Anthropology Chapter 3

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If you wanted to let informants discuss a topic and make connections to other issues in that process, what kind of interviews should you conduct?

Open-ended interviews

Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is called

action anthropology

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

anthropologists believe that the "native point of view" is better than their own.

false

If you wanted to study patterns of kin relations in a community, which method would you use?

geneological method

when anthropologists go into the field, they

go with a set of questions they want to ask and have answered

_______ are important for an anthropologist to write down because they reflect his or her private observations, which can also be useful data

head notes

the people anthropologists gather data from are called

informants

which method is an extended conversation that can shed light on how social institutions change over time

life histories

An important ethical concern for anthropologists is to

protect their informants

anthropologists deploy the method of ethnohistory to

study cultural change in periods for which a community had no written histories

an anthropologist might consider doing "anthropology at a distance" because

there is infectious disease, conflict, or violence in the field site

A critical reason for taking fieldnotes is that there may be a long lag time between fieldwork and writing and publishing about it

true

Using life history interviews, researchers are able to

understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community


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