Ch 5-2

The process whereby the anthropologist loses the ability to be an engaged observer is called

"going native".

Collecting historical documents in order to explore the history of an area is what we call

Archival research

Anthropologists of the 1800s who depended on secondary sources (missionary diaries, colonial reports) to make larger assumptions about humankind are called

Armchair anthropologists

When there is sensitive information, anthropologists might not share the identities of their

Informants

A good method to understand how people's age affects their standing in society is

Life histories

If anthropologists want to know how kinship patterns or rituals of marriage have changed over time, which methodology would they use?

Life histories

Which anthropologist did research in a shopping mall to learn about how people use public space?

Paco Underhill

Interview data are which type of data?

Qualitative

The comparative method was used by anthropologists in the 1800s to develop theories of

Socioevolution

Bronislaw Malinowski is the anthropologist best known for

developing the "ethnographic method".

Bronislaw Malinowski stayed in his fieldsite for so long because he was

doing research during World War I and could not return to his home country.

Ethnohistory is the method used

for historical research about a society that may not have historical documents

Intersubjectivity is

knowledge about other people that emerges out of relationships.

An example of the comparative method is

multisited ethnography.

Using data from several societies is referred to as

the comparative method.