Hello Steemians,
I am posting these notes for you because it will greatly aid and help understand my upcoming Steemit post in regards to an Ethnography I did of a rural or isolated villager's life growing up throughout childhood before migrating to a modern or first world country. It will be broken up into parts.
Field Notes Pt. 1
Field Notes Pt. 2.
Ethnography: Legal Immigrants: Upbringing of An Isolated and Rural Villager's Life
Sincerely,
Raquel
*Interpretive (emic) versus Cultural Materialism (etic)
Etic
Data collected according Quantitative
to the outsider’s researcher’s Surveys
questions and categories Closed-ended questions
“deductive”; goal of being Interviews (structured)
able to test a hypothesis Scientific Method
preferred by cultural materialists
vs.
Emic
Seeks to understand what insiders Unstructured
say and understand about their Inductive, Collect Data, analyze then Conclude
culture, their categories of thinking.
Preferred by interpretivist
“inductive” not hypothesis driven
Qualitative
Talking to people
What are the 6 stages of fieldwork and fieldwork techniques?
6 Stages
- Project Selection – choose a topic and site
- Research Design – inductive or deductive? Description hypothesis.
Site selection and techniques to collect data. Mixed methods? Team project? - Data Collection – build rapport, give gifts
Fieldwork – interviews, questionnaires, pictures, audio, video, life, history, texts, mapping, field notes, journaling (for possible culture shock) - Data Analysis – Content Analysis, Patterns
- Draw Conclusion – explain why?
- Write Ethnography – publish
Techniques
- Interviews
- Questionnaires - field notes, journal writing
- Watching and asking - tape recording, photography, video
- Life history
- Texts/historical sources
- Team projects
Pfeiffer, Jill . "Fieldwork & Techniques in Anthropology." Lecture.