Chapter 3 Student Quiz 1

. Building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time is one of the hallmarks of

anthropological fieldwork.

cultural tunnel vision.

journalism.

cultural relativism.

. Which type of interviewing technique allows informants to elaborate?

structured

genealogical

semistructured

survey

. Action anthropology is

done by development agents.

avoids issues related to social justice.

an approach that includes the communities it is studying to participate in the research.

no longer practiced in anthropology.

. Secondary materials include

interview transcripts.

field notes.

newspaper clippings.

voice recordings.

. Anthropologists are increasingly doing research

without knowing the language.

on their families.

undercover.

in their native countries.

. Fieldnotes are

notes anthropologists take in their heads.

shorthand notes that are written down during an interview.

the transcription of a recorded interview.

information anthropologists write down about conversations and daily life to remember it later and process information.

. An anthropologist who is learning how to do laundry on the farm with his or her informants is doing

open-ended interviews.

participant observation.

cultural domain analysis.

quantitative data.

. A focused research strategy aimed at obtaining research questions within a month or two is called

longitudinal data.

latitudinal data.

rapid appraisal anthropology.

action-oriented research.

. Which of the following is an example of the comparative method?

comparing life histories from two different age groups in a given community

multisited fieldwork

using both primary and secondary material

deploying multiple theories in analyzing data and comparing the final results

. Which of the following is a piece of primary materials?

archival documents

fieldnotes

newspaper articles

court transcripts

. If an anthropologist is doing "anthropology at a distance" they likely decided on this method because

they have too many teaching responsibilities at home.

the project would not benefit from participant observation.

they may not be safe in the field due to violence or war.

they have studied large museum collections of cultural artifacts from their region of interest.

. What is essential in doing good "rapid appraisal" research?

extensive familiarity with the topic of interest and the area being visited

advanced technology to record data quickly and exactly

a large team to cover as much ground as possible

well-planned experiments that can be carried out under the on-the-ground conditions

. Anthropologists use life history interviews to

make elders in the community feel important.

understand how age may affect someone's position within the community.

track factual errors between research participants.

take a break from the hustle and bustle of participant observation.

. Which kind of data would be least important to a cultural anthropologist?

genetic sequencing

archival documents

oral histories

kinship charts

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