Exam 3: Researching Culture

Kirsten Hastrup was disappointed about how little her photographs failed to capture and convey of the richness, such as light, sounds, jokes and laughter of the __________ event.

An ethnography is __________.

What are some of the key ethical issues in cultural anthropology and how do they make cultural anthropology different from another discipline that you have studied

Lanita Jacobs-Huey's study of African-American women's hair culture is an example of __________ research.

Examples of steps in __________ that come before going to the field is project selection, funding the project, language learning, buying equipment, and gaining permission from officials.

A major challenge facing the Trobriand Islanders today is the large number of western tourists.

Name three microcultures that the textbook mentions as affecting fieldwork and describe the effects of one of them on an anthropologist's experience.

Discuss one example of danger in doing fieldwork and describe a way of reducing that danger.

When Tony Whitehead, an African American anthropologist, did fieldwork in Jamaica, he was surprised that __________.

How has research in anthropology changed since the nineteenth century? Mention specific figures in the development of research methods.

When doing fieldwork, establishing rapport __________.

During Christa Salamandra's research in Damascus, Syria, some people suspected that she was a tax collector.

Many Institutional Review Boards now accept the possibility of informed oral consent in some research situations.

The life history approach __________.

A major catalyst to the adoption of a code of ethics by the American Anthropological Association was __________.

Cultural anthropologists who use the interview method feel that only the open-ended interview provides reliable data.

Liza Dalby's research among the geisha of Japan involved the study of a microculture based on which factor?