ANTH Quiz 3 Ethnography

In which of the following locations might you find an anthropologist doing fieldwork?

All of the above

The difference between a survey and a structured interview is

All of the above

Anthropologists do not consider unstructured, casual conversations data.

False

Anthropologists use just three methods: interviews, field notes and participant observation.

False

Cultural anthropology is one of the most quantitative of the social sciences.

False

To study culture one must travel to distant, far-off places.

False

A critical reason for taking field notes is that there may be a long lag time between fieldwork and writing and publishing about it.

True

Anthropologists of the 1880s are referred to as 'armchair anthropologists' because they never traveled abroad and they gathered data from other people's reports.

True

An anthropologist might consider doing 'anthropology at a distance' because

all of the above

Fieldwork involves

all of the above

What kind of data do anthropologists gather from doing interviews?

all of the above

Cultural anthropologists do research by

building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time

Which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships?

intersubjective

Which method is important for understanding past social institutions and how they change?

life histories

'Going native' refers to a process whereby the anthropologist

loses the ability to be an engaged observer

Ethical issues facing ethnographers include all of the following except

protecting informants' blood samples and other biological information

Using life history interviews, researchers are able to

understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community

A word that best describes participant observation is

unstructured