At what extent has the researcher gone beyond the legal limits of obtaining information? For example with Venkatesh in Gang Leader for a Day is it to far when Sudhir rides along while his key informant is conducting gang activity? Currently in Ethnography it is hard to define the way an ethnographer is supposed to interact with their subjects in their fieldwork process. Many ethnographers are expanding on the way they interact with individuals in who can provide information on the subject at hand
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tourism planning‚ Journal of Travel Research‚ 37(1)‚ 3-11. THE ROLE OF ETHNOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES IN TOURISM PLANNING ABSTRACT This paper discusses ethnography and its application as a tool for tourism planning. It is suggested that different methodologies can complement each other in complex planning situations‚ and that ethnography offers advantages at particular stages of the planning process. Furthermore‚ planners can better understand planning issues by using ethnographic techniques
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Canada and the United States. These two ethnographies highlight the discrepancy between the views of marginalization and the actual methods deployed to marginalize; however‚ what De León and Simpson hope to bring to attention are the forms with which each respective group resists said marginalization. Here is where the commonality is found between the two authors’ main arguments. Audra Simpson on one hand writes the entirety of Mohawk Interruptus as an ethnography of refusal. By doing so‚ she highlights
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Burt’s Bees: Discovering Who Really Talks About Your Brand SDL engaged Burt’s Bees in order to identify key target audiences for the brand‚ understand their key motivators to purchase‚ and discover the best channels to reach them through. Virtual ethnography was the methodology SDL chose to use in order to identify these key targets because it provides a nuanced understanding and deep context into the types of conversations happening across social channels. the challenge SDL wanted to identify ways
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younha Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments is an ethnography on the Bedouin tribes of Egypt‚near the Western Desert and Libyan border. Abu-Lughod did her fieldwork between 1978 and1980‚ and lived with a host family in a particular Awlad ‘Ali (Bedouin) community.Theanthropologist had initially planned to study “the patterning and meaning of interpersonalrelations‚ in particular between men and women.” (25) However‚ Abu-Lughod soon discoveredthe prevalence of informal poetry performances by many
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Editions Anthropology we will discuss what makes the Yanomamo primitive. Using various definitions of the word primitive‚ as well as psychology of understanding we will define what it truly means to be primitive. We will look at the Problems with Ethnography which may lead to the belief of a population being Primitive as well. It is thought that the Yanomamo are Primitive in nature‚ but at a closer look we will question this assumption and prove it wrong. It is not the Yanomamo themselves which are
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Midterm Paper Urban Semester Summer 2013 The Essence of Ethnographic Methods The Essence of Ethnographic Methods Ethnography focuses on observed and experienced participation in the socio-cultural system. This includes research carried out in various communities and cultural groups‚ where main observations are made about social conditions of the members of these groups and how these conditions are expressed in their daily living. There are some essential central points
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Interpersonal Ethnography Melissa M Mata Communication II November 14‚ 2012 Fresno City College Interpersonal Ethnography The concept studied in this ethnography was based on my own interpersonal communication over a 24 hour period. Interpersonal communication is the process of sending and receiving information between two or more people. When studying my interpersonal communication I will be addressing characteristics‚ patterns‚ emotions and encounters displayed over the time period
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References: Bourgois‚ P. (1991). Confronting the Ethics of Ethnography: Lessons from fieldwork in Central America. In F. Harrison (Ed.)‚ Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving further toward an anthropology of liberation. Washington‚ DC: Association of Black Anthropologists‚ American Anthropological Association. Kalow‚
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and emic-orientated styles are two different styles that applied anthropologists use in their field work. The etic-orientated approach is a perspective that in ethnography uses concepts and categories for the anthropologists culture to describe another culture. (Ferraro/Andretta) The emic-orientated approach is a viewpoint in ethnography that uses the concepts and categories that are relevant and meaningful to the culture under analysis (Ferraro/Andreatta). There has been much debate on whether the
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