Chapter 3 Anthropology
An emic approach focuses on
what people in the study area say about their won culture, gathering data on culturally shared rules for behavior, explanations for culture offered by members of that culture, events that have meaning for members of a particular culture
Compared to Malinowski's research in the Trobriands, Wiener's restudy addressed
women's lives
When doing fieldwork, establishing rapport
can involve exchanging gifts with the local people
In the Trobriand Islands, the British colonialists substituted which activity for local warfare
cricket
research that is guided by a hypothesis is
deductive
A key factor that helps in selecting a research project is
finding a topic that has been neglected by previous researchers, a certain degree of intuition and luck, relating to a current issue of importance such as refugee movements, and finding a place that was studied long ago and merits restudy
Interpretivist anthropologists tend to favor which kind of research approach?
inductive
According to the code of ethics of the American Anthropological Association, the anthropologist's first responsibility is to
protect the people studies from harm related to the research
Given current globalization and the rarity of small isolated cultures, many contemporary cultural anthropologists have abandoned
the concept of holism
On the basis of his experience in the Trobriand Islands during World War I, Bronislaw Malinowski is generally considered to be
the father of participant observation
One thing about which most cultural anthropologists agree is
the importance of doing fieldwork
An ethnography is
the main way cultural anthropologists present their findings about culture, a descriptive writing about a culture, and an important aspect of anthropological research
People's naming of places is called
toponymy