Anthropology
Assignments: Anthropology
There are two research assignments for the course in Cultural Anthropology.
1. Visit Univ of Penn Museum, write up findings. Assignment instruction detail
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2. Do original research as a participant observer of the cultural customs, traditions and ceremonies of a group that is not one to which you belong. .Research the group, go and be among them for awhile, research and write up an ethnography of that group. Consult this guidance.
OR
2. Do research on your own kin group (your family and relatives). Do a family tree, aquire as much data as you can about your kinfolk, and look at what you have in common, your common culture - beliefs, residence/geography, work, health, language, technology/tool kits - and maybe what you no longer have in common w one another. Think about what glues you together as a people. Consult this guidance.
What's an Ethnography?
It is a report about the ways and customs of a group of people - a group
that understands themself to be a "we". It is a story about
the way that a particular group of people construct their lives.
For further discussion of Ethnography, Ethnographic research
Dr David Garson, North Carolina State
Penn's Center for Urban Ethnography
An extensive bibliography on Anthropological Field Methods by Borut Telaban