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This course of lectures and tutorials explores how anthropological field research is designed and carried out in settings ranging from remote villages to urban settings, from organic communities of people to highly formalized organizations, whether in a foreign country or one's own native country. The course addresses how such research gets written up as ethnographies and how such ethnographies are read. Students will learn practical ethnographic field techniques by carrying out a field exercise in participant-observation, and will learn how to design an anthropological research project, including planning, fieldwork, analysis and write-up phases, by writing up a proposal for an actual research project (which they have the option of carrying out as a BA thesis in the third year). Moreover, students will learn the epistemological foundations of anthropological research, as well as the ethics of anthropological research.
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