1. Ethnographic Fieldwork

2. Fieldwork

3. Data Collection Participant-Observation Interviewing Census Taking
Mapping
Document Analysis
Collecting Genealogies
Photography

4. Quantitative data
Quantitative data: Statistical or measurable information, such as demographic composition, the types and quantities of crops grown, or the ratio of spouses born and raised within or outside the community.

5. Qualitative data
Qualitative data: Non-statistical information such as personal life stories and customary beliefs and practices.

6. Participant-observation
Observe and also participate in routine activities in a community over extended period of time

7. Key Informants/Consultants
A member of the society being studied, who provides information that helps researchers understand the meaning of what they observe
Example: Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

8. Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
Richard Lee
!Kung San of the Kalahari desert

9. Interviews Unstructured interviews Structured interviews:
Interviewer asks open-ended questions
interviewees to respond at their own pace in their own words
Structured interviews:
the interviewer asks all informants the same questions, in the same sequence, and under the same set of conditions

10. Some Common Challenges with Doing Fieldwork
Language barrier
Gender bias
Informants not representative
Culture shock

11. Not a Real Fish: The Ethnographer as Inside Outsider

12. Not a Real Fish: The Ethnographer as Inside Outsider
Roger Keesing
Kwaio of the Solomon Islands

13. Anthropology at Home

14. Ethics Anthropologists have obligations to…. The people under study
The local communities
The host governments and their own government
Other members of the scholarly community
Organizations that sponsor research
Their own students

15. Video: Doing Anthropology