Developing Research Proposals Handout Prepared by Ted Zorn‚ University of Waikato This is a handout I often give to students when I expect them to provide a research proposal for a course project. That is‚ it’s intended for fairly brief proposals‚ not a prospectus for a masters or doctoral thesis. It gives students an example of the sort of thing I want‚ plus some commentary (in italics) about what I’m expecting in each section. I sometimes change the particular example given‚ in order
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People take an interest on different subjects‚ in the case of Claire Sterk her article “Tricking and Tipping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of Aids” is about the lives of prostitutes from the prostitutes view points. Topics include how they introduced themselves to the world of sex in exchange for money or drugs‚ the violence and abuse they encounter during work‚ and how many of the prostitutes managed to conclude that way of life. Sterk began her research due to her interest in women’s health
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04-Marshall-4864.qxd 2/1/2006 3:16 PM Page 97 4 Data Collection Methods ❖ ❖ ❖ Q ualitative researchers typically rely on four methods for gathering information: (a) participating in the setting‚ (b) observing directly‚ (c) interviewing in depth‚ and (d) analyzing documents and material culture. These form the core of their inquiry—the staples of the diet. Several secondary and specialized methods of data collection supplement them. This chapter provides a brief discussion of the primary and
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eyes and ears of Diehl. She set out to conduct research in Dharamsala in 1994 on the back of a conference paper she wrote on the Tashi Delek Blues‚ a cassette tape of ‘modern’ Tibetan music that cemented her desire to carry out “anthropological fieldwork on the other side of the world” – a desire fuelled by wonder at the ability of the ‘other’ to play the blues‚ and a curiosity
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matrilineal society‚ the Trobrianders engage in markedly different courtship and marriage activities‚ and have been able to preserve much of their culture despite colonization and influence from other cultures. The first anthropologist to perform an ethnographic study of the Trobriands was Malinowski. Between 1915 and 1918‚ Malinowski lived a total of two years with Trobriand people and gathered information for what would be his most significant and memorable work in the field of anthropology. Though
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questions raised in this virtual seminar make the important point that the political economy involved in how we conduct‚ and then represent our ethnographic practice has both linguistic and epistemological dimensions. With this in mind‚ I take a critical look at linguistic and discursive practices involved in both the conduct and the representation of ethnographic work on Corsican that I have produced both alone‚ and in concert with actors on the ground. In discuss some of the conditions in which anthropological
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Guest‚ Kenneth J. Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age. New York: W. W. Norton & Company‚ 2017. This book Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age by Kenneth Guest explores the expansion and development of Anthropology throughout the years. Reading this book shows the progress of culture anthropology presenting how to understand and engage today’s world. Using the skills provided in the reading will show insight how anthropologist can analyze and build experience around the
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Indian‚ and Hispanic‚ to list a few. International students in particular have sparked my interests. I wanted to learn more about them and hear about their life experiences here in America. In this paper‚ I will relate an observation made on my fieldwork to what it means to be a citizen and discuss the complexities of translations between two cultures. Background Information on Evan Evan Lee (name changed to protect identity) is twenty-two years old and an international student at the University
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Participation of Anthropologists in Violence Name: Institution: Participation of Anthropologists in Violence Violence is a form of aggression that involves the use of physical force against a person‚ a group or a community that leads to psychological harm‚ injury or death. Violence can be verbal or physical. There are different types of violence‚ which include religious‚ structural‚ and domestic violence. The amount of violence and its manifestation in various societies vary substantially. Some
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outside of Bugis society. The Bugis acknowledge three sexes (female‚ male‚ hermaphrodite)‚ four genders (women‚ men‚ calabai‚ and calalai)‚ and a fifth meta-gender group‚ the bissu‚ not easily comparable to the Western ideas of gender. The rich ethnographic material contained in this book challenges two types of Western theory - queer theory‚ which tends to focus on sexuality‚ and feminist theory‚ which tends to focus on social gender enactment. Gender roles‚ not normally found in Western society
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