while they found out that Kuna were worried that spirits might carry them off, so they slept with one another d. Things come little by little. In your head you have a persistent set of questions and eventually you understand their answers An old ethnography of the Kuna done by a missionary said that the Kuna didn't store food. But the missionary had never gone to the forest When Howe went to the forest with the Kuna, he saw that they had planted their banana crops so that they'd ripen at different times during the year. Thus they did have stored food they just ' stored it in the field e. Participant observation can be dangerous. Mostly accident; car wreck animal bites. illness and the like Car and truck wrecks are the most f. There's a question about if your presence there distorts people's behavior Are the people self-conscious about your being there? i. Often if you stay there long enough, people grow more comfortable. You have to keep that in mind when you make your observations g.(Field notes projected on the screen. Anthropologists are very secretive about their field notes h. One of the problems is the struggle between note taking and participating i. Another key aspect is open-ended, qualitative interviewing, almost th opposite of questionnaires Questionnaires have limitations because they box you into answers. Anthropologists look for a way to talk about things that doesnt foreclose options or box in peoples answers 1. This happened in casual conversations and in formal Interviews 2. You re looking for what is important to the people you speak to. You have to let people talk about what they wantwhile they found out that Kuna were worried that spirits might carry them off, so they slept with one another. d. Things come little by little. In your head you have a persistent set of questions and eventually you understand their answers. i. An old ethnography of the Kuna done by a missionary said that the Kuna didn’t store food. But the missionary had never gone to the forest. When Howe went to the forest with the Kuna, he saw that they had planted their banana crops so that they’d ripen at different times during the year. Thus they did have stored food, they just “stored” it in the field. e. Participant observation can be dangerous. Mostly accident; car wreck, animal bites, illness and the like. Car and truck wrecks are the most common. f. There’s a question about if your presence there distorts people’s behavior. Are the people self-conscious about your being there? i. Often if you stay there long enough, people grow more comfortable. You have to keep that in mind when you make your observations. g. (Field notes projected on the screen.) Anthropologists are very secretive about their field notes. h. One of the problems is the struggle between note taking and participating. i. Another key aspect is open-ended, qualitative interviewing, almost the opposite of questionnaires. i. Questionnaires have limitations because they box you into answers. Anthropologists look for a way to talk about things that doesn’t foreclose options or box in people’s answers. 1. This happened in casual conversations and in formal interviews. 2. You’re looking for what is important to the people you speak to. You have to let people talk about what they want to talk about