Why Is Ethnography One of the Most Valuable and Distinctive

question 45

Multiple Choice

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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