New Uses for Old Ethnography: A Brief Social History of a Research Project with the Eastern Creek Indians, or How to Be an Applied Anthropologist Without Really Trying.

Paredes, J. Anthony

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Publication Date: 1976

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New Uses for Old Ethnography: A Brief Social History of a Research Project with the Eastern Creek Indians, or How to Be an Applied Anthropologist Without Really Trying

Paredes, J. Anthony

Human Organization, 35, 3, 315-29, F 76

Old-fashioned ethnographic field work as exemplified in this study of the Eastern Creeks has an intrinsic pragmatic utility precisely because it is so generalized and nonproblem oriented as to be flexible enough to meet a great variety of informational and social needs of the moment. (JC)

Descriptors: American Indians, Anthropology, Ethnology, Field Studies, Research Methodology

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