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Emile Durkheim's ideas of the "sacred" and the "profane" roughly match which concept?
"holy" and "unholy"
According to the archaeological record, how old is evidence of human artistic expression?
100,000 years
Which of the following is NOT part of the working definition of "religion" for anthropology?
A shared mystic language
From an anthropological perspective, who is eligible to create and experience art?
All humans
The variety of a language that gets called "standard" is typically spoken by who?
All members of a society* (the most socially powerful group, people who have at least 2 years of college, or women)
Which of the following is NOT one of the primary 4 fields of anthropology?
Business Anthropology
Anthropologists argue that humans are born with biological sex. However they also believe what?
But gender is a cultural construct
Cross-Culturally, anthropologists find that religious and political life does what?
Can be closely intertwined
Anthropologists define art as all the ideas, forms, techniques, and strategies that humans use to do what?
Communicate their creativity and inspiration.
Anthropology's approach to the study of human diversity helps us avoid the intellectual pitfalls of what?
Ethnocentrism
What do anthropologists emphasize in definitions of art?
It is shaped by the viewer's perception as well as the artistic intent.
George Gmelch's study of baseball magic shows that what?
Magic is not just a property of "exotic" cultures.
Which of the following is NOT a factor used to determine biological sex?
Manner of speaking
Which of the following is cultural context in which American children learn about gendered norms of behavior?
Media, sports, and peers (all of the above)
Cross-Culture studies on alternate genders reveals that what?
Not every culture fixes sexuality and gender in 2 distinct categories.
Which of the following animals is known to have language?
Only humans* (chimpanzees, border collies, or all great apes)
The idea that different languages create different ways of thinking is called what?
The Spair-Whorf Hypothesis
The forces of globalization have changed what?
The communities that anthropologists study, the methods that anthropologists use to do research, and how anthropologists communicate with their research participants (all of the above/all of these answer choices).
What is the central focus of research by visual anthropologists?
The production, circulation, and consumption of visual images
Anthropology is what?
The study of the full scope of human diversity
The field of sociolinguistics studies what?
The ways that language and cultural categories intersect