scholarly journals Obrazki z terenu albo oniryczne reminiscencje Laboratoriów etnograficznych

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Zowczak
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Teaching Curriculum ◽  
Specific Meaning

I present multi-sensory memories from my field research that keep imbuing encounters with people and other beings with specific meaning. Such memories combine dialogues with pictures, sounds, smells and tastes, and can be conceived of as inspiration underly- ing ethnographic and anthropological research. In this context, I reflect on the method of teaching skills of ethnographic field research within “Ethnographic Laboratories”, a module introduced as part of the teaching curriculum at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw.

scholarly journals Po pierwsze — człowiek. Autoetnografia w kontekście teorii sprawstwa Margaret Archer

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Majbroda
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Relationships ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
A Current ◽  
Tools And Methods

The aim of this article is to show autoethnography in the context of Margaret Archer’s theory of agency. The author’s point of departure is the assumption that autoethnography is not solely a current in socio-cultural anthropology where anthropologists are focused on themselves, nor is it limited to the genre of anthropological literature in which the experiences and emotions of fieldwork researchers are displayed in the foreground. The author shows that autoethnography makes use of the reflectiveness of being in the world that is an immanent characteristic of knowing subjects. A significant part of anthropological praxis also demands from researchers a permanent autoreflexivity. This autoreflexivity concerns the aims of knowing, the course of field research, relationships during it, tools and methods of knowledge, and the cultural, social, and political contexts of practicing anthropology and its consequences. This autoreflexivity is the source of agency. Reflection about ourselves begins with a thought and in an internal conversation; these are the basis of an integral part of anthropological praxis—agency.

scholarly journals Imagining a Maya Archaeology That Is Anthropological and Attuned to Indigenous Cultural Heritage

Heritage ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia McAnany
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Maya Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Unequal Access ◽  
Descendant Communities

Taking an aspirational approach, this article imagines what Maya Archaeology would be like if it were truly anthropological and attuned to Indigenous heritage issues. In order to imagine such a future, the past of archaeology and anthropology is critically examined, including the emphasis on processual theory within archaeology and the Indigenous critique of socio-cultural anthropology. Archaeological field work comes under scrutiny, particularly the emphasis on the product of field research over the collaborative process of engaging local and descendant communities. Particular significance is given to the role of settler colonialism in maintaining unequal access to and authority over landscapes filled with remains of the past. Interrogation of the distinction between archaeology and heritage results in the recommendation that the two approaches to the past be recognized as distinct and in tension with each other. Past heritage programs imagined and implemented in the Maya region by the author and colleagues are examined reflexively.

Social correlates of a linguistic variable:A study in a Spanish village

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan C. Holmquist
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Salient Feature ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Franco Regime ◽  
First Case ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn this study, linguistic and anthropological research methods are employed in investigating the use of one salient feature in the speech of a small community in northern Spain. Though set in rural Spain, the study is of interest both to readers with special interest in Spain and to those concerned mostly with broader possibilities of inference from linguistic data. In the first case, findings provide insight into social change experienced by generations of villagers marked by the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. In the second, data provide evidence that, in this small and relatively homogeneous community, sex and political orientation are factors that influence the use of an established sociolinguistic variable. Speech data used in the study were obtained in a series of recorded interviews conducted by the author. Material of an ethnographic nature was collected during field research over a period of approximately two years. (Linguistic variation, social motivation, Spanish dialectology, Spanish regionalism, Cantabria, montañés)

scholarly journals Visualisation of Intangible Data of the Cultural Heritage in Field Research and Hermeneutic Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Murín
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Visual Data ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Getting Lost ◽  
Intercultural Comparison

