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where can i receive training in ethnographic research?

Mar 09, 2006 by gr33dos | Posted in Search Engine Optimization

I am a marketing scrutiny professional for a packaged goods company. I need to find a training course in 2006 to begin learning more about the nuts and bolts of ethnographic exploration.

Are you looking for existent training or to back up your experiential knowledge with some sort of credential?

If you have not already had any formal xperience with ethnographic methods, I would *read* before taking a without a doubt. Chances are you've been doing some forms of ethnography without identifying it as such. Your knowledge can easily be supplemented by reading some orderly books. If you've been in marketing for a while, you'll see fairly quickly how to use the techniques described in the textbooks.

If you need some tidy up of credential to back up your knowledge, look to any local university/college. If they don't offer a course specifically in ethnography, look for a qualitative methods classify.

Ideally, you would like to find a university with a certificate program. I don't think there are any certificate programs in ethnography, per se, but you might be superior to find one in research methods. Look for distance education programs, too, if you don't live in/near a "college metropolis."

Good luck!

what is the difference between an anthropological source and ethnographic example?

Mar 10, 2008 by Willie M | Posted in Anthropology

So what is the disagreement, and could someone give an example of each.

Could the source be something out of a book, like a definition or something

I'm not surely clear about what you're trying to ask, but I think I might have an answer that will work for you.

In anthropology (and other fields) there are different ways to relate data or information about some sort of research question. You can go through a primary source or a secondary source. A primary originator would be to obtain the information from someone directly involved in whatever it is, at the time it is occuring...

let me try it this way... If you were doing some anthropology research concoct about a particular group or culture of people, a primary source of info would be you doing an ethnography.

If a few years later someone wanted to make little of a book/journal about that group of people, they would look at your work as well as others who may have done related first hand research and compile that bumf together and come to their own conclusions, after the events/whatever had transpired. The work he creates would be a secondary source of information on the subject, and yours would be fundamental.

hope that helps.

Where can i find a complete copy of the ethnographic survey of africa?

Jan 31, 2008 by nmekky | Posted in Books & Authors

The intercontinental African Institute of London published - between 1944 and 1978 - a series of books/monographs/edited volumes about the sundry peoples of Africa. Some of them are available on Amazon.com , but I am having difficulty getting a list of the volumes in order to find out what is there and what is missing. I also do not be acquainted with if these exist in digital form (pdf files for example) Can anyone help?

Step into the shoes of the link http://www.rajasir.blogspot.com and click on 'free books download'and then click on the categories.There you will find Africa.Download as many books as you fall short of.