Professor Lambros Comitas Spring 2002

Office: 216 Main Hall


ITSF 5020

PRACTICUM IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES

 

For anthropologists and non-anthropologists contemplating independent, qualitative research, course provides hands-on experience in techniques for generating, recording, and managing anthropological data collected in the field.

During the course of the semester, students will be given several opportunities to carry out assignments in New York City environs dealing with technical issues related to entry into field, note-taking, indexing, systematic observation, interviewing, surveying, geneological method, life history, sociometrics, audio recording, film and still photography. These assignments will be written up, circulated to, and critiqued by the class and instructor.

RESOURCES

Barley, Nigel

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Bernard, H. Russell

2002 Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. AltaMira Press

2000 Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. Sage Publications, Inc.

Bernard, H. Russell (ed.)

1998 Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. AltaMira Press

Casagrande, Joseph B. (ed.)

1960 In the Company of Man: Twenty Portraits by Anthropologists. Harper & Brothers.

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Malinowski, Bronislaw

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Pelto, P.J.

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Sanjek, Roger (ed.)

1990 Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London.

Schensul, Jean J. and Margaret D. LeCompte (eds.)

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Wilson, Peter J.

1974 Oscar: An Inquiry into the Nature of Sanity. ( Oscar: A Man of the Eighth Variety). Random House

Wolcott, Harry F.

1995 The Art of Fieldwork. AltaMira Press