ANTH-125 Chapter 3 Quiz
In order to study culture one must travel to distant, far-off places.
False
Anthropologists of the 1880s are referred to as "armchair anthropologists" because they never traveled abroad and they gathered data from other people's reports.
True
A central technique involved in an informal, open-ended interview is to
allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview
An anthropologist interested in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking
an emic perspective
Cultural anthropologists do research by
building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time
The people anthropologists gather data from are called
informants
"Going native" refers to a process whereby the anthropologist
loses the ability to be an engaged observer
This type of interaction may include playing basketball, cooking, dining, or having coffee with informants.
participant observation
An important ethical concern for anthropologists is to
protect their informants
The purpose of fieldnotes is to
provide written records of information that an anthropologist collects