Issues in the Ethics of Research Method: An Interpretation of the Anglo-American Perspective [and Comments and Reply]
| Autor: | A. Wachtel, Maxwell Owusu, James Hirabayashi, J. A. Barnes, Aidan Southall, Khalil Nakhleh, Bob Scholte, Simeon W. Chilungu, Joseph G. Jorgensen, Sol Tax, W. G. Studdert-Kennedy, Andre J. F. Köbben, Michel Panoff, Satish Saberwal, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Johannes Fabian, Jean Copans, Samwiri Lwanga-Lunyiigo, A. K. Quarcoo, Naomi Katz |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 17:457-481 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/201759 |
| Popis: | There is a pattern of elements within the Anglo-American structure of thinking and reasoning which affects methods of data collection, data analysis, and systems of information dispersion with respect to studies of non-Western cultures. An argument is built in this paper which maintains that: (1) These same elements hinder some Anglo-American anthropologists from studying their own cultures. They form a pattern which begins with the selection of anthropology as a profession, the selection of a target culture, the selection of behavioral phenomena, actions, events, and occurrences for observation in the target culture, the selection of informants, and the choice of language-words and concepts-for recording, description, classification, and generalization. (2) The pattern is witnessed in some verbal descriptions and in descriptive and inferential statistics in reference to non-Western cultures and also in some book titles, course titles, textbook illustrations, cover designs, and photographs. It is witnesse... |
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