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There were, however(转折), arguments against这段讲缺点 this method as a way of acquiring accurate and complete information. Franz Boas, for example, described autobiographies as being “of limited value, and useful(具有讽刺意味) chiefly for the study of the perversion of truth by memory,” while Paul Radin contended that investigators rarely spent enough time*7C 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讲另外一个更重要的缺点, as these life stories moved from the traditional oral mode to recorded written form, much was inevitably lost(-). 两种人都主观删减信息Editors often decided what elements were significant to the field research (field research: 实际教学, 现场调查研究) on a given tribe. Native Americans recognized that the essence of their lives could not be communicated in English*6B 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 taboos had to be broken to speak the names of dead relatives crucial to their family stories.
Despite all of this(转折)后面讲优点, autobiography remains a useful*3*8( ) tool for ethnological research: such personal reminiscences and impressions, incomplete as they may be, are likely to throw more light on the working of the mind*8A世界观 and emotions than any amount of speculation*3A from an ethnologist or ethnological theorist from another culture.
1. Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?