Cultural Anthro CH 3&4 NNU final 2k19

Fieldwork involves

becoming involved in people's lives

animal call systems

do not combine to calls to make new call meanings

when anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on

parole

ethical issues facing ethnographers include all of the following EXCEPT

protecting informants blood samples and...

the purpose of fieldnotes is to

provide written records of info an anthro collects

a word that best describes participant observation is

unstrctured

talking about sports as a battlefield is an example of

a metaphor

Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as

a pidgin language

Which project would be best suited to parachute ethnography?

a study of community response to a disaster

according to anthropologist sherry ortner's analysis, the american flag is an example of

a summarizing symbol

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

action anthropology

an anthropologist interested in a cultural insider's prospective on that insider's culture is seeking

an emic perspective

in the melanesian conception of time, the future is spatially located

behind the body

Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called

cognate words

In order to study culture one must travel to distant, far off places

false

which of the following is the defining methodology of the discipline of anthropology?

fieldwork

if you wanted to study patterns of kin relationships in a community, which method would you use?

genealogical method

The people anthropologists gather data from are called

informants

which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships?

inter subjective

which of the following is a feature of language.

it consits of sounds orgnized in two words according to some sort of grammar

which method is an extended conversation that can shed light on how social institutions change over time?

life histories

if you studied speech patterns such as those analyzed in Robin lakoff's study of gendered speech, you might find that "talking like a lady"

marginalizes womens voices in work contexts

The study of how sounds are combined into meaningful units

morphology

anthropologist sherry ortner distinguished thee kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all the following EXCEPT

narrative symbols

the individual sounds used in languages to symbollically produce meaning are called

phonemes

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay found that if language had only three color terms, they would always be black, white, and

red

a stoplight is a visual example of which of the following

sign

an anthropologist might consider doing anthro at a distance because

there is conflict or violence in the field site

most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking makes a mistake.

true

Using life history interviews, researchers are able to

understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community

Koko and Washo were two primates who had learned

American Sign Language

they study of how people classify things in the world is called

ethnoscience

___ is a key element of anthro fieldwork because it is a systematic research strategy of hanging out

participant observation

animal call systems lack the ability to produce infinite number of word combinations. this ability in humans is called

productivity

An important ethical concern for anthropologists is to

protect their informants