- Interviews (structured and open-ended)
- Shorthand notes
- Headnotes
- Participant observation
- Comparative method
- Geological method
- Ethnohistory
- Action research

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Fieldwork is important in anthropology. Anthropologist collect data wherever the data lives and records their findings. Data may be found in a city, small village, cave, tropical forest, or a laboratory.

Fieldwork in Anthropology 

Shook, B., Nelson, K., Aguilera, K., & Braff, L. (2019). Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology. American Anthropological Association Arlington. 978-1-931303-62-0

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