What types of questions would an anthropologist ask when conducting research on a community of people?
If the purpose of this assignment is to train you to think as an anthropologist, as I suspect, I would have to disagree with the participant observation suggestion. Participant observation has its place, but it is not a great way to develop or maintain objectivity–already a hard task in social science. Anthropology typically places a lot of emphasis on values like religion, family life, mating patterns, economy, diet, clothing etc. and their related rituals, including the influence of geography and climate on those values. Since anthropology, like other social sciences, seeks valid generalizations, I would aim questions at people that might help form generalizations, i.e. frequency of church attendance, age at first marriage, average number of children, divorce rate, blue collar/white collar industry, relative modesty of dress, etc.
