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Two different anthropologists write about the same people. the first makes detailed field notes and conducts surveys. the second does not conduct surveys, but talks to many people in the field and takes good notes. when they publish their results, the first anthropologist's book has every single detail of the research, and the second anthropologist's book has many of the raw interviews as part of the text. we might consider the second book to be polyvocal because:

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The second anthopologist's book might be considered polyvocal because his writings contain a variety of perspectives and opinions from a wide range of people instead of a shared consensus or single point of view like the first anthropologist's book has written.

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