Chapter 3 Self-Assessment Quiz

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. Cultural anthropologists do research by

building trusting rapport and relationships with people over a long period of time* correct incorrect

gathering data to produce statistical models correct incorrect

focusing on single dimensions of people's lives correct incorrect

studying economic data correct incorrect

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

anthropological fieldwork correct incorrect

participant observation correct incorrect

journalism correct incorrect

cultural relativism correct incorrect

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. The people anthropologists gather data from are called

partners correct incorrect

employees correct incorrect

informants correct incorrect

subjects correct incorrect

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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 correct incorrect

unstructured correct incorrect

semistructured correct incorrect

survey correct incorrect

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. Fieldnotes are

notes anthropologists take in their heads correct incorrect

shorthand notes that are written down during an interview correct incorrect

the transcription of a recorded interview correct incorrect

information anthropologists write down about conversations, festivals, and daily life in order to remember it later and process information correct incorrect

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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 correct incorrect

archival data correct incorrect

life histories correct incorrect

genealogical method correct incorrect

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. Action anthropology is

done by development agents correct incorrect

avoids issues related to social justice correct incorrect

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

no longer practiced in anthropology correct incorrect

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. When there is sensitive information, anthropologists might not share the identities of their

school correct incorrect

informants correct incorrect

funding agencies correct incorrect

themselves correct incorrect

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. Generally anthropologists share their fieldnotes, because those notes inevitably contain information that is interesting.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Anthropology is different from journalism because journalists' data are protected by law.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect