Anthropology Chapter 3

Proposal process includes

-A statement of purpose -Details of the mthods -Time parameters -Potential application for the results of the research -a detailed budget

Sampling methods

-Random sample -Stratified random sample -Judgment sample

Ethics in Anthropology

-The primary ethical responsibility for cultural anthropologists is toward people with whom they work -researchers must always be open about the purpose of their projects and their sources of funding. -They must never misrepresent themselves to their informants

Key Informants

A knowledgeable native who plays a major role in teaching the ethnographer about the informant's culture

Functionalists

Holds in part that a culture works, or functions, by virtue of all its segments working together.

Cultural ecology

Holds that cultural systems should be viewed as adaptive interactive systems between people and their environments.

Emic

Insider's view

Etic

Ousider's view

What is the first step in an anthropology project?

Research proposals, funding, and budgets

Participant observation

The process of an anthropologist doing ethnographic fieldwork

When is the majority of the work done by an ethnographer?

When he returns from the field.