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Discuss the characteristics of participant-observation and how this method contributes to ethnographic understanding.  How is this method characteristically different from other methods of social science research?

ESSAY KEY POINTS:

*The anthropologists goes native.

*Eating a people's food, speaking their languages and personally experiencing their habits and customs.

*One learns by learning how to behave acceptably.

*Careful observation is needed for an in-depth overview.

*Social, political, economic and religious institutions must be examined.

*The holistic perspective is used.

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