By the end of this section, you will be able to:
- Define participant observation and identify best practices associated with it.
- Describe what makes a good informant for anthropological research.
- Describe best practices for conducting an interview from an unbiased and emic perspective.
- Explain the concept of ownership of cultural information.
- Identify the rights of study informants.
- List practices required by institutional review boards before research can begin.
- Describe the aim of long-term research projects in anthropology.
This lesson has no exercises.
The content of this course has been taken from the free Anthropology textbook by Openstax