*ARCH 423:Ethnographic Field Methods

The course involves the participation of the student in actual fieldwork over a six-week period.  While in the field, the student will learn and practice various methods and techniques, which ethnographers employ to gather primary data.  Practical work will be combined with formal lectures and seminars.  In addition to living under and experiencing actual conditions of field research, the student will train in ethnographic and other anthropological field survey, which will include the collection of oral accounts.  She or he will also train in data processing, recording, analysis, and interpretation, and in photography and videography.