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Faculty of Sociology
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Grao en Socioloxia
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  Ethnographic research methodology
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Topic Sub-topic
SUBJECT 1st. FIELD WORK
IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ETHNOGRAPHY

SUBJECT 2nd. PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

SUBJECT 3rd. ACTION-RESEARCH AND OTHER STRATEGIES OF OBSERVATION

SUBJECT 4th. INTERVIEW IN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE LOCAL NARRATIVES. INTERPRETING TEXTS AND RITUAL ACTIONS.

SUBJECT 5th. OTHER COMPLEMENTARY METODOS. SOURCES AND REGISTRATIONS.

SUBJECT 6th. PROCESS OF ANALISIS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING
Of the 1st SUBJECT. The field work: identification and understanding of the sociocultural complexity through the prolonged social experience.. The ethnography as interactive and reflexive process. The design and the reconsiderations of the research. Phases of the field work.

Of the 2nd SUBJECT. Taking part in order to observe, and to learn to observe. Advantages of the P.O. and handicaps. Access to the field and relations. The availability and the reduction of reactivity. Techniques and strategies in the P.O. The multisituated ethnography in the face of the processes of the globalization. The registration and organization of the information: tools and procedures.

Of the 3rd SUBJECT Participant Observation Wool.
Other strategies of observation.
Participative action-research, or "participant collaboration".
Orientations and logics of these practices of research.
The study of case in ethnography. Time Allocation Methodology

Of the 4th SUBJECT. The narratives and his registration. Interpreting texts and representations. Discourses and narrativity. The ethnographic interview in the era of globalization. Inquiry of the values and knowledge. Types of interviews according to goals of research. Structures and strategies of the process of interviewing.

Of the 5th SUBJECT. The biographical method in anthropology. The genealogical method. Documents and registrations of ethnographic interest, and techniques for its exploitation. Combinatory Method in Anthropology. Personal cards and domestic cards. The photography and the ethnographic film.

Of the 6th SUBJECT. Interpretative analysis of data in anthropology. The ethnography as a product: anthropological writing and writing of reports.
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