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Define the principal research methods of sociocultural anthropology, including participant observation, life history and in-depth interviewing, analysis of archival materials and cultural artefacts, and audiovisual approaches.
1. A general survey of research methods in anthropology. 2. A hands on course focusing on behavioral measurement in naturalistic (i.e. field) settings that are useful in empirically answering a variety of questions of anthropological interest. These questions include, for example, shifting patterns of work and leisure, changes in the division of
Syllabus. 1. Anthropology and Ethnography: What does it mean to be an anthropological researcher? 2. Searching and making a field: village, city, theme, global, multi-sited, mobile, un-sited3. ‘Etic’/’emic’, micro-macro; local-global: ‘small places, big issues’, home-and-away; Unpacking anthropological paradigms. 4.
1. Formulate productive research questions within anthropological frameworks; 2. Apply various research techniques and methods to gather research data, including writing ethnographic field notes, collecting documentary photographs, participant observation, and conducting various types of ethnographic interview. 3.
This course is designed to teach the methods and theories of anthropology primarily through the examination of ethnography. The course proceeds as a history of the discipline, illustrating the ways in which anthropological thought, and method, changed over time.
Develop a firm understanding of major contemporary debates in anthropology, and their broader social implications. Gain experience with ethnographic research methods, and an appreciation of their historical development and epistemological underpinnings.
• Define a research problem and design an appropriate data collection proposal • Apply anthropological research methods to a variety of research contexts individually and/or in collaborative teams • Carry out a wide range of ethnographic data collection strategies including observational
