Why is ethnography one of the most valuable and distinctive tools of the applied anthropologist?
A. It produces a statistically unbiased summary of human responses to set stimuli.
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 is valuable insider's data that can be routinely sold to multinational corporations and state agencies without the consent of the people studied.
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.
Answer: B
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