PVM62 - Ethnographic Research

• 0 Standard Tuition Fee
• 4
  Credit Points
• 0.125 EFT 
  
• 8
  AQF level
• evangelism missiolUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

EM609 Cultural Anthropology or equivalent

Corequisites

Nil

Learning outcomes

A. Know and understand

(a) Describe the concept and methodology of research methods in anthropology with special emphasis on ethnographic research (b) Know how to conduct a minor research by using participation observations (c) Know how to conduct a minor research by using ethnographic interviews (d) Master the skill of collecting and analyzing information using ethnographic research methods (e) Write up ethnography (f) Identify issues of applying ethnographic research in cultural learning (g) Critically Evaluate the problem of applying ethnographic research in cultural learning

Content

Content: 1. Perspectives: a. Research methods in anthropology: different approaches to anthropological research, the difference between qualitative & quantitative research b. Research design c. Research ethnic in anthropology d. Ethnography & culture e. Issues in Ethnographic research 2. Information collection: a. Participant observations b. Ethnographic interviews c. Informants & questionnaires d. Making an ethnographic record & writing field notes 3. Information processing: a. Text analysis: domain, taxonomic, componential and theme analysis b. Developing cultural theme c. Writing an ethnography Structure: Lectures, discussion groups, field trips, seminars

Set Readings

Prescribed: Angrosine, M. V., Doing Cultural Anthropology: Projects for Ethnographic Data Collection, 2nd ed., ( Long Grove:Waveland Press, 2006). Angrosine, M. V., Project in Ethnographic Research (Long Grove: Waveland Press, 2004). Fife, W., Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Country & Beyond (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Moore, H. L. & T. Sanders (eds), Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology (Oxford: Blackwell Pub Ltd., 2006). Sanford, V. & A. Angel-ajani (eds), Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy & Activism (USA: Ruters, The State University, 2006). Wolcott, H. F., The Art of Fieldwork, 2nd ed. (New York: Altamira Press, 2005). Classics: Bernard, H. R., Research Methods in Anthropology, 2nd ed. (New York: Altamira Press, 1995). Bernard, H. R. (ed.), Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology (New York: Altamira Press, 1998). Bradburd, D., Being There: The Necessity of Fieldwork (Washington and London: Smithsonian Press, 1998) Clifford, J. & G. Marcus (eds), Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). Emersion, R. M., R. I. Fretz & L. Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1995). Geertz, C., Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author (Standford: Standford University Press, 1988). Spradley, J., Participant Observation (Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, 1980). Spradley, J., The Ethnographic Interview (Fort Worth: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, 1979). Spradley, J. & D. W. McCurdy, Conformity and Conflict: Reading in Cultural Anthropology, 9th ed. (New York: Longman, 1997). Van Maanen, J., Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago & London: Chicago Press, 1988). Weller, S. C. & A. K. Romney, Systematic Data Collection (London: SAGE Publications, 1988). Wolcott, H. F., Ethnography: A Way of Seeing (New York: Altamira Press, 1998). Wolcott, H. F., Writing up Qualitative Research (London: SAGE Publications, 1990).