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Welcome to the Anthropology 4U blog, “A Beginner’s Guide to Anthropology!” In these posts, I write about the four fields of Anthropology for a general audience. And, I try to make the content easy to understand. So if you don’t know anything about Anthropology and you want to learn, keep reading! You can view the posts by category using the options below, and you can also view posts by tag. I hope you enjoy reading my posts and they teach you a lot about Anthropology. If you have comments or suggestions for future posts, please contact me. I’d love to hear from you! Hope you have a great day!
In a previous post, I mentioned that the field of UX (User Experience) is a popular field for Anthropologists to go into if they don’t want to teach. Why is this? Well, one reason is that UX and Anthropology have
In the last blog post, you learned about some examples of the uses of focus groups in Anthropology. In this post, I will discuss focus group composition, meaning how to form groups with the people you have chosen to be
Anthropologists use many different types of research methods, and one of those is focus groups. In the last post, I discussed the uses of focus groups in general. In this post, I will be discussing some examples of the uses
Anthropologists use many different types of research methods. And, one of those methods is focus groups. In the last post, you learned what exactly a focus group is. In this post, I will discuss some of the uses of focus
This post is about research methods in Anthropology, specifically focus groups. When people think of Anthropology, many envision a researcher visiting a remote village and learning the culture by living among the people. This is participant observation and is probably the
In a previous post, I explained how Cultural Anthropologists study culture. And, in other posts, I explained how to do ethnographic surveys and free listing. Now I’d like to tell you about another research method, called genealogical interviewing, and tell you
In this post, I would like to share more information about Anthropological research methods. In a previous blog post, I explained how Cultural Anthropologists study culture. And, in another post, I explained how to do ethnographic surveys. Also, I talked
In my last blog post, I explained the research process behind a small research project that I conducted in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007. I detailed how I found a research topic (health & illness) and narrowed that topic into a
In my recent blog posts, I have discussed how to start a research project involving surveys. But, the process I described can be applied to other types of research methods as well. So, now I’d like to show you an
So, in a previous blog post, you learned that sometimes Anthropologists use surveys during their research, to collect data on the people they are studying. In other previous blog posts, you learned how to find a research topic, narrow that topic down
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