Discuss what would be an "ideal" relationship between the anthropologist and the key informants? What kinds of problems might an anthropologist encounter with these relationships? Would friendships with informants affect the research? If so, how? How could an anthropologist avoid or minimize those problems?
An ideal relationship with an anthropologist and his/ her key informants would be the way that they survey them. The problems that they might face would be, not getting the right information or not enough information about them. I think that if they had a friendship with the informant it would make it a lot easier on them because they already would know about the person and their research would be a lot more accurately written down.
You make a good point in saying that the right information may not be received by the key informants. That is when you have to trust what they are telling you is the truth; which I believe may not always be the case.
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