2. Using These Slides These PowerPoint slides have been designed for use by students and instructors using the Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity textbook by Conrad Kottak. These files contain short outlines of the content of the chapters, as well as selected photographs, maps, and tables. Students may find these outlines useful as a study guide or a tool for review. Instructors may find these files useful as a basis for building their own lecture slides or as handouts. Both audiences will notice that many of the slides contain more text than one would use in a typical oral presentation, but it was felt that it would be better to err on the side of a more complete outline in order to accomplish the goals above. Both audiences should feel free to edit, delete, rearrange, and rework these files to build the best personalized outline, review, lecture, or handout for their needs.
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5. In the Field C h a p t e r 2 This chapter introduces students to the field methods and research methods employed by anthropologists. It pays special attention to the field methods of ethnographers and archaeologists, to survey research, and to funding and ethics in anthropology.
12. Ethnographic Techniques Anthropologists such as Christie Kiefer typically form personal relationships with cultural consultants, such as this Guatemalan weaver. Photo Credit: Peggy / Yoran Kahana / Peter Arnold, Inc.
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16. Bronislaw Malinowski Here, Bronislaw Malinowski is seated with villagers of the Trobriand Islands. Photo Credit: British Library of Political & Economic Science London School of Economics and Political Science
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27. Excavation: Preparation Archaeologists use grids, such as this grid in Teotihuican, Mexico, in order to record the location of artifacts recovered during excavation. Photo Credit: Kenneth Garrett / National Geographic
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29. Excavation: Stratigraphy James Adovasio records the stratigraphy of the Meadowcroft rock shelter site in southwestern Pennsylvania. Photo Credit: Scott Goldsmith
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39. Survey Research Comparison between Ethnography and Survey Research ETHNOGRAPHY SURVEY RESEARCH is the study whole, functioning communities is the study a small sample of a larger community is usually based on firsthand fieldwork during which information is collected after a good, friendly working relationship, based on personal contact, is established between researcher and informants is often conducted with little to no personal contact between study subjects and researchers as interviews are frequently conducted by assistants over the phone or in printed form is generally interested in studying all aspects of a the informants’ lives (holistic) usually focused on a small number of variables, such as ones that influence voting, rather than on the totality of people’s lives
40. Survey Research Comparison between Ethnography and Survey Research (continued) ETHNOGRAPHY SURVEY RESEARCH tends to be conducted outside the First (industrial) World, among communities that do not read or write is normally carried out in modern nations , where most people are literate, permitting respondents to fill in their own questionnaire makes little use of statistics since the societies being investigated tend to be smaller and less diverse is heavily dependent upon statistical analyses in order to make inferences regarding a large and diverse study community, based on data collected from a small subset of that community