anthro methods and fieldwork

7. "salvage ethnography",

a. Salvage ethnography is the recording of the practices and folklore of cultures threatened with extinction, including as a result of modernization. It is generally associated with the American anthropologist Franz Boas

10. interview (structured and unstructured),

a. Structured Interview is one in which a particular set of predetermined questions are prepared by the interviewer in advance. Unstructured Interview refers to an interview in which the questions to be asked to the respondents are not set in advance

13. census,

a. The collection of demographics data about the culture being studied

2. fieldwork,

a. The practice in which an anthropologists is immersed in the daily life of a culture in order to collect data and test cultural hypothesis

16. proxemic analysis,

a. The study of how people in different cultures use space

6. Salvage anthropology

a. is related to salvage ethnography, but often refers specifically to the collection of cultural artifacts and human remains, rather than the general collection of data and images.

19. Project Camelot

An aborted us army research project designed to study the cause of civil unrest and violence in developing countries, created controversy among anthropologists about whether the us government was using them as spies.

14. ethnographic mapping,

a. A data gathering tool that locates where people being studied live, where they keep their livestock, where public buildings are located etc. in order to determine how that culture interacts with its environment

9. participant observation,

a. A fieldwork method in which the cultural anthropologist lives with the people under study and observes their everyday activities

4. key informants,

a. A key informant is an expert source of information. The key informant technique is an ethnographic research method which was originally used in the field of cultural anthropology and is now being used more widely in other branches of social science investigation.

3. informants,

a. A person who provides info about his or her culture to the entnographic fieldworker

18. culture shock,

a. A psychological disorientation experienced when attempting to operate in a radically different cultural environment

15. genealogical method,

a. A technique of collecting data in which the anthropoglots writes down all the kin of an informant

8. reflexive ethnography,

a. A type of ethnography, associated with postmodernism, that focuses more on the interaction between the ethnographer and the info than on scientific objectivity

5. "armchair" anthropology,

a. Armchair anthropology means that one does not do one's own fieldwork. Instead, armchair anthropologists base their theories on other people's ethnographies.

1. (ethnography and ethnology,

a. Ethnology is comparitive study of cultural differences and similarties b. Enthnography- anthropoligical description of a particular contemporary culture by means of driect field work

12. behavioral data,

a. Information collected in a fieldwork situation that describes what a person does

11. attitudinal data,

a. Information collected in a fieldwork situation that describes what a person thinks, believes, or feels

17. event analysis,

a. Photographic documentation of events such as weddings, funerals, and festivals in the culture under investigation