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Participant Observation One of many Field Methods

Participant Observation Ethnographers/Anthropologist do not study animals in laboratory cages Ethnographers/Anthropologist subjects are humans Not in their procedures to manipulate, control or induce Participant Observation

Participant Observation Take part in the community as we observe it While studying humans you cannot be a detached observer Take part in events & process Observe, comprehend, experience, and learn Participant Observation

Participant Observation Napoleon Chagnon Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon is an American anthropologist, professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri Studying the Yanomamo Participant Observation

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