Study Questions Anth 353/Sustn 353
Week 10
Orlove 68-115
1.
What three aspects of Orlove’s research plan were most important
to him? (p70)
-a list of the price of the fish (simple)
-a complete consensus of fisherman (tricky)
-a detailed record of the fish that the fisherman caught (hard)
2.
What complications arose when Orlove began to study the ecology
of Lake Titicaca? (p71)
even finding out the price of the fish was a more complex matter
than he had anticipated
he couldn't even tell them apart
he also had to learn the units by which the fish were sold and the
items for which they were exchanged
prices varied from market to market
3.
How did IMARPE contribute to Orlove’s project? (p72)
Made research about consensus of fisherman just 3 years ago
so they were willed to give him access to the date in exchange
for money (out of his additional budget)
data had been compiled at considerable effort
4.
Describe the ‘catch survey’ method used by Orlove. (p75)
a researcher takes a sample of the total number of fishing
economic units and trains the members of this sample to record
their catch
they also directly measure the catch of another sample of such
units to provide a reliability check since local fisherman may be
inaccurate in their self recording.
once the fishermen own reports
are corrected, simple statistics extrapolates the catch of the entire
population from the reports.
5.
Why did Orlove pay the fishermen who participated in the research?
What problems could this technique create? (p78)
He paid them so they would participate on the research, and so
that they would do their work and catch not more than they do
usually
but this enforced competition and falsifying the reports and false
approval to fish in land that belonged to other villages since they
are paid employees.
6.
Why did Orlove think the ritualized way in which the IMARPE staff
distributed research materials to the fisherman was important?
(p83)
IMARPE had a very standardized process and let the fishermen
stand in line
the workshop has contained many moments that demeaned
(erniedrigend) the fishermen
they had been treated like they were uneducated boors and
they accepted this inferiority.
yet the fishermen were also in a sense being honored by their
inclusion in the project
it offers them a chance to garner recognition for themselves,
the villages, and their entire way of life.
one step in the fight against oblivion, to be forgotten
7.
What were the major sources of error in Orlove’s fishing study data?
(p86)
fisherman recorded catch in his notebook,
when he transferred the data from the notebook to the catch
survey form,
when Hilda entered the data on the coding form
when the research assistant entered the data into the computer
from the coding form.
