Ch. 3: Fieldwork

_______________ is a key element of anthropological fieldwork because it is a systematic research strategy of "just hanging out."

Participant observation

Anthropology is different from journalism because journalists' data is protected by law. (True or False)

True

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

action anthropology

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

an emic perspective

Fieldwork involves

becoming involved in people's lives

Cultural anthropologists do research by

building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time

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

ethnohistory

Which of the following is the defining methodology of the discipline of anthropology?

fieldwork

When anthropologist go into the field, they

go with a set of questions they want to ask and have answered

The people anthropologists gather data from are called

informants

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

intersubjective

An important ethical concern for anthropologists is to

protect their informants

Ethical issues facing ethnographers include all of the following except

protecting informants blood samples and other biological information

The purpose of fieldnotes is to

provide written records of information that an anthropologist collects

The difference between a survey and a structured interview is

survey questions are closed ended; structured interviews are not

An anthropologist might consider doing "anthropology at a distance" because

there is conflict or violence in the field site

Using life history interviews, researchers are able to

understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community

The comparative method

uses data from many different societies