What is participant observation?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: It is a fieldwork method in which the cultural anthropologist lives with the people under study and observes their everyday lives.

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Refer to the figure below. Which of the following could have caused the shift in the supply curve?



A) an increase in the price of a substitute good in production
B) a good state of nature for the production of Good R
C) a decrease in the price of Good R
D) a decrease in the cost of producing Good R

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Remote sensing techniques will probably completely replace archaeological excavation in the near future

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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A painful disease in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells change into abnormal shapes is called:

a. anemia b. natural blood selection c. trisomy 21 d. sickle-cell anemia

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One of the reasons the discovery of the specimen Au. garhi and other materials in its site is important is that it provided evidence that large mammals were being butchered, which suggests that australopiths were stone toolmakers with some capacity for culture.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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