Chapter 5 Quiz_Ethnography

Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is...rapid appraisal, participant observation, action anthropology, development anthropology.

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

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If you wanted to study patterns of kin relations in a community, which method would you use? Comparative method, Ethnohistory, Genealogical method, or Participant observation.

Genealogical method.

True or False. A rapid appraisal is when anthropologists drop into a community for just a few weeks to collect data.

True.

True or False. Open-ended questions encourage informants to talk about what they find particularly meaningful.

True.

True or False. Systematic conversations with informants to collect data are called interviews.

True.

Which project would be best suited to parachute ethnography? A study of community response to a disaster, a study of how people became religious leaders, a study of landscape change, or a study of marriage practices.

A study of community response to a disaster.

Fieldwork involves...building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time, learning the local language, or becoming involved in people's activities.

All of these.

What kinds of data can anthropologists gather from doing interviews? Details about court cases, life histories, opinions on upcoming elections, or terms for local biological species.

All of these.

True or False. Bronislaw Malinowski developed the ethnographic method, which requires the researcher to live with people for years in order to develop the "native's point of view."

True.