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Learning ObjectivesAfter finishing this chapter, students should be able to understand:
- Understand the complexities and dynamics of fieldwork.
- Understand the multiple dilemmas fieldworkers face with informants and data gathering.
- Understand the complexities of a Kwakiutl marriage, based on ethnographic data collected by Franz Boas and his key informant George Hunt in the late nineteenth century.
- Understand the intricacies of an elite American wedding, based on widely-available newspaper and magazine descriptions.
- Draw conclusions on the similarities and differences of these two wedding ceremonies, and experience making conclusions about the respective cultures from diverse forms of data.
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education