Anthro test 2

Most anthropologists today

do not tie themselves to a single theoretical orientation

The language(s) most efficient at expressing abstract ideas

does not exist; no single language is most efficient.

The increase of text messaging has greatly affected culture by:

Leading to misunderstanding in intended meaning of communication.

Margaret Mead, in her research in Samoa

concluded that the emotional turbulence of adolescents in the United States is culturally rather than biologically based.

Morgan proposed that the three stages of savagery were associated with

food collecting.

People who practice horticulture

grow tree crops, seed crops, or root crops.

Nomadic pastoralism:

has no permanent villages.

The food-getting strategy used by humans for most of their existence is:

hunting and gathering.

A society's environment:

influences its food-getting strategy and sets broad limitations..

A disadvantage of participant-observation is that

only a small sample can be studied.

The study of the sound structure of a language is called:

phonology.

The meanings attached to any given word in all languages are totally

arbitrary.

French structuralism concentrates on:

the identification of mental structures that undergird social behavior.

Food production became important for humans approximately:

10,000 years ago.

What is a paleopathologist?

A physical anthropologist who studies disease among ancient peoples

Which theory argues that any culture is partially composed of traits diffused from other cultures?

American historicism

A subsistence strategy may involve various elements. Which of the following lists is most accurate for defining the term, subsistence?

How people grow, harvest, prepare, transport, market, and eat food

Which of the following is a primary weakness of French Structuralism?

It is a theory that cannot be tested empirically

High touch cultures include _________ while low touch cultures include _________.

Jewish and Arab cultures; German and Scandinavian cultures

Diffusionism and evolutionism had in common

the idea of a deductive approach.

Sociolinguistics helps one to understand

Why college students speak to their roommates more casually than their professors. How education, socio-economic status, or ethnicity contribute to language use. Changes one makes as they switch from one language to another. If social contexts affect one's use of language.

The way that people hold their bodies often communicates information about all of the following except:

bilingualism.

An example of a free morpheme is __________.

car

Agriculture

relies on animal power, mechanized technology, and non-mechanized technology for production.

Horticulture refers to the type of farming that

relies predominantly on hand tools for household consumption.

The Inuit of the Arctic region:

rely on modern technology to aid in their food collecting strategies.

The functionalist concept of universal function means:

that every component of a culture has a use.

Leslie White argued that the driving force of cultural evolution was

the amount of energy available.

Displacement, a feature of human communication, means:

the capacity to convey information about a thing or event that is hypothetical in nature.

Cultural emphasis refers to

the group of words in a language that are considered more adaptively important in that culture.