Social and Cultural Anthropology · Part 1: Engaging with anthropology

PRAC — The practice of anthropology

Social and Cultural Anthropology · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. AN_P1_5

   The ethnographic method and participant observation

   The signature method of the discipline; the position of the observer; how the strange becomes familiar and the familiar strange.

2. AN_P1_6

   Fieldwork methods and data

   Gathering, interpreting and presenting ethnographic data, and how the methods chosen relate to the anthropologist's theoretical perspective.

3. AN_P1_7

   Research ethics

   Informed consent, reflexivity, power and representation, and avoiding harm: why ethics is central to anthropological practice.