Reflecting today's world, in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and on a larger scale. The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that
A) challenges anthropologists concerned with salvaging isolated and untouched cultures around the world.
B) becomes less useful and valuable to understanding culture.
C) is increasingly multi-sited and multi-timed, integrating analyses of external organizations and forces to understand local phenomena.
D) is more traditional, given anthropologists' concerns of defending the field's roots.
E) requires that researchers stay in the same site for more than three years.

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Flexibility and larger scale in fieldwork have led to an ethnography that is increasingly multi-sited and multi-timed, integrating analyses of external organizations and forces to understand local phenomena. This approach recognizes that culture is not isolated and can be influenced by various external factors, and thus requires a more comprehensive analysis.

Reflecting Today's World, in Which People, Images, and Information Move