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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in the landscape of modern anthropological fieldwork? A primary objective of the modern ethnographer is to glean insights into the ways people relate to and interact with one another and the world around them. Through participant-observation‚ Malinowski (1922) offered a valuable tool with which to uncover these insights and understandings‚ the ethnographer. The ethnographer as research tool has become the basis of much modern anthropological research. As a method‚ it was a radical departure from
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What was the significance of Malinowski ’s Discussion of the Kula? It is widely accepted that Malinowski was the founder of true anthropological fieldwork and this is a view shared by many anthropologists. An example of one such anthropologist was Adam Kuper. In 1973 Kuper undertook the writing of an analysis of the complete history of social anthropology in which he speaks comparatively highly of Malinowski. "Malinowski has a strong claim to being founder of the profession of social anthropology
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Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown are both regarded as functionalists with foundations in Emile Durkheim’s studies‚ they differ in the ways they approach functionalism and their contributions to anthropology. Malinowski’s specific brand of functionalism
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anthropology‚ supported evolutionism/uni-lineal evolution * Franz Boaz- the father of American anthropology‚ supported empiricism * Margaret Mead- Boaz’s student‚ wrote about the sexual revolution * Borshay Lee- studied the !Kung San from Africa * Zora Neal Hurston- one of Boaz’s students‚ an African-American folklorist * Bronislaw Malinowski- the father of fieldwork‚ said anthropologists need to learn the language of the people‚ supported functionalism * Mary and Loius Leakey- husband
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Research Topic Precursor & Personality & Culture Movement Is the theory of cultural relativism by Franz Boas still applicable today? Course: Intercultural Business Communications Submitted to: Mr. Jammal Submitted by: Meron Ghebremicael (185991) Submission date: XXXXXXXX Table of contents Table of contents 2 Acknowledgements 3 Introduction 4 The concept of culture 5 Well known personalities of this movement 6 Franz Boas as precursor of cultural anthropology 7 1.0 Life of Franz Boas
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18 islands to trade white shell armbands and red shell necklaces (Malinowski‚ 1932). Malinowski describes that the necklaces include gold-rimmed oyster shells and are traded in the clockwise direction‚ while the armbands consisting of pendants and beads are traded counterclockwise. The contributors continue passing along these shells until they make a full circulation‚ often taking longer than 2-5 years (Malinowski‚ 1932). Malinowski was bewildered how this “simple action – the passing from hand to
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people. Derived from the Greek word anthropos. Linguistics and archaeology are also fields associated with anthropology. Three Main Fields of Study Cultural Anthropology: Examining and comparing the cultures of living people * Margaret Mead (1901-1978) * Began her career studying the cultures of the pacific islands * Earliest investigations took place in the islands of Samoa * Specifically compared the adolescent experience in Samoa and America * Believed
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group unity. By worshipping together‚ people have a sense of commitment and belonging and individuals are united into a group with shared values - thus social solidarity is reinforced‚ deviant behaviour is restrained and social change restricted. Malinowski agrees with Durkheim that religion promotes
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http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/gift [accessed: 4 December 2013]. It is this definition that has found itself at the centre of anthropological debate. Bronislaw Malinowski first coined the term ‘pure gift’ whilst conducting his ethnographic research in the Trobriand Islands. A ‘pure gift’ according to Malinowski was ‘an act in which an individual gives an object or renders a service without expecting a return’ (1922: 176). This was heavily criticised by revolutionary theorist Marcel
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