ant 100 #1

Students of anthropology tend to be interested in all of the following except:

A goal of choosing a superior culture.

Which of the following is always described as a symbol?

A national flag

In the United States, anthropology has traditionally included for subdisciplines. They are:

Cultural anthropology, anthropological linguistics, archaeology, and biological anthropology.

Which of the following best describes the anthropological approach to other cultures?

Cultural relativism

Which of the following was the core belief of Franz Boas?

Cultures are products of their own histories.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic shared by all cultures?

Cultures are transmitted biologically.

What is the significance of the opening story on the Nacirema people?

It illustrates how culture can be viewed from more than one perspective

How would you best characterize a subculture?

It is a group within a dominant society that does not share the society's norms and values.

Which theoretical approach argues that no knowledge is objective and that all knowledge is influenced by the observer's own culture, social position, and gender?

Postmodernism

Anthropologists consider that all of the following are characteristic of culture except:

Practiced by as few as one individual.

Ethnography is the part of cultural anthropology that:

Provides a description of society or culture

An emic approach to the study of culture is one that emphasizes:

The description of a culture from the point of view of a member of the culture.

To say that anthropology is holistic means that anthropologists are particularly interested in:

The integration of biological, sociocultural, and environmental factors in explaining human behavior.

Which of the following is a weakness is using an organic analogy for human culture?

The organic analogy implies that properly functioning human societies are stable and conflict-free.

Franz Boas was an early proponent of the idea of cultural relativism. This means that:

Values and customs be understood in terms of the culture of which they are a part.

Early anthropologists who relied on travelers and missionaries for their field work data were called:

armchair anthropologists

The primary means through which humans adapt to their environment is:

culture

The process of learning to be a member of a specific cultural group is called:

encultruration

Researchers who view the actions of other people simply in terms of the degree to which they correspond to their own notions of the ways people should behave are:

ethnocentric

The hallmark of American anthropological fieldwork is:

participant observation