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ethnographyStudy of living cultures, using anthropological techniques like participant observation (where the anthropologist lives in the society being studied) and a reliance on informants. Ethnography has provided much data of use to archaeologists as analogies. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As a sound piece of anthropological fieldwork it will also hold interest both for fellow specialists and for anyone considering the role of academics and intellectuals in Asia. For the piece itself, which both employs and undermines anthropological fieldwork techniques, is intrinsically reflexive. The situation is this: although there is an enormous amount of writing on the anthropological fieldwork experiences of westerners within developing countries, relatively little focuses on experience within developed countries such as the United States of America. |
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