Practice question · Put in order
Order a classic fieldwork project from first move to last.
- Build rapport through months of participation
- Analyze patterns emerging from the notes
- Settle in and begin learning the language
- Record systematic field notes and genealogies
- Write the ethnography
Hints
- Nothing meaningful can be recorded before the language is workable.
- Analysis has to wait until the data exists.
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- Settle in and begin learning the language
- Build rapport through months of participation
- Record systematic field notes and genealogies
- Analyze patterns emerging from the notes
- Write the ethnography
Why
Language before rapport, rapport before real data, data before analysis: each stage feeds the next, and skipping one shows in the final monograph.
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