Anthropology 337 - Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork: Researching and Writing Culture

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Whitman College

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not offered 2008-09 The goal of successful ethnographic fieldwork has been summed up by one prominent anthropologist as "to figure out what the devil [societies] think they are up to." But how do anthropologists exactly do this This course, run as a workshop, looks at how cultural anthropologists devise research projects, collect data, and present their findings in ethnographic form. The first two-thirds of the course will be devoted to a hands-on exploration of various ethnographic methods. Students will select a "field site" to practice ethnographic methods with the culmination of their work being a written ethnography about a group of people or cultural phenomena. Methods will include: mapping, linguistic and analysis, analysis of ritual behavior, ethnographic interviewing, and participant observation. During the last one-third of the course we will analyze new and alternative strategies of writing ethnography and the debates surrounding th em. Prerequisi te: Anthropology 102 or consent of instructo

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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