same ethnographic techniques and analyses as locations and communities are in the real world. As a leading ethnographer studying gay and transgendered cultures in Indonesia‚ Boellstorff brings a significant amount of experience and expertise to this field of work. He proposed the question – was it possible
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hand out questionnaires‚ other researchers may also go on to rely on their own thoughtful reflection with the sole aim gathering information about a particular topic and making as much objective in-depth analysis as possible as well as conducting ethnographic studies. Qualitative research has received a lot of praise in the business world mainly because it has helped managers and owners of both large and small companies identify and understand the problems that exist within their company and even sometimes
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Indiana State University Social Rituals and the Verbal Art of Zora Neale Hurston by Lynda Marion Hill Review by: Australia Tarver African American Review‚ Vol. 33‚ No. 2 (Summer‚ 1999)‚ pp. 362-365 Published by: Indiana State University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2901288 . Accessed: 12/01/2015 03:53 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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Exam #1 REVIEW‚ Fieldwork‚ Theory‚ Culture‚ Religion‚ and Tonga For Kottak’s Chapters 1‚ 3 and 12 and class lectures: Define the sub-fields of anthropology and recognize the kinds of studies done in each. What kinds of research are done in applied anthropology in each of the subfields? Review all the research methods typically used in cultural anthropology. What are the research methods? Which methods did Small and Pendry use? What do anthropologists have to do to be able to conduct research
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