Hurston's scholarly career is associated with which field in the notes?

• A. anthropology
• B. psychology
• C. economics
• D. sociology

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is recognizing where Hurston’s scholarly work sits professionally. Hurston is best known for her fieldwork, folklore collection, and ethnographic studies that explore culture, language, and belief systems within African American and Caribbean communities. This approach—studying people in their cultural contexts, documenting traditions, narratives, and everyday practices—belongs to anthropology, especially the boasian tradition of field-based cultural study.

Psychology focuses on mental processes, economics on production and markets, and sociology on social structures; while there are overlaps, Hurston’s work centers on culture and lived experience in a way that aligns most closely with anthropology. So the field associated with her scholarly career is anthropology.