Anthropology & Writing
This is both a method of research and the written product that comes from anthropological fieldwork.
What is ethnography?
This research practice focuses on watching behavior without necessarily participating in it.
What is observation?
Ethical protocol in anthropology for receiving permission from research participants
What is Informed Consent?
This field examines how culture influences resource use, land management, and responses to climate change.
What is environmental anthropology?
What park did we discuss as a field site for how anthropologists might study the different uses of urban space throughout the day by different audiences?
What is Bryant Park?
These are collections of field notes, recordings, photographs, and documents that allow anthropologists to revisit earlier fieldwork.
What are anthropological archives or archival material(s)?
Another name for a research setting in anthropology.
What is a Field Site?
This core ethical rule guides fieldworkers to prioritize the safety and well-being of participants during research design and data collection.
What is do no harm or the do no harm principle?
Believing your culture’s way of doing things is "normal" rather than recognizing it as culturally specific
What is Ethnocentrism?
This concept describes how everyday technologies like smartphones can take on ritual-like importance in modern social life.
What is sacred?
This type of anthropology focuses more on communication and education than direct intervention.
What is public anthropology?
This research method is most similar to a survey because it uses standardized questions and often produces comparable data.
What is a structured interview?
This ethical strategy is often used alongside confidentiality to prevent participants from being identified in published research.
What are pseudonyms?
This economic anthropology concept includes generalized, balanced, and negative types of exchange.
What is reciprocity?
Which company’s program did we study, in which an anthropologist conducted participant observation to study labor conditions from the inside?
What is Amazon's food assistance program?
What anthropology blog site did we study in lecture and class readings?
What is Sapiens?
Unlike photographs, this method relies on the researcher’s in-the-moment interpretation and highlights what they consider important.
What are field sketches or sketches?
Anthropologists must submit their research plans to this body when studying living people to ensure ethical standards are met.
What is the Institutional Review Board or IRB?
This perspective in anthropology argues that places are not just physical locations but socially and culturally constructed environments.
What is anthropology of place?
This system of exchange is not primarily about economic profit, but about building prestige and social relationships among island communities.
What is the Kula Ring?
This ethnographic writing strategy takes an existing concept and expands it by showing how it works in a different setting.
What is borrowing and extending?
This method is often criticized for producing inaccurate or biased cultural interpretations due to a lack of firsthand experience in the field.
What is Armchair Ethnography?
This relationship becomes especially important when working with local assistants or community members in long-term fieldwork.
What is a respectful and professional relationship?
Values and beliefs of communities, states, and/or societies that make the imagining of a particular type of media network possible.
What is cultural infrastructure?
This controversial experiment manipulated users’ news feeds to study how online content affects mood without directly informing participants.
What is the Facebook emotional contagion experiment?