What is participant observation?

What will be an ideal response?


It is an approach to fieldwork in which anthropologists live among the people they study, observing their culture and where possible participating in it.

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Showing change in the composition of a population's gene pool demonstrates that evolution has occurred

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Globalization has resulted mostly in

a. increased communications via new technologies. b. reduction in labor and cost for cargo shipments between countries. c. dramatic cultural adaptation and cultural exchange. d. All of these are major results of globalization.

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Evolutionary theory is an inductive approach to societies and diversity

a. True b. False

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Upper Paleolithic cave art is found almost exclusively in Europe

a. True b. False

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