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

1. Explain some of the challenges to understanding when the same event is viewed by multiple observers with different perspectives.
2. Explain how the reflexive question improves the anthropological inquiry.
3. Employ the landscape metaphor to portray the reflexive perspective.
4. Construct arguments for and against anthropology as a science, and give your opinion of these arguments.
5. Describe some of the ways in which anthropologists and anthropology are viewed by others and how awareness of these views affects the conduct of anthropologists.
6. List some of the advantages and disadvantages when anthropologists study their "own kind."
7. Describe some ways of being reflexive in a cross-cultural encounter.
8. Describe some guidelines for being reflexive when reporting on a culture.
9. Explain some of the ways in which anthropologists strive to establish the validity of their findings.