Providing an in depth understanding from an anthropological perspective of ethnography and fieldwork

Food and food habits are ingrained in the minds of almost all human beings. In my own life, experience with food is perhaps the oldest memory I have – of sitting in the kitchen floor in my grandmother’s house eating fruits or dumplings. It was always a messy affair but no food experience has matched childhood meals at my grandmother. It is from these early beginning experiences with food that my food habits began to form and morphed into what I consider my food habits today.

Lecture notes from the second-year Sociology course: on Urban Sociology and social problems. The course was held during Semester 1, Block 1 by Dr P.J. (Pamela) Prickett at the University of Amsterdam. Following up on social and spatial inequalities, gentrification, alienation, global cities, urbanism, ethnography. Working with authors such as Simmel, the Chicago School of Sociology, Jane Jacobs, Elijah Anderson.

CONTENT: What is unique about ethnographic fieldwork? Why do we conduct this kind of research? How did the ideas of fieldwork develop? How do anthropologists write ethnography? What moral and eth ical concerns guide anthropologists in their research and writing? How are fieldwork strategies changing in response to globalization?

Characteristics of the different methods were described across a range of dimensions in a matrix. This matrix formed the basis of the analysis described below. Results Two-hundred and three papers were found. Amongst the many syntheses of qualitative research, nine distinct methods of synthesis were identified. These are: meta-narrative, critical interpretive synthesis, meta-study, meta-ethnography, grounded formal theory, thematic synthesis, textual narrative synthesis, framework synthesis an...

Characteristics of the different methods were described across a range of dimensions in a matrix. This matrix formed the basis of the analysis described below. Results Two-hundred and three papers were found. Amongst the many syntheses of qualitative research, nine distinct methods of synthesis were identified. These are: meta-narrative, critical interpretive synthesis, meta-study, meta-ethnography, grounded formal theory, thematic synthesis, textual narrative synthesis, framework synthesis and ...

The following are first year compulsory undergraduate module for a BA in Anthropology. Very well written and containing professor's remarks, information from slides and information from readings. Whether you are an anthropology student, or you have an interest in sociological and anthropological tools for elaborating useful and critical ethnography, these notes will prove helpful.

Research Methods 2 dives deeper into the qualitative side of research, including interviewing techniques, participant observation, positioning, sampling, ethnography. It is part of the ILS program of BUAS Breda.

SOME OF THE CONTENT INCLUDE: How the Culture Concept Developed in Anthropology? Anthropology Emerges Early Evolutionary Frameworks E. B. Tylor-Great Britain Lewis Henry Morgan – US Charles Dar win Edward Burnett Tylor Definition: “culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired b y man as a member of society” The Savage Becomes the Primitive Central t...

Summary of all the readings (week 1-6) from the second year sociology course 'Globalising Cultures'. Guillen, Mauro. 2001. Is globalization civilizing, destructive, or feeble? A critique of five key debates in the social science literature. Annual Review of Sociology 27: 235-260. Knowles, Caroline. "The flip-flop trail and fragile globalization." Theory, Culture & Society 32.7-8 (2015): 231-244. Wolf, E.R., 2010. Europe and the People without History. Univ of California Press, pp. 40-41 an...