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| Large an populous societies with social stratification and central governments |
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| An individual that an ethnographer gets to know in the field, someone who can teach him or her about their culture. (Providing the emic perspective) |
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| An approach to investigate how local people think directly (INSIDE) |
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| An investigatory approach recognizing that members of a culture often are to involved in what they are doing to interpret their culture impartially (OUTSIDE) |
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| A well-established ethnographic technique in which people learn about their ancestry by tracing their genealogies |
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| Agreement to take part in research, after having been so informed |
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| A situation in which an ethnographer talks face to face with people, asks questions, and records the answers |
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| People who can provide the most complete or useful information about particular aspects of life |
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| The recollection of a lifetime of experiences that provides a more intimate and personal cultural portrait than would be possible otherwise |
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| The long-term study of a community, region, society, culture, or other unit based on repeated visits |
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| Taking part in the events one is observing, describing, and analyzing |
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| A manageable study group in which all members of the population have an equal statistical chance of being chosen for inclusion |
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| A manageable study group used in survey research |
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| Research involving sampling, impersonal data collection, and statistical analysis |
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| Attributes that vary among members of a sample or population |
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