Chapter 3

Question 1

Fieldwork

Answer 1

Long term immersion in a community normally involving firsthand research in a specific study community or seee arch setting where researcher can observe people’s behavior and have conversations or interview with members of the community

Question 2

Participant Observation

Answer 2

The standard research method used by cultural anthropologist that requires the researcher to live in the community he/she is studying to observe and participate day by day

Question 3

Open ended interview

Answer 3

Any conversation with and informant in which the researcher allows the informant to take the conversation to related topics that the informant rather than the researcher Feels are important

Question 4

Intersubjectivity

Answer 4

The realization that knowledge about other people emerges out of relationships and perceptions individuals have with each other

Question 5

Interview

Answer 5

Any systematic conversation with an informant to collect field research data ranging from a highly structured set of questions to the most open ended ones

Question 6

Informant

Answer 6

Any person an anthropologist gets days from in the study community especially a person who is interviewed or who provides information about what the anthropologist has observed or heard

Question 7

Field notes

Answer 7

Information the anthropologist collects or transcribes during fieldwork

Question 8

Headnotes

Answer 8

Mental notes an anthropologist makes while in the field which may or may not end up in formal field notes or journals

Question 9

Human relations area files

Answer 9

A comparative anthropological database that allows east reference to coded information about several hundred cultural traits for more than 350 societies

Question 10

Genealogical method

Answer 10

A systematic methodology for recording kinship relations and how Kim terms are used in different societies

Question 11

Life histories

Answer 11

Any survey of an informants life including such topics of residence occupations marriage family and difficulties

Question 12

Ethnohistories

Answer 12

The study of cultural change in societies and periods for which the community has no written histories or historical documents relying heavily on oral histories

Question 13

Action anthropology

Answer 13

An approach to anthropological research that seeks to study and at the same time improve community welfare

Question 14

Participatory action research

Answer 14

Research method in which the research questions data collection and data analysis are defined through collaboration between the researcher and the subjects of research

Question 15

Primary materials

Answer 15

Original sources such as field notes that are prepared by someone who is Directly personal knowledge of the research subjects

Question 16

Secondary material

Answer 16

Sources such censuses regional surveys or historical reports that are compiled from data collected by Simone other than field researcher