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In "Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes", Emerson, Fretz and Shaw stress the importance of method in that method cannot be separated from "findings".(p.11). The two go hand in hand, as how we go about finding something determines what we will in fact ...
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Now I will be commenting on my next reading: "Writing Ethnographic span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Fieldnotes/span", by Robert M. Emerson, Rachel l. span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"Fretz/span and Linda L. Shaw.br /I read this book right after I had read Michael Agar's "The Professional ...
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Anthropological Fieldwork
Now I will be discussing another book that I read called ANTHROPOLOGICAL LOCATIONS: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, by span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Akhil/span Gupta and James Ferguson.br /br /In the introduction, they say that methods are taken for granted ...
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Continuation of blog entry and starting at page 98.br /Agar talks about methods of ethnography being heavily influenced by the socialization history of every individual ethnographer. All aspects of method including what one sees, what one hears, what one records ...
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Agar makes one very important point regarding train of thought during an ethnographic project. I think that it has a lot to do with ethnocentrism as well. He says to attempt a clear mind when studying the "other" and to ...
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Anthropological Fieldwork
"The Professional Stranger", by Michael Agar, was by far my favorite book out of the ones that I have read for this class. He has a very open and honest way of discussing methods and problems with methods in anthropology. ...
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An interesting theme that i encountered in my readings is fieldwork acting as not just fieldwork but as an autobiography. In chapter 4, Knowles says that: "the process of revealing the other also brings the self clearly into view as ...
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Anthropological Fieldwork
There are some interesting and seemingly valid points that are discussed in my various readings concerning fieldwork at "home", or rather in the culture that the anthropologist grew up in. In "Constructing the Field", span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Caputo's/span opinion on the ...
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ETHICSbr /Ethics are a very complicated issue and Agar seems to think that “…the guidelines for the protection of human subjects were not designed with ethnography in mind”.(p.107). Even though “true objectivity” cannot be achieved, it is still desired and ...
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There is a very important issue regarding anthropological fieldwork and that is the question of OBJECTIVITY. From all of my readings in this course, I have concluded that objectivity was something that was expected, desired and constantly span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"striven/span ...
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Anthropological Fieldwork
One thing related to the concept of the "field" as well as the "other" as discussed by Amit is the lack of undiscovered areas of our world. There are no more "exotic and undiscovered" places that once made anthropological fieldwork ...
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Anthropological Fieldwork
I think that the issue of redefining what constitutes the "field" in anthropology when considering "home" and "away" leads us to compare methods and subject matter between the two disciplines of anthropology and sociology. We seem to agree on the ...
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strongAt 'home' and 'away': /strongemReconfiguring the field for late twentieth-century anthropology:/embr /em/embr /Virginia span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Caputo/span discusses what constitutes a "field" when an ethnographer attempts to conduct span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"fieldwork/span at "home". She thinks that if only some of the ...
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Anthropological Fieldwork
"To overdetermine fieldwork practices is therefore to undermine the very strength of ethnography, the way in which it deliberately leaves openings for unanticipated discoveries and directions. If in cleaving to a methodological orthodoxy, anthropologists a priori limit rather than leave ...
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Anthropological Fieldwork
Mobility of the "other" in combination with increasing globalization leads us to re-evaluate the definition of fieldwork. Mobilization and globalization change the concept of the "other".br /br /Amit introduces the discussion of doing fieldwork at "home". If the ethnographer is ...
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strongConstructing the Field/strong:em Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World, /emedited by Vered Amitbr /br /Amit describes the difference between Anthropology and Sociology to be the practice of field work via participant observation. Could one also say that the difference between ...
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