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HudsonKB16

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Why is ethnography one of the most valuable and distinctive tools of the applied anthropologist?
 
  A. It is valuable insider's data that can be routinely sold to multinational corporations and state agencies without the consent of the people studied.
  B. It provides a firsthand account of the day-to-day issues and challenges that the members of a given community face, as well as a sense of how those people think about and react to these issues.
  C. It produces a statistically unbiased summary of human responses to set stimuli.
  D. It is among the most economical and time-efficient tools that exist in the social sciences.
  E. It can be produced without leaving the comfort of the anthropologist's office.

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Applied anthropology is
 
  A. the purely academic dimension of anthropology.
  B. the term used for all anthropological research programs.
  C. the use of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary problems.
  D. rarely possible, as anthropological studies are not practical in the real world.
  E. not guided by anthropological theory.


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TheNamesImani

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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C


HudsonKB16

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Reply 2 on: Aug 11, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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