Anthropology Feildwork

Anthropology Feildwork

1. Considerations

   • Ethical
     • Consent
     • Repeatability
   • Practical
     • Cost
     • distance
     • Language
   • Theoretical
     • Bias

2. History of

   • Before feildwork, most anthropologists worked off accounts of explorers and missionaries, these were know as armchair anthropologists
   • Boas and mailinowski developed and popularised the ideas of feildwork over secondary research

3. Importance of

   • Gives more vailidity to studies
   • More reliable

4. Methods

   • Primary
     • observation
       • Is less open to interpretation than other types
     • Questionaire
       • Cheap and easy, can gather data fast
     • Interview
       • Cheap and easy, and can follow up questions
   • Secondary