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.


ANSWER:
e

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