ANT Exam 1 Question Bank
____________ are people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries
migrants
the study of grammatical categories such as tense and word order, is called
morphology
A qualitative analysis of a needle exchange program would emphasize
needle-users' perspectives on the accessibility and the utility of the program
If you wanted to let informants discuss a topic and make connections to other issues in that process, what kind of interviews should you conduct?
open-ended interview
When language speakers use slang or metaphor, they are engaging in which concept suggested by French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure
parole
________ refers to the structure of speech sounds
phonology
_________ refers to the structure of speech sounds
phonology
An anthropologist who runs tests on how modern humans walk and what evolutionary mechanisms were at play would most likely be a(n)
physical (biological) anthropologist
A hypothetical common ancestral language of two or more living languages is called a
proto-language
The purpose of field notes is to
provide written records of information that an anthropologist collects
In a study where an anthropologist is collecting stories, memories, beliefs, jokes, conversations, interviews, and disagreements, he or she is collecting_________ data
qualitative
Marriage is a
social institution
Holism
synthesizes the entirety of human experience
For an anthropologist considering the ethical implication of his or her research, the top priority would be whether
the communities being studied will experience any negative impacts as a result of the study
The concept of "fortress conservation" would be applicable to all of the following situations except
the construction of ecotourist facilities to protect visitors from wandering lions in the Tanzanian savannas.
Traditions are
the most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture
Gerald Murray's development project to plant trees it Haiti was a success for many reasons, BUT NOT because
the project created a nursery to produce light-weight micro-seedings of fast-growing, drought resistant trees
The observation of a phenomenon followed by a hypothesis, experimentation, testing of theories, and descriptions of findings is called
the scientific method
Many non-western societies have conservation traditions that are based on distinct principles of human-nature relationship
true
Using a holistic perspective in cultural analysis, anthropologists canFruns te
understand the systemic connections between individual cultural beliefs and practices and social institutions
Which of the following is NOT true of Ebonics (also known as African American Vernacular English, or AAVE)?
AAVE is readily understood by most speakers of standard American English.
Anthropologists and journalists are similar in which of the following ways
Both interview people to learn what is happening in the community
Anthropologists draw their conclusions from information they verify via observation, rather than through logic or theory alone. This research method is known as
Empiricism
According to Edward Sapir, languages may be different but they way we think about the world is basically the same
False
What was Jacob Grimm's hypothesis about similarities across language
Many modern languages evolved from a few (or even one) language
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Media and television corporations
What happened after the Oakland Unified School District in 1996 passed a resolution that declared Ebonics (Black English) a language in its own right
National opposition compelled the school district to retract the resolution
Which of the following is an example of a social sanction
People at a meeting refuse to recognize an attendee who interrupts other speakers instead of waiting for a turn
___________ refers to the structure of speech sounds
Phonology
If you were a linguistic anthropologist interested in language ideologies in an American city, how would you devise your study?
Record the accents and dialects people use and which are considered superior or inferior
A linguistic anthropologist would be least interest in which of the following research projects
The circulation of American graphic t-shirts in sub-Saharan Africs
According to Albert Barlett, the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function
True
Which of the following is NOT true of the Ticha digital humanities project?
X - It incorporates recordings of Zapotec voices and links modern words with historical counterparts
Ethical issues facing ethnographers include all of the following except
X - controlling and protecting access to fieldnotes
When anthropologists go into the field, they
X - go as a completely clean slate, without reading anything about the topic beforehand
Traditional ecological knowledge is
X - not useful in the contemporary world
When anthropologists take a stance on a practice of belief after trying to understand it in its cultural and historical context, they are practicing
X - social sanctioning
If you were designing a participatory action research study on immigrant rights in you community, who should be doing the bulk of the investigation, analysis, and planning
X - you
An anthropologist who practices participatory action research would most likely use this method in a study of
a low-income neighborhood where a toxic waste dump is located
Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is called
action anthropology
A central technique involved in an informal, open-ended interview is to
allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview
An anthropologist interest in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking
an emic perspective
Enculturation starts
as soon as we are born
In evolutionary terms, humans are distinct from other primates with respect to their ability to use language because we
can speak using a larynx
Which of the following best describes the methodology of multisited ethnography
comparative
An anthropologist who studies how Levi's jeans are affecting fashion among rural Indonesians is a(n)
cultural anthropologist
When one social group makes a unilateral decision to take control over the symbols, practices and objects of another, they are engaging in what phenomenon?
cultural appropriation
Hybridization is about
cultural mixing
One of the primary reasons indigenous leaders criticize the dominant model for administering protected environmental areas is
dominant models assume nature must be uninhabited by people
_______is the field of study that examines moral questions of right and wrong
ethics
When people think their culture is superior to other cultures they are being
ethnocentric
Ellen Isaacs' work, presented in a TEDx Broadway talk, explores how
ethnography can discover "the hidden obvious," that influences people's behavior
The study of how people classify things in the world is called
ethnoscience
Which method would be best when doing a study on the genetic propensity for cancer in a given population
genealogical method
the research that anthropologist Karen Tranberg Hansen has done on second-hand clothing in Zambia is interesting because it
highlights how people impose local meanings on globally sourced objects
Which of the following terms refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships
intersubjective
Interpretive anthropology argues that culture
is a shared system of meaning and people make sense of their world through symbols and symbolic activities like rituals
which of the following is a feature of language
it consists of sounds organized into words according to some sort of grammar