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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 (5) the life stories of  Native Americans. 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  (10) stories, even of a single individual, could increase their 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 (15) disappearing, and that it was important to  preserve for posterity as much information as could be adequately recorded  before the cultures disappeared forever.      There were, however, arguments against this (20) method as a way of  acquiring accurate and complete information. Franz Boas, for example, described  autobiographies as being “of limited value, and useful chiefly for the study  of the perversion of truth by memory,'’ while Paul Radin (25) contended that  investigators rarely spent enough time with the tribes they were observing,  and inevitably derived results too tinged by the investigator’s own emotional  tone to be reliable. Even more importantly, as these life stories (30) 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 given  tribe. Native Americans recognized that the essence of their lives could not  (35) 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 Native American narrators to distort their  cultures, as (40) taboos had to be broken to speak the names of dead  relatives crucial to their family stories.    Despite all of this, autobiography remains a useful tool for  ethnological research: such personal reminiscences and impressions,  incomplete as they (45) may be, are likely to throw more light on the working of the mind and emotions than any amount of speculation from  an ethnologist or ethnological theorist from another culture.    13.        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   这道题完全看不懂在问啥,请大家帮忙解释一下,十分感谢, 排版实在不好意思,我不知道咋回事,复制下来就成这样,实在不好意思,

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先直译：可以从文章中推测出人种学家的调查（限制调查的内容先不看）的一个特点是采用了一下那个方法？换言之，就是以下哪个方法是人种学家调查方法的特点？

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