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:
A) it includes many voices from the people interviewed.
B) the voices of the informants are used to describe the ethnographer's personal perspective.
C) there is no actual survey data in the book.
D) it uses selective accounts of the informants to tell the whole story.

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The second book is polyvocal because it includes a variety of voices from the people interviewed. This means that the book is presenting multiple perspectives and viewpoints, rather than just the perspective of the anthropologist conducting the research.

Two Different Anthropologists Write About the Same People