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  • [HOW DID YOU DO YOUR FIELDWORK?]

  • So really, this way of doing fieldwork

  • has been quite a unique way of doing fieldwork.

  • In traditional anthropology

  • which is the subject and background I'm from,

  • people would normally spend 15 months

  • in a place living closely with people

  • and just 'hanging out'.

  • Spending time with people, writing every day.

  • So, I've done that.

  • I've done the 'anthropological thing'.

  • I've lived in this town for 15 months, between 2013 and 2014.

  • I've lived in a village on the side of the town

  • and I've spent pretty much everyday here.

  • I spend my days hanging out with people,

  • eating with people,

  • spending time with them, chatting with them.

  • Finding out not just about social media, but about all kinds of aspects of their lives.

  • And these people, normally in anthropology or in science

  • we call them our participants or informants

  • but actually, most of all, they're my friends.

  • That's one of the really important things in our methodology.

  • We hope that by getting close to people we understand more about their lives

  • and they're willing to let us understand more about their lives.

  • But also with this project we've tried to blend that anthropological research,

  • what we call the ethnographic research,

  • that close observation of everyday life,

  • with lots of other research methods.

  • So as well, in this town we've also done 120, almost, detailed questionnaires.

  • and a large number of these long recorded interviews.

  • [ARE YOU ON YOUR OWN OUT THERE?]

  • Actually while normal anthropology was always a very solitary pursuit

  • and you would go into a tribe in the jungle

  • and be there on your own for a year and a half

  • what's been really great about my research here

  • is that it's been really collaborative

  • and it's involved the help and assistance of lots of people.

  • So in my field site I was very fortunate, at the start,

  • to have the help of 2 research assistants from Beijing

  • who spent the first three months with me

  • I've also used research assistants from the local villages in the town.

  • and I work with them and they help introduce me to people

  • or sometimes help to explain things to me.

  • [DO PEOPLE DO THE SAME SOMEWHERE ELSE?]

  • Also, one of the most important parts of this fieldwork

  • has been that it's a collaborative and a comparative thing.

  • So while I've been doing my fieldwork here in this fieldsite

  • my colleagues from the project

  • have been doing the same fieldwork in

  • Brazil, India, Trinidad, the UK, Chile, in Turkey

  • and all around the world.

  • This has being great because we've been keeping

  • in contact by email regularly

  • and also doing a monthly video call

  • where we talk about and compare our results.

  • So this has been a really different project

  • and a far more collaborative one.

  • So it's been great because

  • when questions have come out in the field.

  • We've been comparing what people have been saying in China

  • to what they've been saying in Chile.

  • That has been really useful for me

  • and it's completely changed the way that I do anthropology

  • and it's completely changed the way I think about how

  • my results fit amongst everybody else's.

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中國農村。Tom McDonald討論研究方法 (Rural China: Tom McDonald discusses research methods)

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    Pedroli Li 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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