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cagreen833

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on: Jul 10, 2018
Which of the following best describes the approach of participant observation?
 
  a. It is a focus on participation that allows the anthropologist to be self-reflexive and write the ethnographic research from a first person account.
  b. It is a direct experiential approach in which the anthropologist lives with the people under study.
  c. Participant observation means that the anthropologist uses numerous key informants to help him or her best understand another culture.
  d. This approach was used in the early years of anthropology when researchers had to travel for weeks to arrive in a community.
  e. This fieldwork method is the hallmark of anthropology and involves very intensive surveying and use of questionnaires.

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How has the use of DNA testing been beneficial in teaching university students?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


kingfahad97

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: It is integral as a mechanism in learning that race is not based on biology; that race is arbitrarily defined and socially constructed.


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