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According to brackette williams, fieldwork can become a form of "socially required homework," giving the anthropologist new perspectives with which to confront life's daily challenges. Consider your own process of learning about college culture as a form of fieldwork. Write a sentence or two about how a new perspective you've been exposed to in college has affected a challenge or decision you have faced.

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I believe the answer is: Fieldwork allows anthropologists to be exposed to a variety of new opinions, perspectives, and ways of looking at the world that help us better understand the opinions and ideas of others while simultaneously influencing our own outlooks

When a certain anthropologist observe a certain culture from outside perspective, there would be a couple of information that the anthropologist wouldn't understand since he/she does not embodied the culture. After doing a fieldwork such things would be seem more relatable, which would deepen the anthropologist's understanding about that culture.

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