The problems that faced by anthropologists in the fieldwork are adaptation to new culture‚ maintain objectivism and get access to all information from their subjects. Adaptation to new culture is hard‚ since they have to stay for a period of time and try to live in the way their subjects’ do. Adaptation that done by anthropologists is not only adapt new lifestyle‚ but also learning their cultural norms and language in order to be accepeted by their subjects as a part of them‚ not only as a foreigner
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First Fieldwork The book First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist by Barbara Anderson‚ is a book about a graduate student who moves to Denmark for a year to do an ethnographic report of the people in a small Danish‚ island town of Taarnby. She travels with her husband‚ Thor‚ who is a licensed Anthropologist‚ her daughter Katie and her unborn child‚ Sarah. Although a fictionalized book‚ it clearly and accurately describes the challenges and perils of being an inexperienced Anthropologist
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Writing Assignment When an anthropologist takes under the task of doing fieldwork he or she is taking on an overwhelming amount of obstacles one must overcome in order to record accurate information regarding a specific civilization. He or she must overcome many obstacles such as language‚ race and culture in order to even start a study on a specific culture. In the films "Shock of the Other" and "Margaret Mead and Samoa" we‚ as the viewer get to see how these fieldworks are done from a perspective
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Fieldwork Plan of Attack At my research site I plan on taking notes my in a small notebook so I could easily jot down notes as I see/hear things occur. On my notes I will make sure to include date‚ time‚ specific facts‚ numbers‚ sensory impressions and summaries of conversations. I will just jot down phrases or words to remember what I saw or something to easily trigger my memory. The elongated notes I will write them as soon as possible
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and Fieldwork Researchers throughout the world most often conduct practical work in a all natural environment outside their laboratory or office in order to experience in firsthand what it is to live outside the society they have been exposed to all their lives‚ and integrate into another civilization that imposes cultural traditions and policies that the researcher may have never been imposed to in the past. These types of works or studies that ethnographers conduct are called fieldworks; and
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Growing up‚ my mother was a stay-at-home mom. In order to have extra spending money‚ she passed out papers for USA Today. Early one morning‚ my mother was passing out papers at the Embassy Suites when a fully naked man chased her down a hallway. Somehow‚ my mom was able to run and pull her cart of newspapers into an elevator before he caught up to her. My mom was traumatized because she had no way to defend herself. After she told our family about the naked man‚ my half-brother gave her one of his
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Humans are naturally biased‚ we try to find 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
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The use of anthropologists in intelligence gathering for the military is a very complex subject. To speak upon because‚ there are many pros and cons they will encounter along the way here is an example of a con that was stated in Chapter- 9 of our textbook “Anthropologists have deep reservations that anthropologists’ involvement could hurt civilians‚” (Nowak & Laird‚ 2010). They are right! By given the military personal information could cause horrific trouble. However‚ pros side of this if anthropologists
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1 David Otten Anthropological Fieldwork Reducing Ethnocentrism Anthropological fieldwork is when an anthropologist spends an extended length of time living with a specific group of people and studying their culture. During this period‚ the anthropologist will engage themselves in the lives and daily practices of the natives of whichever culture they are studying(Koziol 2015). In comparison to fieldwork in other disciplines such as journalism‚ anthropological fieldwork is more hands-on. Journalists
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An Anthropologist On Mars Essay Assignment Oliver Sacks is a very famous doctor of neurology as well as a writer. He spent most of his adult life treating patients. Oliver Sacks mostly concentrated on disorders of the brain and nervous system. In a lot of the cases that Sacks dealt with‚ there was nothing he was able to do to heal the patients. His goal was to find a way to live with and accept their condition as well as possible. Sacks enjoyed dealing with cases mostly about experiences of
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