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These are the most common methods used by medical anthropologists. Different theories are influential in determining which of the methods a particular research might favor. These theories inform how an anthropologist might interpret their data, how they might compose a study from beginning to end, and how they interact with the people they study.
The Department of Anthropology emphasizes the importance of ethnographic research methods, conducted through intensive fieldwork in a single site or in a network of sites. Our ethnographic research has involved both innovative engagement and solid grounding in multiple anthropological traditions.
Practice theory (or praxeology, theory of social practices) is a body of social theory within anthropology and sociology that explains society and culture as the result of structure and individual agency.
The early decades of professional anthropology witnessed the disciplineʹs transformation from the armchair to the field. The dominant intellectual perspective in the middle of the nineteenth century was evolutionism, and the fledgling discipline of anthropology did not escape its grip.
This edition provides new material on questions of culture versus power, Max Weber’s thought, the potential of applied anthropology, and the rise of public anthropology, while touching on the anthropology of globalization.
An introduction to ethnographic fieldwork, the distinctive method of anthropological research providing a brief overview of its history and arguing it to be a peculiar mode of enquiry that emphasizes a naturalistic approach to understanding others and an inductive approach to theory-building.
Practice theory explores, understands and analyses the dynamics of interaction and conflict between social structure on one hand and human agency on the other hand. Practice theory highlights how there are differences in the motives and intentions of different human beings, and how they adjust, adapt and transform their world where they live.
