What is the primary advantage of document analysis as an ethnographic field method?

a. It is a documented record and can therefore be tested and proved.
b. It almost always involves multiple perspectives and accounts of a problem.
c. Official documents are easy to obtain and can be used as ways to prompt interviewees to share information.
d. It does not cost much to do this kind of work.
e. It is non-intrusive and provides large quantities of information.


e

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________ refers to the cultural change that results when two or more cultures have continuous firsthand contact.

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Elizabeth Brumfiel, citing the example of the rise of the Aztec state, hypothesizes that __________ resulted in the coercion and repression of the population

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