childhood photos‚ Walt was so young not a single grey hair showing and he was even showing a smile in a few of them. There were a lot of people here considering how friendly Walt was maybe 100 or so people‚(adjusts shirt) I was wearing traditional Hmong clothing along with my sister‚ I Still Couldn’t get over losing such close friend‚ I couldn’t get over how quickly things can change. I went from trying to steal his car to him being a father to guiding me into becoming a man. Taught me how to fix
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Name Date Ethnographic Observation I set out to find a place to begin my observations‚ not knowing what to fully expect‚ what I may find. So I decided to look around at what is close to my home that isn’t a place I frequent or have even visited at all. Then it came to me‚ the Starbucks that is only about a mile away is a perfect place for me to observe subjects that I would consider different from myself‚ seeing as how I consider such obscene prices for coffee ridiculous. Starbucks is a very
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Ethnographic Observation I chose to do my Ethnographic Observation at the Hare Krishna temple in Spanish Fork‚ Utah. I chose this location because I thought it would be the best place to observe different behavior and cultures. It is also close to my home‚ and I had never had a chance to explore it. The Hare Krishna temple is a very interesting location to observe. The grounds are very large‚ and the temple itself is beautiful. There is a sort of corral next to the temple
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comparisons with new situations and contrast them to our own environments. Ethnographic fieldwork involves‚ in a certain sense‚ dissociating from the comforts of our own cultures in order to immerse ourselves in the “comforts” of another. There are benefits and obstacles to this hands on course of field work. First‚ as stated above‚ Humans are biased. We will almost certainly hold our own cultural values as a standard‚ to which the culture we are studying will he held to. This can lead to a skewed collection
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When Your Patient is a Hmong Refugee‚ under the American Journal of Nursing‚ provides guidelines to the medical community in how to effectively understand Hmong patients. To understand this subject‚ author Betty Rairdan and Zana Rae Higg‚ conducted interviews with 13 families from five different clans‚ all refugee families and have resettled in Washington. The families‚ mentioned many similar ideas that were presented in The Spirit Catches You And You Fall. For instance‚ all families mentioned the
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Examine the advantages and disadvantages of using ethnographic methods for sociological research I am going to look at the advantages and disadvantages of using ethnographic methods for sociological research. Ethnography is in-depth research into people’s lives through the use of primary data such as Observations and Interviews‚ and also secondary data such as diaries‚ and official documents. The first method of research I am going to look at is a primary research method that is unstructured
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Ashli Rice Cultural Anthropology Ethnographic Paper March 25‚ 2013 Jehovah’s Witness Arriving at the Jehovah’s Witness meeting I was very nervous about what was to come. I knew that nothing radical was going to happen‚ there was going to be now speaking in tongues‚ or dramatic rituals‚ but because I knew I was entering into a different belief something just did not feel right. Although the feeling of the meeting was not exactly comfortable‚ I learned a lot from my observations. On Thursday
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In the United States‚ the Hmong American community has the largest youth population with half of its population being under the age of 18 years old.In addition‚ Hmong students have one of the lowest bachelor degree attainment rates across all racial and ethnic groups. Furthermore‚ there is a big gender difference among the rates in which Hmong male and females attend and complete college. Based on the 2013 Hmong National Development Conference report‚ roughly 29.9% of Hmong American females reported
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involving field research in his account of the year and a half he spent in Kelantan. He also discusses the understanding‚ humility and scars that these experiences may leave behind. Raybeck provides in-depth descriptions of Kelantanese society and culture. He addresses topics such as political structures‚ the status of women‚ kinship‚ linguistics‚ and economics. Additionally‚ he demonstrates for us how challenging yet rewarding anthropological fieldwork can be‚ and we see how he builds rapport in a
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other people around the world think about or view sexual activity was very interesting‚ although there were definitely a few things that surprised me about their culture and how they view sex. Thomas Gregor did not initially go there to study the sexuality of the Mehinaku but he thought in order to get the full understanding of their culture it was pretty vital to do. The Mehinaku are very open about sex. They have little embarrassment of their sexual desire and even their children will recall the
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