Chapter 3 Anthropology

An emic approach focuses on

what people in the study area say about their won culture, gathering data on culturally shared rules for behavior, explanations for culture offered by members of that culture, events that have meaning for members of a particular culture

Compared to Malinowski's research in the Trobriands, Wiener's restudy addressed

women's lives

When doing fieldwork, establishing rapport

can involve exchanging gifts with the local people

In the Trobriand Islands, the British colonialists substituted which activity for local warfare

cricket

research that is guided by a hypothesis is

deductive

A key factor that helps in selecting a research project is

finding a topic that has been neglected by previous researchers, a certain degree of intuition and luck, relating to a current issue of importance such as refugee movements, and finding a place that was studied long ago and merits restudy

Interpretivist anthropologists tend to favor which kind of research approach?

inductive

According to the code of ethics of the American Anthropological Association, the anthropologist's first responsibility is to

protect the people studies from harm related to the research

Given current globalization and the rarity of small isolated cultures, many contemporary cultural anthropologists have abandoned

the concept of holism

On the basis of his experience in the Trobriand Islands during World War I, Bronislaw Malinowski is generally considered to be

the father of participant observation

One thing about which most cultural anthropologists agree is

the importance of doing fieldwork

An ethnography is

the main way cultural anthropologists present their findings about culture, a descriptive writing about a culture, and an important aspect of anthropological research

People's naming of places is called

toponymy