Example of Engaged Anthropology
Beatrice Medicine's advocacy for the rights of women, children, Native Americans, and LGBT people
Nancy Scheper-Hughes's founding of Organs Watch, which facilitates collaboration between anthropologists, surgeons, journalists, and more on the issue of human organ trafficking
Not an Example of Engaged Anthropology
E. E. Evans-Pritchard's ethnography of the life of the Sudanese tribe, the Nuer
Christopher Columbus's voyages to the New World, and his accounts of the peoples and cultures he found there
What is the difference between ethnography and fieldwork?
Ethnographic fieldwork is how anthropologists gather data. Fieldwork is the process of immersing oneself in as many aspects of the daily cultural lives of people as possible in order to study their behaviors and interactions.
Why is culture shock such a significant aspect of handling fieldwork situations?
Why is culture shock such a significant aspect of handling fieldwork situations? Culture shock is exceedingly common and occurs to almost every anthropologist, regardless of years of experience. Unstructured Interviews: contain open-ended questions and are paced by the interviewees and not the interviewer.
What question did Brackette Williams Center her fieldwork on?
Anthropologist Brackette Williams centered her fieldwork on the question, "Which social programs best assist homeless individuals toward acquiring adequate housing?" Ethnographic writing relies on a variety of techniques and practices.
What concept is used to describe a kind of disorientation anthropologists may experience when working with cultures different from their own?
Anthropologists conducting fieldwork may experience a particular kind of disorientation from the "strangeness" they discover. Which term is used to describe this experience? Franz Boas is credited with developing the concept of cultural relativism.