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| The dysfunctional psychosocial symptoms of stress from prolonged, constant interaction with another culture |
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| Permission from the authorities and the studied community to enter the scene to conduct research |
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| The research activity of collecting information and constructing diagrams of kin relationships. The term is also applied to the reulsting kin diagrams |
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| The very knowledgable individuals who have a knack for explaining their own culture and a willingness to share with the fieldworker |
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| A rule of descent specifying that children are members of the kin group of their mother, not their father |
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| describes the anthropologist's preference for studying cultures by observing people with a minimum of interference in their activities. The opposite of experimental |
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| A research method of joining in the daily life of the studied community as much as possible, to acquire a sense of how things are done, or said, and how the various aspects of life fit together |
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| A rule of descent specifying that children are members of the kin group of their father, not their mother |
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| The research method of analyzing how people use space in communication and social interaction |
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| A degree of mutual understanding between the ethnographer and the studied community as to who the ethnographer is and what she or he is doing in the community |
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