Sunday, October 2, 2011

Student fieldworkers in village and city

In the article student fieldworkers in village and city by George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch, informs us about the difference between students studying in rural villages and urban cities and their experience. According to the article universities sent undergraduate students to field training programs to have some sort of knowledge and experience on how anthropologist work. In the 1980s and 1990s students were sent to Ireland and Barbados; however, as technology improved at the start of the new century people started to change in their everyday lives. For example people that lived in an isolated rural environment where introduced to technology by the anthropologist whom entered their lives in order to study them. With the help of technology, and a better view to the outside world these peoples moved to an urban environment to experience a new life. Therefore, anthropologist decided to study people that lived in urban cities and their interviews seemed to be more formal.  Although approaching people on the street is not essay, but in trying so, gave anthropologist more information and different ethnicities.  In small villages anthropologist studied one ethnicity and roomer’s commons were said about them. I  belief that it is better for anthropologist study people from urban areas because you always find different people.

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