ANTH Quiz #3 Ethnography
Fieldwork involves
all of the above
Ethical issues facing ethnographers include all of the following except
protecting informants' blood samples and other biological information
T/F: Anthropologists do not consider unstructured, casual conversations data
false
An anthropologist might consider doing 'anthropology at a distance' because
all of the above
In which of the following locations might you find an anthropologist doing fieldwork?
all of the above
The difference between a survey and a structured interview is
all of the above
What kind of data do anthropologists gather from doing interviews?
all of the above
A central technique involved in an informal, open-ended interview is to
allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview
Cultural anthropologists do research by
building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time
Multi-sited ethnography is an example of which method?
comparative method
T/F: Anthropologists use just three methods: interviews, field notes and participant observation.
false
T/F: Cultural anthropology is one of the most quantitative of the social sciences.
false
T/F: To study culture one must travel to distant, far-off places.
false
Which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships?
intersubjective
Which method is important for understanding past social institutions and how they change?
life histories
'Going native' refers to a process whereby the anthropologist
loses the ability to be an engaged observer
T/F: A critical reason for taking field notes is that there may be a long lag time between fieldwork and writing and publishing about it.
true
T/F: 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
Using life history interviews, researchers are able to
understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community
A word that best describes participant observation is
unstructured
