"Ethnography and Culture", "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari", "Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas"

T or F. Gmelch's article, "Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas," describes a conflict caused by his student's naïve realism as she did fieldwork in a rural Barbadian community.

True

T or F. In his article, "Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas," Gmelch describes how one of his study abroad students ran into trouble when she began living with a Rastafarian.

False

T or F. Gmelch notes that female students from the U.S. find it nearly impossible to conduct fieldwork in Barbados because they are unwittingly disrespectful to Barbadians.

False

T or F. When Gmelch learned about the difficulties his study abroad student was having in her homestay village, he read her field notes and discovered that she had been talking to and accompanying a Rastafarian named Joseph.

True

T or F. In his article, Gmelch argues that the U.S. students often work on the idea of personal autonomy, meaning that if they see what they believe is truth they can act without concern for what others think.

True

According to Gmelch (Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas), when his students do fieldwork in rural Barbadian communities

they ignore the fact that class distinctions may be present in such communities

George Gmelch (Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas), notes that American students often behave according to a principle called personal autonomy when they live among people in other societies. This means that

if they see what they believe is "truth," they can act without concern for what others think

According to Gmelch (Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas), the first thing he did after his student, Johanna, told him she was being shunned by the Barbadian villagers where she was doing her research was

meet with local elders to discover their views on the problem

Gmelch concludes on the basis of his student's negative experience in a Barbadian village (Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas), that

U.S. students assume that Barbadian communities are homogeneous and fail to appreciate the social dynamics found in small face-to-face communities

According to Gmelch (Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas), Barbadian villagers shunned his U.S. study abroad student because she

was seen talking to and leaving the village with Joseph