ANTH-125 Chapter 3 Quiz

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

False

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

A central technique involved in an informal, open-ended interview is to

allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview

An anthropologist interested in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking

an emic perspective

Cultural anthropologists do research by

building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time

The people anthropologists gather data from are called

informants

"Going native" refers to a process whereby the anthropologist

loses the ability to be an engaged observer

This type of interaction may include playing basketball, cooking, dining, or having coffee with informants.

participant observation

An important ethical concern for anthropologists is to

protect their informants

The purpose of fieldnotes is to

provide written records of information that an anthropologist collects