Every year, people flee to India in the two villages where we (first and second writers) work or live. Sometimes they are forced to sell their land. Sometimes the Government continues to occupy it under the “reserve forest scheme.” Before 1975, for example, there were most of the Rakhain in the village, where now they were minority people; the rest are Bengalis. Where once upon the Indigenous people were the majority in number, now they are in the minority and deprived of all types of state privileges due to ethnic/ Indigenous liquidation, which is a process of becoming less important by numbering. Let us give the example of the bay, Bangladesh; the settlers are still at the center of colonialism, flowing much like the Falgu River. So, 'critical approach is the important.'
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Quantitative Data in Ethnography With Asian Reflections
Parimal Roy (University of Malaya, Malaysia),
Jahid Siraz Chowdhury (Lincoln University College, Malaysia), Haris Wahab (University of Malaya, Malaysia), Mohd Rashid Mohd Saad (University of Malaya, Malaysia), and Sanjay Krishno Biswas (Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh)
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9220-5.ch164
Abstract
This article discusses how ethnographic techniques work to conduct statistical analysis in anthropological research on the Indigenous community. At the same time, it explores how to use statistical techniques to expand anthropology and capacity and other qualitative approaches to research. It limits us in some ways to the questions we may ask in the digital age, between qualitative and quantitative research methods, between science and humanity, and between numbers and understanding. Yet, quantitative ethnography is a 'complement' to a research method that supports our growing data. It will help to understand how we can take our place in the rich world.