Anthropology Quiz 2: Chapter 4

Fieldwork involves

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When anthropologists go to the field

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

All of the locations

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

Which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from the relationships anthropologists engage in when in the field?

Inter-subjective

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

Life histories

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

A word that best describes participant observation is

Unstructured