What role did the anthropologist

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What role did the anthropologist, Joans, play when, in 1978, six elderly Native women from the Bannock and Shoshoni tribes in Idaho were accused by a local social services agency of fraud? Group of answer choices Joans acted as an expert witness and testified successfully that the women did not have the kind of cultural understanding to comprehend what was expected of them. The women did not have an anthropologist to help them in court, and ended up paying fines and going to jail for something they did not understand. Joans reached out to the National Social Security Administration on behalf of the women. Joans acted as their lawyer, not requiring them to pay for her services.How does the chapter suggest that anthropologists get recognized more often for their work to help the common good? Group of answer choices News outlets need to seek out anthropologists' comments as expert testimony. Anthropologists should hire media managers to help promote their actions to the larger public. Anthropologists need to demonstrate the good they do on an ongoing basis. Anthropologists should begin to work from the "top down" instead of from the "bottom up."

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