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Urgent Anthropology
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Ethnographic research that documents endangered cultures; also known as salvage ethnography.
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Acculturation
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the often disruptive process of culture change occurring in traditional societies coming in contact w more powerful state societies, in particular industrialized or capitalist societies.
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Advocacy Anthropology
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Research that is community-based and politically involved.
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"Globascope"
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a worldwide interconnected landscape w multiple intertwining and overlapping peoples and cultures on the move.
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"Ethnoscapes"
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geographically dispersed individuals who spend part of their lives on cyberspace.
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Multi-sited Ethnography
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The investigation and documentation of peoples and cultures embedded in the larger structures of a globalizing world, utilizing a range of methods in various locations of time and space.
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Ethnographic fieldwork
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Extended on-location reseach to gather detailed and in-depth information on a society's customary ideas, values, and practices though participation in its collective social life.
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Key Consultant
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A member of the society being studied, who provides info that helps researchers understand the meaning of what they observe; early anthropologists referred to as informants.
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Quantitative Data
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Statistical/measurable info, such as demographic composition, the types and quantities of crops grown, ratio of spouses born and raised w/i or outside the community.
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Qualitative Data
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Nonstatistical info such as personal life stories and customary beliefs and practices.
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Informal Interviews
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An unstructured, open-ended conversation in everyday life.
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Formal Interviews
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A structured question/answer session carefully notated as it occurs and based on prepared questions.
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Eliciting Devices
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An activity or object used to draw out individuals and encourage them to recall and share info.
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Digital Ethnography
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the use of digital technologies (audio, visual) for the collection, analysis, and representation of ethnographic data.
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Ethnohistory
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a study of cultures of the recent past through oral histories, accounts of explorers, missionaries, and traders, and through analysis of records such as land titles, birth and death records, and other archival materials.
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Theory
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In science an explanation of natural phenomena, supported by a reliable body of data.
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Doctrine
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An assertion of opinion or belief formally handed down by an authority as true and indisputable. Also known as dogma.
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Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)
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A vast collection of cross-indexed ethnographic and archaeological data cataogued by cultural characteristics and geographic location. Archived in about 300 libraries.
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Idealist Perspective
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A theoretical approach stressing the primacy of superstructure in cultural research and analysis.
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Materialist perspective
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A theoretical approach stressing the primacy of infrastructure (material conditions) in cultural research and analysis.
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