Anthropologists use an array of data collection types. Qualitative data collection in anthropology usually falls into two main types. One is interview. What is the other? Joralemon notes that this type is use to help overcome the multifactorial inputs of studying people in their "natural settings"$---$ an accomplishment impossible in experimental scientific methods.

C$.$ Participant observation

A$.$ Survey and Blometrics

D$.$ Testing Social Hypotheses

B$.$ Focus Groups