ANTH 111 Quiz

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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.


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