Why Do Ethnographers Typically Spend at Least a Year Living

question 33

Multiple Choice

Why do ethnographers typically spend at least a year living with the people they are studying?

• A) sometime in the past an anthropologist stayed one year and this set the pattern
• B) it takes that long to collect data for a detailed description of customary behavior
• C) it can be done in a month, but research grants will pay for the whole year
• D) actually, no one ever stays that long because of illnesses, etc.

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