participant observation:
Long-term, intense interaction with members of a community during which the researcher plunges into their daily activities as completely as possible.

semi-structured interviews
Interviews based on an interview guideline where the ethnographer loosely follows a list of questions or topics to be covered in the interview.

structured interviews
Interviews involve exposing every informant in a sample to the same stimuli. In our study, several researchers used questionnaires to elicit some data.

Definitions compiled from:

The Dictionary of Anthropology (Barfield: 1997)
Research Methods in Anthropology (Bernard 1995)

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