Host community: where you go

Participant observation (active involvement with host community)

Informants

Genealogical method: kinship

Life histories: life stories, qualitative data

Qualitative data: state of being data, descriptions

Quantitative data: numerical values

Armchair ethnographers: 3rd party theorists (pre-1900)

Boaz-salvage ethnography, in an attempt to save Native American culture

Malinowski-coined term "participant observation" Argonauts of the North Pacific

Understand emic perspective

Impartial observation

Geertz-interpretive anth. believed bias always taints

Gupta & Ferguson-"space", borderlands became places of contested cultural differences

Marcus-multi-sited ethnography

Problem oriented ethnography

Less breadth, more depth

Longitudinal research

Over long period of time

Deeper knowledge of culture

Team research

Surveys

Samples: small, manageable amount of people

Random sampling

Snow balling

Nonrandom