Upon successful completion of this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Identify anthropology’s dialogic problem in the story of Pad Sindon.
2. Identify the basic questions that constitute the dialogic approach and explain the value of asking those questions.
3. Describe the four features of a dialogue.
4. Contrast an ordinary dialogue with an anthropological dialogue.
5. Explain how an anthropological dialogue may be thought of as a "public construction."
6. Identify six ways to conduct an anthropological dialogue.
7. Discuss whether the costs of being dialogical exceed the benefits to cultural understanding and scientific explicitness.