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ANTHROPOLOGY 2203

METHODS ASSIGNMENT

PEOPLES OF THE WORLD

MARCH 11TH, 2005

MIKE WILBER



I decided to base my research on an ethnographic interview conducted with my neighbor. I decided to use the ethnographic interview approach since it would be impossible for me to obtain this information without traveling to the Middle East. I will call him Tarik to keep his real name anonymous. He identifies himself as a Russian Arab Muslim from New Jersey.
His parents are originally from Syria and he has lived there for several years in the past. He has many relatives in Syria and his knowledge about the culture of that part of the world is abundant. The world view of the people in that region of the world is vastly different from the western world. He is a Muslim as is most of the populace of Syria. The aspects of Islam itself would be enough information to cover this whole paper, so I will not limit all the information to religion.
He stated that the......

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