Author Question: Which of the following is NOT an example of participant observation? A. administering interviews ... (Read 70 times)

mmm · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Which of the following is NOT an example of participant observation?

A. administering interviews according to an interview schedule over the phone
B. helping out at harvest time
C. dancing at a ceremony
D. buying a shroud for a village ancestor
E. engaging in informal chit-chat

Question 2

In the field, ethnographers strive to establish rapport: a good, friendly working relationship, based on personal contact,

A. that is necessary in conducting any valuable research in the social sciences, not just anthropology.
B. that if done properly ensures the ethnographer's ability to conduct detached, unbiased research.
C. achieved in large part by engaging in participant observation.
D. and if that fails, the next option is to pay people so they will talk about their culture.
E. as well as on payment, based on local standards, for people's time spent with the researcher.