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Chapter 3 Self-Assessment Quiz
Ethnography: Studying Culture
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Cultural anthropologists do research by
building trusting rapport and relationships with people over a long period of time*
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gathering data to produce statistical models
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focusing on single dimensions of people's lives
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studying economic data
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Building rapport and relationships with people over a long period of time is one of the hallmarks of
anthropological fieldwork
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participant observation
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journalism
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cultural relativism
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The people anthropologists gather data from are called
partners
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employees
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informants
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subjects
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Interviews that are a series of questions with definite answers from which researchers do not deviate (as illustrated by the population census) are
structured
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unstructured
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semistructured
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survey
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Fieldnotes are
notes anthropologists take in their heads
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shorthand notes that are written down during an interview
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the transcription of a recorded interview
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information anthropologists write down about conversations, festivals, and daily life in order to remember it later and process information
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If anthropologists want to know how kinship patterns or rituals of marriage have changed over time, which methodology would they use?
participant observation
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archival data
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life histories
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genealogical method
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Action anthropology is
done by development agents
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avoids issues related to social justice
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an approach that includes the communities it is studying to participate in the research
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no longer practiced in anthropology
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When there is sensitive information, anthropologists might not share the identities of their
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informants
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funding agencies
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themselves
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Generally anthropologists share their fieldnotes, because those notes inevitably contain information that is interesting.
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Anthropology is different from journalism because journalists' data are protected by law.
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