Anthropology Chapter 3: Ethnography
An anthropologist interested in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking...
A: An epic perspective
Cultural anthropologists do research by...
A: Building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time
A word that best describes participant observation would be...
C: Unstructured
The comparative method...
C: Uses data from many different societies
Which method is an extended conversation that can shed light on how social institutions change over time?
D: Life Histories
This type of interaction may include playing basketball, cooking, dining, or having coffee with informants.
D: Participant observation
Using life history interviews, researchers are able to...
D: Understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community
The people anthropologists gather data from are called...
C: Informants
Which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships?
C: Intersubjective
___ are important for an anthropologists to write down because they reflect his observations, which can also be useful data.
A: Headnotes
The purpose of field-notes is ...
A: To provide written records of information that an anthropologist creates
"Going native" refers to a process whereby the anthropologist...
B: Loses the ability to be an engaged observer
Which project would be best suited to parachute ethnography?
B: Study of community response to a disaster
If you wanted to have consistent responses, what kind of interview would you use?
B: Survery Interview
The difference between a survey and a strutted interview is...
B: Survey questions are closed-ended;structued interviews are not
Ethical issues facing ethnographers include all of the following except...
B: protecting informants' blood samples and other biological information
Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is called...
C: Action Anthropology
An important element required for successful "rapid appraisal" data collection is...
C: Good general knowledge of the area/topic being studied
