Question

An anthropologist publishes their book about their fieldwork in Morocco. The anthropologist interviewed many people in the field and publishes much of those raw interviews as part of the text in each chapter. Why is this a polyvocal approach?

a. There is no actual survey data in the book.
b. It uses selective accounts of the informants to tell the whole story.
c. The voices of the informants are used to describe the ethnographers personal perspective.
d. It includes many voices from the people interviewed.

Answer 1

Answer: It is a polyvocal approach because it INCLUDES MANY VOICES FROM THE PEOPLE INTERVIEWED.

A polyvocal approach can be simply said to be containing more than one voice.

It is a text or research that consists of of more than one opinion.

The anthropologists in this text used different opinions from the people in Morocco to publish his text. This is in essence using different voices or opinions.