想请教大家如何下面这道题的正选应该如何定位
At the end of the nineteenth century, a rising interest in Native American customs and an increasing desire to understand Native American culture prompted ethnologists to begin recording the life stories of Native Amer(5) ican. Ethnologists had a distinct reason for wanting to hear the stories: they were after linguistic or anthropological data that would supplement their own field observations, and they believed that the personal stories, even of a single individual, could increase their (10) understanding of the cultures that they had been observing from without. In addition many ethnologists at the turn of the century believed that Native American manners and customs were rapidly disappearing,and that it was important to preserve for posterity as(15) much information as could be adequately recorded before the cultures disappeared forever. There were, however, arguments against this method as a way of acquiring accurate and complete information. Franz Boas, for example, described autobiogra(20) phies as being “of limited value, and useful chiefly for the study of the perversion of truth by memory,” whilePaul Radin contended that investigators rarely spent enough time with the tribes they were observing, and inevitably derived results too tinged by the investi(25) gator’s own emotional tone to be reliable. Even more importantly, as these life stories moved from the traditional oral mode to recorded written form, much was inevitably lost. Editors often decided what elements were significant to the field research on a (30) given tribe. Native Americans recognized that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English and that events that they thought significant were often deemed unimportant by their interviewers.Indeed, the very act of telling their stories could force (35) Native American narrators to distort their cultures, astaboos had to be broken to speak the names of deadrelatives crucial to their family stories. Despite all of this, autobiography remains a useful tool for ethnological research: such personal reminis(40) cences and impressions, incomplete as they may be, arelikely to throw more light on the working of the mindand emotions than any amount of speculation from an ethnologist or ethnological theorist from another culture.
38. It can be inferred from the passage that a characteristic of the ethnological research on Native Americans conducted during the nineteenth century was the use of which of the following? (A) Investigators familiar with the culture under study (B) A language other than the informant’s for recording life stories (C) Life stories as the ethnologist’s primary source of information (D) Complete transcriptions of informants’ descriptions of tribal beliefs (E) Stringent guidelines for the preservation of cultural data
正选为B, 我选择了C.
C错误的原因大概是因为ethnologists是从19世纪末期才开始记录life stories, 也没有说将life stories当做primary source. 而问题问的是during the nineteenth century的研究特点.
但我无法确定有哪个句子可以推出B为正选：确实第三段开头有“as these life storeis moved from the traditional oral mode to recorded form......" "native americans recognized that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English..." 但是这些信息在我阅读时给我的感觉是，ethnologists开始record life stories之后, 先采取traditional oral mode 然后written form in another language. During the 19th century, ethnologists用何种方式研究，是否需要informant's language, 都不好推断.
请大家指教
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