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useful methodology because
(A) life stories provide deeper insights into a culture
than the hypothesizing of academics who are not
members of that culture
(B) life stories can be collected easily and they are not
subject to invalid interpretations
(C) ethnologists have a limited number of research
methods from which to choose
(D) life stories make it easy to distinguish between the
important and unimportant features of a culture
(E) the collection of life stories does not require a
culturally knowledgeable investigator
4. Information in the passage suggests that which of
the following may be a possible way to eliminate
bias in the editing of life stories?
(A) Basing all inferences made about the culture
on an ethnological theory
(B) Eliminating all of the emotion-laden information
reported by the informant
(C) Translating the informant”s words into the
researcher”s language
(D) Reducing the number of questions and carefully
specifying the content of the questions that the
investigator can ask the informant
(E) Reporting all of the information that the informant
provides regardless of the investigator”s personal
opinion about its intrinsic value
5. The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to
(A) question an explanation
(B) correct a misconception
(C) critique a methodology
(D) discredit an idea
(E) clarify an ambiguity
6. It can be inferred from the passage that a characteristic
of the ethnological research on Native Americans
conducted during the nineteenth century was the use
of which of the following?
(A) Investigators familiar with the culture under study
(B) A language other than the informant”s for recording
life stories
(C) Life stories as the ethnologist”s primary source of
information
(D) Complete transcriptions of informants” descriptions
of tribal beliefs
(E) Stringent guidelines for the preservation of cultural
data