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What are the disadvantages of oral anthropology as a source of information.

      

What are the disadvantages of oral anthropology as a source of information.

  

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Eric
a. It is an expensive method as it involves living among the people.
b. It is a time-consuming method of acquiring information.
c. It is difficult for a researcher to adapt to the environment since the people they are studying
may be of a totally different culture. Where they succeed in adapting, they face the risk of losing
their own culture.
d. People under study may try to behave differently when the researcher is around. A researcher
may therefore miss important details.
ericmunguti answered the question on September 24, 2018 at 04:31


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