ANTH 111 Quiz
What is the fifth field?
Applied and practiced anthropology
Functionalism
Cultural practices and beliefs serve social purposes for society, such as explaining how the world works, organizing people into roles so they can get things done, and so on.
Cultural determinism
Denies factors like human biology and physical environment
The study of how people classify things in the world is called..
Ethnoscience
Cultural convergence theory
Explains the apparent disappearance of diversity
True or false: Activities that are biologically based, such as eating and sleeping, are universally practiced in the same way for all humans.
False
Multisited ethnography is an example of which method?
Geographical method
Emic perspective
Insider perspective
Holistic perspective
Through systematic connections of different parts
James Ferguson argues that development exists to...
To expand state power
Often, anthropologists use the term "_______________ " rather than "globalization" to refer to the "global" circulation of goods and people.
Transnational
True or false: Most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking it makes a mistake.
True
True or false: Cultural relativism is important because it helps anthropologists
understand and defend all the things that people in other cultures do.