ABSTRACT Ethnology and cultural anthropology are characterized by the field research and ethnographic collection of material. Recording and transcription seem to be issues of ethnoscience that have already been resolved many years ago. The relevance of their use in science, e.g. by intercultural comparison,was getting lost with the use of more illustrative and available photo and film recording. Later on, the complicated schemes of interpretation of the empirical knowledge were a burden for the disciplines themselves; they were literally overloaded by sign systems. The issues have been methodologically addressed by resignation to the descriptive documentation. This paper is pointed at the methodological discourse of the visual documentation, visual data analysis and interpretation in research of the cultural heritage.

scholarly journals Three-year Longitudinal Skill-based Teaching Curriculum for All Residents

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Rowat ◽  
Krista Johnson ◽  
Lisa Antes ◽  
Katherine White ◽  
Marcy Rosenbaum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Deliberate Practice ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Internal Medicine Residents ◽  
Teaching Curriculum ◽  
Teaching Responsibilities ◽  
Residents As Teachers

Abstract BACKGROUND. Despite significant teaching responsibilities and national accreditation standards, many residents do not receive adequate instruction in teaching methods. Published reports of residents-as-teachers programs vary from brief one-time exposures to curricula delivered over several months. A majority of interventions described are one or two-day workshops with no clear follow-up or reinforcement of skills. A three-year longitudinal teaching skills curriculum was implemented with these goals: 1) deliver an experiential skill-based teaching curriculum allowing all residents to acquire, practice and implement specific skills; 2) provide spaced skills instruction promoting deliberate practice/reflection; and 3) help residents gain confidence in their teaching skills.METHODS. One hundred percent of internal medicine residents (82/82) participated in the curriculum. Every 10 weeks residents attended a topic-specific experiential skills-based workshop. Each workshop followed the same pedagogy starting with debriefing/reflection on residents’ deliberate practice of the previously taught skill and introduction of a new skill followed by skill practice with feedback. Every year, participants completed: 1) assessment of overall confidence in each skill and 2) retrospective pre-post self-assessment. A post-curriculum survey was completed at the end of three years.RESULTS. Residents reported improved confidence and self-assessed competence in their teaching skills after the first year of the curriculum which was sustained through the three-year curriculum. The curriculum was well received and valued by residents.CONCLUSIONS. A formal longitudinal, experiential skills-based teaching skills curriculum is feasible and can be delivered to all residents. For meaningful skill acquisition to occur, recurrent continuous skill-based practice with feedback and reflection is important.

scholarly journals Global citizenship and the challenge from cultural relativism

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1141
Author(s):  
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Universals ◽  
The World ◽  
Anthropological Research

Do human beings live in a shared world or in several? The traditional answer from social and cultural anthropology has been that although the physical world is uniform, the world as it is perceived by humans is fundamentally and irreducibly diverse, since human worlds are culturally constructed and cultures are unique and particular in character.As a result of this perspective, there has always been a tense relationship between anthropology and universalist claims, as in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. This chapter charts the dialogue and tension between the cultural relativism of classic anthropology and human rights universalism, but the main focus is on the consequences of globalisation for anthropological thinking about diversity and human universals. It is argued that as a direct result of the increased interconnectedness of human societies, classic cultural relativism has become both epistemologically obsolete and normatively objectionable. Although the moral worlds inhabited by humans are still diverse, they are now connected in ways which have implications for the ethics of anthropological research. By discussing a handful of examples, the analytical and moral dilemmas are exposed, and the contrast with mid-20th century anthropology, when the world was still widely seen as ‘an archipelago of cultures’, is made abundantly clear.

Verb “Clean Using Water” In Balinese

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Putu Agus Bratayadnya
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This paper discusses about verb clean activity using water in Balinese. Unlike Indonesian that are only have less variation words to clean human body like mandi and keramas. Balinese has some more variations to say specific meaning for clean using water. From this phenomenon, the verbs are interested to discuss particularly using theory of Natural Semantic Metalanguage by Anna Weirzbicka’s in her book entitled Semantics: Primes and Universal which was published by Oxford University in 1996.This paper was analyzed using Descriptive Qualitative Method and did both library and field research method. Library research had done by finding the verbs in Balinese books and articles. Afterwards field research did with observation with asking some Balinese speakers. Five words are found to clean a human body; Mambuh (For cleaning hair), Mesugi (face) etc. Meanwhile one word (ngumbah) is neutral??. It means the word can be used to describe in human body and non-human body.Then the last, there are two words in Balinese which were found to describe cleaning activity using water in Balinese to clean something or the activity which not to clean human body like nyusud and ngepel.

