The practice of cultural anthropology; studying the minute to minute workings of human societies, especially non-Western.

• A. Linguistic anthropology
• B. Archaeology
• C. Ethnography
• D. Paleopathology

Answer: (C)

Ethnography focuses on creating detailed, in-depth portraits of people’s daily lives through immersive fieldwork. In cultural anthropology, researchers live within a community, observe and participate in everyday activities, and document routines, social interactions, beliefs, and practices as they unfold hour by hour. This approach captures how people actually organize work, family, and rituals, and how cultural meanings emerge in ordinary moments, often in non-Western settings where such inside-out understanding is especially revealing. The other disciplines look at different questions: linguistic anthropology centers on language use and communication within culture; archaeology studies material remains to reconstruct past societies; paleopathology investigates diseases in ancient populations. None of these emphasize sustained, minute-by-minute observation of contemporary daily life in non-Western contexts the way ethnography does, which is why it fits the description.