Anthropology Chapter 4

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

Action research

In which of the following locations would you likely find an anthropologist doing fieldwork?

a factory, mental institution, NY city neighborhood, the amazon rainforest.

One of the methods that archaeologists can use to determine potentially useful areas to excavate involves the use of

aerial surveys, surface surveys, regional surveys, GIS systems.

The comparative method

compares cognate words in different languages, focuses on one society over a long period of time, uses data from many different societies.

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

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Among cultural anthropologists, fieldwork involves

learning the local language, becoming involved in people's lives, spending a significant amount of time in the field.

If you wanted to understand very early, non-living human beings, you would likely engage in

paleoanthropology

The ability to document changes in pottery styles in non-living societies happens through

seriation

What kind of data do anthropologists gather from doing interviews?

terms for biological species, details about court cases, life histories, opinions on upcoming elections.

A word that best describes participant observation is

unstructured