Unit 2

• • Armchair anthropology:
  • Involves the collection, study, and analysis of writings of the missionaries , explorers and colonist who has sustained contact with non-western peoples. They use these documents to make comparisons and generalizations about the ways of life of various groups.
• • Culture shock:
  • The feeling of disorientation in the initial stages of fieldwork when an anthropologist is adjusting to a new language, beliefs, food or even climate.
• • Emic perspective:
  • "insider's perspective" To understand the view of the informants.
• • Essentialism:
  • The act of creating generalizations or stereotypes about the behaviour or culture of a group of people.
• • Ethnographic fieldwork:
  • A research method, the anthropologist have a long term engagements with a group of people.
• • Ethnography:
  • A written description and analysis of a particular group of people, usually based upon anthropological fieldwork.
• • Etic perspective:
  • The analysis of an aspect of culture using comparative categories, explanations, and interpretation from the perspective of an outside observer.
• • Informed consent:
  • The process where the research participants understand the goals, methods and potential outcomes of the research process and give permission for the researcher to conduct said research.
• • Multi-sited fieldwork:
  • The process of connecting localized experiences of fieldwork with broader, global processes. It necessitates understanding various issues from multiple "sites" or perspective.
• • Participation observation:
  • An element of fieldwork that can involve participating in daily tasks and observing daily interactions among a particular group.
• • Qualitative research:
  • Aim to explore rather than measure, various phenomena, often through forms of observation such as interviews, focus groups, and direct participant observation.
• • Quantitative research:
  • Involves the generation of statistical data. Surveys and censuses.
• • Rapport:
  • A feeling of affinity, friendship, and responsibility between an anthropologist and an informant. It is often developed through the use of long-term ethnographic fieldwork
• • Representation:
  • The way people are depicted in writing or through images. Anthropologist should be conscious of the fact that when they write about a group of people they are constructing particular representation that may have a positive or negative long-term effects for a group of people.
• • Salvage anthropology:
  • An approach to anthropology where the anthropologist witness the extinction or assimilation of indigenous people in the world, so they rapidly document the oral stories, songs, histories and other traditions of indigenous peoples before they disappeared.