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Hserv 526 Session 2
Describe research questions that are suitable for
effort in this course and complete team selection
Choose a time for each group to meet with TAs or
instructor
Avoiding dropsy!!!
• Get up and go outside for fresh air, drink of
water
• Bring a stimulant drink to class
• Paint eyeballs on eyelids
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
How many read it?
IN COURSE PACKET, NOT
LIBRARY
Perspective? Emic or Etic??
American
naciremA
Lecture notes
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Electronic syllabus, exercises, schedule
there also
Course readings
Ram's Copy Center
Audio recording of lectures
TEXTBOOK
Bernard’s Research Methods in
Anthropology
Ullin Qualitative Methods in Public
Health: Field Guide for Applied
Research
Requirements for the Topic and
Team
• 3 partners
• Non-native English speakers to have one
‘native’ partner in group)
• ALL POPULATIONS FOR THE
RESEARCH TOPIC MUST BE EITHER
ON THE UW CAMPUS, OR FIVE
MINUTES WALK AWAY
Exercise 1
Human Subjects Exemption form
http://www.washington.edu/research/hsd/form
s_paper.php
go to Certificate of Exemption, download that
as MS word file) as follows, PLEASE
TYPE on the word file downloaded from
the web), and note the text on the reverse of
the form.
Exercise 1
• should be self explanatory, but if you have
any questions or concerns, call me or
Anthony at home or email one or both of us
• ONE FORM PER TEAM ONLY
Ethnographic Field Guide
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Introduction: purpose, questions
Methods to be used
Description of sample
GANTT chart is also a time line chart in exercise
sheets
• Dummy write up (MAXIMUM ONE PAGE)
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Abstract
Introduction
Methods
Findings
• Describe what you might find
– Conclusions
Next Tuesday
• Hand in form and field guide
• OBSERVATION
CULTURAL DOMAINS
• defined as category of cultural meaning that
includes other cultural categories, (from an emic
perspective),
– domain can be related to a place/location (e.g. school or
clinic), a concept (diarrhea, food flexibility), material
things (medicines, cars), or people (shamans, gypsies,
nuns)
• Cognitive Anthropology (semantic distinctions)
• Componential analysis (building blocks of meaning
in semantics)
Domain attributes
• cover term (that indicates a category of cultural
knowledge) words used in plural
– tree
– illnesses that women get in a village in Nepal
• included terms (at least 2, that are the elements
that comprise a domain)
– oak, yew, pine, maple
– mutu khane
Domain attributes
• semantic relationship where all included terms are
related to cover term in same way
– pine and maple are “kinds of trees”
– mutu khane is an illness that women get in Nepal
• DOMAINS ARE NOT THEMES
– (Spradley reading on themes in packet)
– comes out in Analysis later
Domain attributes
• boundaries: certain things are not part of
that domain
– a tulip is not within the domain of a tree
– e.g. sunburn is not an illness that women in a
village get in Nepal
• OFTEN/USUALLY, domains are not found
in many qualitative studies
Cultural Domain
Research Topic
included terms
Student Eating Habits on Campus
Healthy Foods
Unhealthy Foods
Convenience Foods
Domain analysis
• Read interview texts
• Look for names of things (esp. plural)
• See if one of names could be cover term
– Name used for more than one thing
– Name could be used as “kind of”
– Others become included terms
• Semantic relationships
• Boundary
EXAMPLES: Qualitative studies
• STD’s in minority women prevention trial
– Behavioral intervention based on knowledge of cultural
beliefs produced large decline in re-infection rate
• Karachi squatter settlement women and infertility
treatment seeking
– Treated as clinical disease by providers without
considering social ramifications
Behavioral Intervention: prevent STD’s
in minority women NEJM 340: 93-100 1999
• Create culture- and sexspecific small-group
interventions
– Af Am & Mex Am fe.
• 18 months of research
• 2 groups randomized
• 1 group standard
counseling
• 1 group culture specific
counseling
2nd Aquisition STD
30
25
20
% 15
10
5
0
34%
49%
38%
control
intervention
6
12 Overall
months months
TIme after enrolment
Guidelines for choosing a
research question
• field logistics & scheduling
– too far away:
• old folks homes,
• street people in Pioneer Square,
• Lummi Indians
Receptiveness of study
population to being studied:
• injection drug users,
• psychiatric patients
• homeless people,
• not appropriate unless you have previous
experience with and access to such a
population
AVOID
• unfocused topics
– health in Seattle, or infectious diseases in adults
• overly sensitive topics:
– sexual behavior of HIV positive injection drug
users on University Avenue
• minors, sensitive topics e.g. sexual behavior