Culture Anthropology 220 quiz 2 chapter 5

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Collecting historical documents in order to explore the history of an area is what we call: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 to make lager assumptions about humankind are called:

Armchair anthropologists

Bronislaw Malinowski is the anthropologist best known for:

Developing the ethnographic method

Bronislaw Malinowski stayed in his field site for so long because he was:

Doing research during world war 1 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For historical research about a society that may not have historical documents

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

Informants

Intersubjectivity is:

Knowledge about other people that emerges out of relationships

A good method to understand how peoples age affects their standing in a 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

An example of the comparative method

Multisited ethnography

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

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

Using data from several societies is referred to as:

The comparative method