Chapter 4 - Cultural Anthropology

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

False

Which of the following is the defining methodology to the discipline of anthropology?

Field = Work

Early anthropologists used the _________ method to establish models of social evolution.

comparative

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

Life histories

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

Anthropology is different from journalism because in the United States journalists' data are protected by law.

True

Which project would be best suited to "parachute" ethnography?

a study of community response to a disaster

Bronislaw Malinowski developed the ________ method, which requires the researcher to live with people for years in order to develop the "native's point of view."

ethnographic

Anthropologists often disguise the identity of their _______.

informants

If you studied sex workers in your city as Philippe Bourgois studied crack dealers in New York City, you might find that

maintaining confidentiality is an ongoing challenge

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

participant observation