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the Pina in 1926
Ruth Benedict’s 1926 fieldwork was with the Pima, not a group called the “Pina.”
Full reasoning
This names the wrong group. Reliable biographical sources on Ruth Benedict’s fieldwork list her Southwestern work among the Serrano, Zuni, Cochiti, and Pima. Vassar College’s encyclopedia entry specifically says she completed major studies of the Pima in 1926.
So "Pina" is incorrect here; the people Benedict studied were the Pima.
2 sources
- Ruth Benedict '1909 - Vassar Encyclopedia - Vassar College
Benedict went on to complete major anthropological studies of the Serrano in 1922, the Zuni in 1924, the Pima in 1926...
- New Resource – Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers | University of Oxford E-resources
Benedict’s fieldwork was done among the Serrano in California and with the Zuñi, Cochiti, and Pima in the Southwest.
In 2009, the Association adopted a code of ethics
The American Anthropological Association’s current ethics statement was approved in 2012, not 2009.
Full reasoning
This date is incorrect. The American Anthropological Association’s own ethics materials identify the current Principles of Professional Responsibility as a 2012 statement. The AAA ethics page says the text was posted by the association on November 1, 2012, and the official PDF is labeled "Approved November 2012."
So the article’s 2009 date does not match the association’s own publication and approval dates for the ethics code being described here.
2 sources
- Ethics Forum » Principles of Professional Responsibility
Posted on November 1st, 2012 by AAA ... Filed under: Full Text of the 2012 Ethics Statement.
- Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association
Approved November 2012 ... Principles of Professional Responsibility.
The method owes its origin from the book of British ethnographer W. H. R. Rivers titled "Kinship and Social Organisation" in 1911.
This misdates Rivers’s work and points to the wrong publication. Rivers’s genealogical method is associated with his 1910 article, while *Kinship and Social Organisation* was first published in 1914.
Full reasoning
The statement is inaccurate in two ways.
- The key publication for the genealogical method was Rivers’s 1910 article, The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Enquiry (or Inquiry).
- 7Kinship and Social Organisation8 was not a 1911 book. Routledge’s edition explains that these were lectures delivered in 1913 and first published in 1914. A 1914 Nature review likewise identifies the book as Kinship and Social Organisation (London: Constable and Co., 1914).
So the method is not properly traced to a 1911 book of that title.
3 sources
- Kinship and Social Organisation - 1st Edition - W. H. R. Rivers - Routledge
This volume reprints three of his lectures, delivered in 1913 and first published in 1914 ... Also included is the same author's The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Enquiry, first published in 1910.
- Kinship and Social Organisation | Nature
Published: 24 September 1914 ... Kinship and Social Organisation. By Dr. W. H. R. Rivers ... (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1914.)
- The Genealogical Method of Anthropological Inquiry
First published January 1910.
ethnology yields insights into the practical applications of a product or service.
The method described here is ethnography, not ethnology. Ethnology is the comparative study of cultures, while immersive natural-setting user research is ethnography.
Full reasoning
This sentence uses the wrong term. In the surrounding paragraph, the topic is businesses using ethnographers to observe people using products and services in natural settings. That is ethnography.
Authoritative reference sources distinguish the two terms:
- Ethnology is the comparative and analytical study of cultures and societies and is contrasted with ethnography.
- Ethnography is based on fieldwork / participant-observation and, in design research, includes studying users in natural settings to understand their daily lives.
So saying that ethnology yields these user-experience insights is incorrect in context; the article clearly means ethnography.
3 sources
- Ethnology | Anthropology | Research Starters | EBSCO Research
Ethnology is a branch of anthropology focused on the comparative and analytical study of cultures and societies. It contrasts with ethnography ... Ethnologists ... rely on printed and recorded materials, instead of immersing themselves in a culture or group.
- Ethnography | Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Ethnographic fieldwork, carried out according to the method of long-term participant-observation ... The following is a useful definition of ethnography: 'the recording and analysis of a culture or society, usually based on participant-observation'.
- Design Ethnography / The Design Exchange / Knowledge Base / The Design Society
User setting: Natural ... The main goal of design ethnography is to allow the design team to identify with their future users and develop an empathic understanding of their daily lives.