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Cultural Anthropology and Ethnographic Method

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Humanities

Work through fieldwork method, kinship, cultural relativism and research ethics using evidence from ethnographic cases

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Quizzes

Write multiple-choice items whose stems are short passages of ethnographic description, field-note excerpts, or method scenarios drawn from the source material. Ask what analytic concept the passage illustrates, what a described method can and cannot show, which kinship or descent principle is operating, or which ethical obligation is at stake. Cover participant observation, emic and etic accounts, thick…

Tests

Weight the assessment 30 percent multiple-choice, 30 percent short answer, 40 percent essay. Short answers of five to eight sentences should ask the student to translate an emic account into an etic analysis and say what is lost, to diagram in words the kinship relation a passage implies and name the principle, or to state what a described fieldwork design cannot establish. The essay requires a contestable thesis…

Flashcards

One concept per card, each anchored to a case or a method consequence. Permitted patterns: a concept card whose front is a term and whose back gives a one-sentence definition plus one named ethnographic case from the source material where it appears; a contrast card whose front asks how two confusable ideas differ, such as emic versus etic, relativism versus relativism as method versus moral relativism, matrilineal…

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