anthro 201 wwu exam 1
Critical cultural relativism asserts ____.
that power differences between people who accept cultural practices should be used to understand cultures
Even though anthropologists use parts of the scientific method, some don't see what they do as science because
the complexity of social behavior prevents any completely objective analysis of human culture
The primary ethical responsibility of anthropologists is to
the individuals and groups they study
The word "anthropology" derives from the Greek anthropos and logos and literally means
the study of humans.
. Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is
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. Westby's concept of dynamic literacy is best characterized as
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An anthropologist who studies the relationship between language and culture is working in the field of
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An important ethical concern for anthropologists is to
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Animal call systems
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Are emotions such as anger experienced the same across cultures?
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Data gathered from personal interviews, observations, and oral histories is
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Ethnographies that provide 'thick description' of culture are valued because they provide
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In Bourgois' ethnographic account of crack in Harlem he uses ____ to help the reader understand the crack economy.
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In contemporary ethnography, anthropologists often provide a description of a "foreign word" and then adopt it. This action is known as ____
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Linguists estimate that there are between _______ living languages today.
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Marx proposed that there are ____ constraints on human agency. An example of this is the inheritance of wealth or property.
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Of the human adaptive modalities discussed in lecture, which is the most rapid and plastic (ie displays plasticity)
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Systematic conversations with informants to collect data are called ____.
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The Human Terrain System program of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, used anthropologists to help soldiers understand village politics and translate information.
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The feature of human language known as productivity signifies that a finite set of symbols and rules can be combined into a/an ______ set of novel messages.
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The insiders view of culture is known as the
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The minimum bits of sound that native speakers recognize as distinct are known as
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The phone /!/ as found in the word !Kung
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The study of grammatical categories, such as tense and word order, is called
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The use of Arabic script to phonetically transcribe the phones of Pular, or Wolof is
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When Willson defines and adopts the term nêga in her ethnography she communicates something more than 'black', this strategy in ethnography is known as a
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When male and female ethnographers conduct fieldwork they enter into the same roles in the host culture so the usually make the same findings.
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The subfield of anthropology that studies the material remains of past cultures, often focusing on settlement patterns, is called
Archaeology
According to the textbook, a key feature of _____ is that it refers to the taken-for-granted notions, rules, moralities, and behaviors within a social group that feel natural.
Culture
The process through which we acquire and transmit culture is known as______.
Enculturation
The example from lecture where how close you are expected to stand to others while waiting in line varies between the US and Taiwan is an example of
Proxemics
The moral and intellectual principle that one should withhold judgment about seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices is _____.
cultural relativism
In anthropology, the detailed description of a single society based on fieldwork is called
ethnography
ethnology
focuses on comparison of cultures for theoretical understanding
The ____ perspective aims to identify and understand cultures in their entirety.
holistic
A symbol
is something that conventionally stands for something else
