Anthropology Chapter 3: Ethnography

An anthropologist interested in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking...

A: An epic perspective

Cultural anthropologists do research by...

A: Building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time

A word that best describes participant observation would be...

C: Unstructured

The comparative method...

C: Uses data from many different societies

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

D: Life Histories

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

D: Participant observation

Using life history interviews, researchers are able to...

D: Understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community

The people anthropologists gather data from are called...

C: Informants

Which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships?

C: Intersubjective

___ are important for an anthropologists to write down because they reflect his observations, which can also be useful data.

A: Headnotes

The purpose of field-notes is ...

A: To provide written records of information that an anthropologist creates

"Going native" refers to a process whereby the anthropologist...

B: Loses the ability to be an engaged observer

Which project would be best suited to parachute ethnography?

B: Study of community response to a disaster

If you wanted to have consistent responses, what kind of interview would you use?

B: Survery Interview

The difference between a survey and a strutted interview is...

B: Survey questions are closed-ended;structued interviews are not

Ethical issues facing ethnographers include all of the following except...

B: protecting informants' blood samples and other biological information

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

C: Action Anthropology

An important element required for successful "rapid appraisal" data collection is...

C: Good general knowledge of the area/topic being studied