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  1. Sep 2016
    1. Fieldwork, then, involves the disciplined study of what the world is like to people who have learned to see, hear, speak, think, and act in ways that are dif-ferent
      • the fieldwork for an ethnographer
      • they learn from the people rather than just studying them
    2. Ethnography is the work of describing a culture

      Ethnography – work of describing a culture The goal of an ethnographer is “to grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world.”

    3. We need a theory of meaning and a spe-cific methodology designed for the investigation of it
    4. The ethnographer sees artifacts and natu-ral objects but goes beyond them to discover what meanings people assign to these objects.

      the true work of ethnographer

    5. understand another way of life from the native point of view.

      the work of ethnographic fieldwork is to understand and observe new cultures

  2. Apr 2016