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Key informants are usually chosen by conducting a |
| | A) | random sample. |
| | B) | series of formal interviews for the position. |
| | C) | judgment sample. |
| | D) | stratified sample. |
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The drawbacks of the random sample include the |
| | A) | lack of stratification by age, gender, or wealth. |
| | B) | small size of the sample. |
| | C) | likelihood that everyone has an equal chance to be interviewed. |
| | D) | involvement of opinion, which makes results too subjective. |
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The ________ view refers to the outsider's perspective, and the _______ view is the native's perspective, which the anthropologist is attempting to understand. |
| | A) | etic, emic |
| | B) | observation, participant |
| | C) | emic, etic |
| | D) | participant, observation |
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What is the primary method used by ethnographers to study kinship relationships? |
| | A) | informal interview |
| | B) | genealogical |
| | C) | life history |
| | D) | formal interview |
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The feelings of helplessness, homesickness, disorientation, anger, and frustration that occur when a person experiences exposure to another society's culture is |
| | A) | life shock. |
| | B) | tourist's syndrome. |
| | C) | culture shock. |
| | D) | psychological syndrome. |
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How did Napoleon Chagnon gain rapport with his informants? |
| | A) | He gave the people some of his supply of peanut butter. |
| | B) | He learned the language fluently. |
| | C) | He practiced using string figures with the children. |
| | D) | He used a machete to cut their canoes loose in the river. |
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What was the primary source of culture shock when the textbook author, Roberta Edwards Lenkeit, conducted her fieldwork in Spain? |
| | A) | She had difficulties with the language. |
| | B) | She was sexually harassed. |
| | C) | There was insufficient warm water for showers. |
| | D) | The bed was too small. |
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Anthropologists use theoretical models to |
| | A) | provide a framework for understanding culture. |
| | B) | conduct research without doing fieldwork. |
| | C) | confuse the lay public. |
| | D) | conform to the ethical standards set forth by the American Anthropological Association. |
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According to the AAA code of ethics, an anthropologist's primary ethical responsibility is toward |
| | A) | the colleagues who work on the project. |
| | B) | the funding agency. |
| | C) | the people with whom they work. |
| | D) | the discipline of anthropology. |
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When an ethnographic account includes the personal reactions of the fieldworker to the field situation it is called what type of ethnography? |
| | A) | classical |
| | B) | personal |
| | C) | reactive |
| | D) | reflexive |
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Which of the following is the initial part of the field research process? |
| | A) | Writing reports to submit to government agencies in the host country. |
| | B) | Practicing participant observation. |
| | C) | Establishing rapport with informants. |
| | D) | Recording data via photography, notes, audiotape, or video. |
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The major advantage of the formal interview technique is |
| | A) | the reduction of situational bias. |
| | B) | the ease of quantifying results. |
| | C) | the ability to control all of the variables. |
| | D) | the comfort and resulting candor of the informant. |
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