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3.9: Chapter 2: Doing Fieldwork: Methods in Cultural Anthropology Study Guide

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    Fieldwork: Methods in Cultural Anthropology

    Use this study guide as you read the selected chapter, to help you focus on the important terms, concepts, people and places. This will also help you prepare for the quiz on this chapter.

    • Argonauts of the Western Pacific
    • Coming of Age in Samoa
    • Contested Identity
    • Cultural relativism
    • Diaspora
    • Emic
    • Ethical Guidelines
    • Ethnocentrism
    • Ethnographic fieldwork sites
    • Ethnographic research strategy
    • Ethnography
    • Etic
    • Four-field approach to anthropology
    • Genealogical Method
    • Holistic Perspective
    • Indigenous
    • Inductive and Deductive Research Strategies
    • Informed Consent
    • Interpretive Anthropology
    • Key informants
    • Kinship
    • Kula Ring
    • Land tenure
    • Life History
    • Malinowski
    • Margaret Mead
    • Noble savage
    • Participant
    • Observation
    • Polyvocalic Texts
    • Qualitative: anthropological research
    • Quantitative: anthropological research
    • Remittances
    • Rosaldo
    • Salvage Anthropology
    • Thick description
    • Undocumented
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