Anthropology Chapter 3
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