Exam 3: Fieldwork and Ethnography

Discuss Horace Miner's ethnography "Body Rituals among the Nacirema." What is the content of the ethnography? What was Miner's purpose in writing it,and how did he approach that purpose?

Consider an assembly of thousands of people,all screaming,yelling,and drinking,while a smaller group in the center of the assembly area fights over the remains of a dead pig.Why might this be seen as significant in anthropological terms if it were part of the research described in Horace Miner's interpretations of Nacirema culture?

How has the anthropological practice of sharing ethnographic information on particular communities with nonanthropological institutions such as the military been characterized in the discipline of anthropology?

Anthropologists make great efforts to protect informants' anonymity

Franz Boas (1858-1942)is credited with developing the concept of cultural relativism.At that time,this approach was quite radical because it called for a perspective of culture that considered each culture

Making the strange seem more familiar is an overarching goal of

Two different anthropologists write about the same people at different times.The first makes detailed field notes and conducts surveys.The second also makes good notes and talks to a lot of people,but does not do any surveys.When they publish their results,the first anthropologist's book has every single detail of his or her work,and the second anthropologist's book has a lot of the raw interviews as part of the text.The second book can be said to be more

Because she has been a community activist and advocate for her research subjects,and founded Organs Watch as a watchdog organization,Nancy Scheper-Hughes's research could be considered a form of

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology has been criticized for being ahistorical,and one of the major shortcomings of his work was due to

Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard

Lewis Henry Morgan

Sydney Mintz conducted research on the nature of sugar production in Puerto Rico in the 1970s and 1980s,which looked at the way local communities were affected by capitalism.His work also helped to illustrate the problems arising from

The author writes that the roots of cultural anthropology and ethnographic fieldwork lie in

What are the core moral and ethical concerns of anthropological research? Why are they necessary?

A multi-sited ethnography might be used to understand the nature of an urban legend-a repeated variation of some bizarre event around the world-by visiting many different countries and conducting interviews with participants.An anthropologist seeking a similar answer,but lacking the resources to move about easily,might also conduct a multi-sited ethnography through the use of

The key difference between Henry Lewis Morgan and Edward Burnett Tylor,two early anthropologists,is that Tylor conducted his research

Sidney Mintz

Explain why ethnography is considered both a science and an art.

In studying the very poor,our understanding of their lives may be difficult.As Nancy Scheper-Hughes discovered,one of the more useful ways to decode radically different cultures is through a careful examination of

Define zeros and explain their significance for ethnographers.