Exam 3: Researching Culture

Multisited research conducts fieldwork on a topic in more than one location.

Compared to Malinowski's research in the Trobriands, Weiner's restudy addressed __________.

Discuss the findings of Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands and then the findings of Weiner. Do the differences suggest that anthropologists should always work in teams comprising more than one gender?

Trobriand women's most prized material items are __________.

Men's trading networks in the __________ are called kula and they involve exchanging valued armbands and necklaces or everyday goods.

Some cultural anthropologists seek to reveal how a culture works by looking closely at one person's life.

Mary Anglin was suspected as an industrial spy in rural western North Carolina because she knew nothing about growing crops in the region.

One thing about which most cultural anthropologists agree is __________.

A key factor that helps in selecting a research project is __________.

Annette Weiner's fieldwork on women's trading networks in the Trobriand Islands is an example of a restudy.

In the Trobriand Islands, the British colonialists substituted which activity for local warfare?

Field notes, tape recordings, photographs, and videos are examples of ways that __________ record their findings while in the field.

In the Trobriand Islands, kinship follows the female line.

Given current globalization and the rarity of small, isolated cultures, many contemporary cultural anthropologists have abandoned __________.

One method of gathering data on people's time allocation patterns is asking people to keep daily logs or diaries.

Describe the difference between deductive and inductive research and how this difference relates to fieldwork methods. Discuss the kinds of ethnographies that cultural materialists and interpretivists tend to write.

The goal of the South Baffin Island __________ is to document climatically important information, indigenous knowledge, and climate change.

The Hawthorne effect refers to__________.

When an anthropologist uses both qualitative and quantitative data, the approach is called __________.

Deductive methods of research are more likely to collect quantitative data while the inductive approach tends to emphasize qualitative data.