What are strategies use by anthropologists to conduct research? How anthropologists obtain the point of view of their subjects?
To explore how anthropologists study humanity, you will pretend to be an anthropologist conducting research by interviewing one individual of your choice that MIGRATED TO THE U.S. (Please do not include the name of your interviewee in your write-up). You will be posting a summary of your interview in this discussion, and not a write up of the questions and the direct answers.
Ask your interviewee the following questions:
Question A. Ask your interviewee to tell you about the views on human biological evolution in the country of origin. Also ask to describe how the culture/religion/education in the country of origin has influence their views on human evolution.
Question B. How has their experience living in the U.S. affected their views on science and human evolution? Ask your interviewees to describe how American life, American culture, American inventions, etc. has affect their worldviews on science and evolution.
Make sure to take notes of what he/she answers for each of the questions above.
What to submit for Discussion #2?
Write a summary of what your interviewees stated for questions A and B.
Then apply what you learned from the readings. The topics discuss anthropological research, describing the process of conducting field work, of gathering data, interpreting data, interacting with informants, code of ethics, etc. Look beyond the research topics in each article, and focus in extracting information about the process of conducting anthropological work. Use arguments, data, facts and/or statements from these articles to enrich, support or refute the description of your experience doing anthropological work by conducting this interview. Make it clear to let the reader know what statements are yours and which ones belong to the author.
Use your own words. Do not use quotations or direct quotes.