Author Question: Anthropologists doing fieldwork must view the culture they are studying like: a) children. b) ... (Read 95 times)

tsand2 · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Anthropologists doing fieldwork must view the culture they are studying like:

a) children.
b) moral guides.
c) ethnocentrists.
d) doctors.

Question 2

What can we learn from the anthropologist Richard Scaglions failed attempt to explain Newtons law of gravity to his Abelam friends in Papua New Guinea?

a) In trying to explain the concept, we need a textbook.
b) His audience had no science background and hence could not understand the concept.
c) We might not actually understand much of what we take as scientific fact in our society.
d) Newtons law did not apply in this context.