scholarly journals Echoes from Gusti’s School: Historical, Epistemological, and Destiny Bonds between Sociology and Anthropology

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-162
Author(s):  
Gheorghiță Geană
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Family Studies ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Anthropological Research

In the interwar period of time, a team of four to six biological anthropologists headed by Francisc Rainer attended the monographical researches in the framework of Dimitrie Gusti’s Sociological School. After war, while sociology was abolished by the communist political regime, anthropology survived under the leadership of the physician Ștefan Milcu, an ex-member of Rainer’s team. As Director of the Anthropological Research Centre, Milcu took over the idea of monographical research ‒ this time from a bioanthropological perspective. However, he invited to researches a few social scientists to cover some aspects of demography, family studies, ethnography etc. Among them, especially Traian Herseni and Vasile Caramelea (under the protection identity of “demographer”, “or statistician”) produced outstanding contributions to the monographs of the villages Clopotiva, Bătrîna, Nucșoara & Cîmpu lui Neag ‒ all of them in the district of Hațeg, an ancient county of great importance for understanding the genesis of the Romanian people. A collateral super-effect of this activity was the foundation ‒ în 1964, at Vasile Caramelea’s initiative ‒ of the Section of cultural anthropology in the organization of the Anthropological Research Centre. This inauguration is interpreted again as “an adequate illustration of Thomas Kuhn’s theory about the changing of paradigm în science” (Geană, 2014b).

scholarly journals Монголын угсаатны зүйн судалгаа ба орчин үе (= Этнографические исследования в Монголии на современном этапе)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-480
Author(s):  
Tserenkhand Gelegzhamtsin ◽  
◽  
Maralmaa Nagaanbuu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Family And Marriage ◽  
Scientific Results

Goals. The article aims to highlight the main results of ethnographic research in Mongolia. The basis for ethnographic studies in Mongolia was laid by the emergence of professional scientists in the late 1950s, development of research methodologies, and the formation of the main research directions. Since the mid-1960s, a new approach to ethnographic research has prevailed, and studies in the evolution of traditional nomadic pastoral culture in Mongolia began. It can be noted that during this period there were works on cultural anthropology. At the same time, the nomadic culture and customs of that time were described formally, with an emphasis on the historical period. The study of works from this period allows us to conclude that the research methodology was based on the fact that the reality of life rested on the source material and remained an ethnocultural fact that never lost its value. During the following decades, the main focus of Mongolian ethnographic research was, firstly, the study of the way of life of Mongolian ethnic groups, and secondly, the identification of the causes of cultural and ethnic changes. Systematic ethnographic research was actively conducted on various issues, such as animal husbandry, nomadic customs, settlements and dwellings, food, dairy products, clothing, family and marriage, religion, crafts and folklore. Results. Currently, the following can be noted. There is a development of theoretical research based on previously achieved scientific results. Field research methods of ethnography, social and cultural anthropology are becoming more complex, and the field of studying the cultural heritage of the Mongolian people is becoming more important.

scholarly journals The Polish political scene as seen from a small town market

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Malewska-Szalygin
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legislative Language ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
Political Scene

This article presents the results of field research carried out in the spring of 2004 in the town of Nowy Targ (Podhale region, Poland), by the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. The research was based on open-ended interviews-or rather long conversations-with the vendors in the market square, enabling us to observe the political scene from a particular point of view. They interviews brought out the perception of the authorities 'from below'. This perspective uncovered many aspects of politics that are normally hidden behind the legislative language of the Constitution or even behind the informative language of the mass media.

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