ANTH 1003 - WEEK 4 QUIZ

Cultural anthropology is one of the most quantitative of the social sciences.

false

Cultural anthropologists use just three methods

FALSE

What kind of data do anthropologists gather from doing interviews? terms for biological species details about court cases life histories opinions on upcoming elections all of the above

all of the above

When cultural anthropologists go into the field they go with a set of questions they want to ask and have answered they often change the focus of their question to fit what they are seeing they often go with the flow of everyday life, even if it seems off-topic at the time all of the above

all of the above

A form of non-portable material culture that a human has made and modified is called a/an____________.

feature

The Law of Superposition says that:

sedimentary layers are deposited in a time sequence with the oldest on the bottom and the youngest on the top.

Which project would likely require the assistance of a geomorphologist?

study of landscape change

Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is called

ACTION RESEARCH

In which of the following locations would you likely find an anthropologist doing fieldwork? a factory a mental institution a New York City neighborhood the Amazon rain forest any of the above

Any of the above

A critical reason for taking field notes is that there may be a long lag time between fieldwork and writing and publishing about it.

True