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ANTH 390: Community-Based Research Methods (Rev. 2, 3, & 4) Report a Broken Link

Welcome to Anthropology 390: Community-Based Research Methods. The intent of this course is to introduce the basic concepts, principles, and issues surrounding community-based research methods. You will gain some insight into the contrasts and complementarities between Western and Indigenous methodologies—how they differ, and what each brings to the whole picture. This course will introduce the concept of ethics in research so that you will be able to apply for ethics approval from an ethics committee as part of a community-based research project. The units of the Study Guide will direct you through the process of carrying out a small-scale research project, while exposing you to varying perspectives about the methodologies used in ethnographic research.

Unit 1

Finnis, Elizabeth. 2004. “Anthropology and Participatory Research: Ethical Considerations in International Development.” NEXUS 17 (1): 32–62.
Johnson, Leslie Main, Janelle Baker, and Michael Francis. 2010. “Discussion of Fieldwork, Part 1: Introduction.” MacMullen. [video]

Unit 2

Webster, Schuyler, and Herbert Nabigon. 1993. “First Nations Empowerment in Community-Based Research.” In Transitions: Schooling and Employment in Canada, edited by Paul Anisef and Paul Axelrod, 159–167. Toronto, ON: Thompson Education Publishing.

Unit 3

Stoeker, Randy. 2004. “Appendix B: Research Ethics.” In Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach, 241–247. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Guillemin, Marilys, and Lynn Gillam. 2004. Guillemin, Marilys, and Lynn Gillam. 2004. “Ethics, Reflexivity, and ‘Ethically Important Moments’ in Research.” Qualitative Inquiry 10 (2): 261–280.
Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics. 2018. Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS). Ottawa, ON: Interagency Secretariat on Research Ethics.
Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics. 2022. TCPS 2: CORE—Tutorial. Ottawa, ON: Interagency Secretariat on Research Ethics.
International Society of Ethnobiology. 2006. ISE Code of Ethics (with 2008 additions).

Unit 4

Cruikshank, Julie. 1998. “‘Pete’s Song’: Establishing Meanings through Story and Song. In Collaboration with Angela Sidney.” In The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory, 25–44. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
Cruikshank, Julie. 1998. “Yukon Arcadia: Oral Tradition, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Fragmentation of Meaning.” In The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory, 45–70. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
Augustine, Stephen J. 2008. “Preface: Oral History and Oral Traditions.” In Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics, edited by Renée Hulan and Renate Eigenbrod, 1–5. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing.
Bear Nicholas, Andrea. 2008. “The Assault on Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Past and Present.” In Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics, edited by Renée Hulan and Renate Eigenbrod, 13–43. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing.
Tobias, Terry M. 2000. Chief Kerry’s Moose: A Guidebook to Land Use and Occupancy Mapping, Research Design and Data Collection. Vancouver, BC: Union of BC Indian Chiefs and Ecotrust Canada.
Hart, Elisa. 1995. “Getting Started in Oral Traditions Research.” Occasional Papers of the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, no. 4. Yellowknife, NT: Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre.

Unit 5

Johnson, Leslie Main, Janelle Baker, and Michael Francis. 2010. “Discussion of Fieldwork, Part 2: Reflexivity.” MacMullen. [video]

Unit 6

Brody, Hugh. 2004. “The Indians’ Maps.” In Maps and Dreams, 146–177. Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.
Valadez, Susana Eger. 1996. “Wolf Power and Interspecies Communication in Huichol Shamanism.” In People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival, edited by Stacy B. Schaefer and Peter T. Furst, 267–305. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

Unit 7

Richardson, Laurel, and Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre. 2005. “Writing: A Method of Inquiry.” In The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, edited by M.K. Denzin and Y. S. Lincoln, 959–978. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Unit 8

Finnis, Elizabeth. 2004. “Anthropology and Participatory Research: Ethical Considerations in International Development.” NEXUS 17 (1): 32–62.
Ignace, Ron, George Speck, and Renee Taylor. 1993. “Some Native Perspectives on Anthropology and Public Policy (as interviewed by Noel Dyck).” In Anthropology, Public Policy and Native Peoples in Canada, edited by N. Dyck and J. Waldram, 166–191. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press.