Transcript Participant Observation - Yasiin

Participant Observation
One of many Field Methods
• Ethnographers/Anthropologist do not study animals in
laboratory cages
• Ethnographers/Anthropologist subjects are humans
• Not in their procedures to manipulate, control or induce
Participant Observation
• Take part in the community as we observe it
• While studying humans you cannot be a detached
observer
• Take part in events & process
• Observe, comprehend, experience, and learn
Participant Observation
• Napoleon Chagnon
• Napoleon Alphonseau Chagnon is an American
anthropologist, professor of anthropology at the
University of Missouri
• Studying the Yanomamo
Participant Observation