Overview
Highlights the increasing necessity of research in indigenous contexts, and the potential problems for researchers and members of indigenous cultures that run parallel to this trend
Links the research methodology pertinent to indigenous contexts with ethical aspects and the current legal situation
Lays a strong applicational emphasis that will help researchers to effectuate the appropriate methodology and to design their field research in an optimized way
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
Keywords
- Culturally sustainable field research
- History of transcultural field encounters
- Researchers’ influence and philosophy of science
- Right to self-determination
- Structural Analysis of Cultural Systems
- The scientist as a psychological being
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- cultural theories and cultural dominance
- ethnography
- legal framework of research in indigenous contexts
- total immersion in indigenous societies
About this book
This forward-looking resource offers readers a modern contextual framework for conducting social science research with indigenous peoples. Foundational chapters summarize current UN-based standards for indigenous rights and autonomy, with their implications for research practice. Coverage goes on to detail minimally-invasive data-gathering methods, survey current training and competency issues, and consider the scientist’s role in research, particularly as a product of his/her own cultural background. From these guidelines and findings, students and professionals have a robust base for carrying out indigenous research that is valid and reliable as well as respectful and ethical.
Among the topics covered:· Cultural theories and cultural dominance.
· The legal framework of research in indigenous contexts.
· The role of language within indigenous peoples’ cultural rights.
· Methodology: how to optimally collect data in the field.
· Researchers’ influence and philosophy of science.· Learning how to prepare research in indigenous contexts.
Research Methods in Indigenous Contexts is an important reference benefitting a wide audience, including students and researchers in the social sciences, humanities, and psychology; decision-makers of NGOs and GOs that act with regard to humanitarian aid, for tourism projects, or any other contingency with indigenous contexts; and policymakers interested in the aspects of human activity upon which indigenous cultural concerns are based.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Research Methods in Indigenous Contexts
Authors: Arnold Groh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72776-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72774-5Published: 12 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89206-1Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72776-9Published: 02 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 236
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Anthropology