Participant Observation Is

question 29

Multiple Choice

Participant observation is:

• A) an archaeological teaching strategy where students are introduced to excavation techniques by participating in real archaeological digs.
• B) a research strategy employed by linguistic anthropologists to help revive dying languages.
• C) the primary strategy of cultural anthropologists in which data are gathered by questioning and observing people while the observer lives in their society.
• D) a research strategy mostly employed by biological anthropologists while studying human biological variation.

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