ANT Exam 1 Question Bank

____________ are people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries

migrants

the study of grammatical categories such as tense and word order, is called

morphology

A qualitative analysis of a needle exchange program would emphasize

needle-users' perspectives on the accessibility and the utility of the program

If you wanted to let informants discuss a topic and make connections to other issues in that process, what kind of interviews should you conduct?

open-ended interview

When language speakers use slang or metaphor, they are engaging in which concept suggested by French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure

parole

________ refers to the structure of speech sounds

phonology

_________ refers to the structure of speech sounds

phonology

An anthropologist who runs tests on how modern humans walk and what evolutionary mechanisms were at play would most likely be a(n)

physical (biological) anthropologist

A hypothetical common ancestral language of two or more living languages is called a

proto-language

The purpose of field notes is to

provide written records of information that an anthropologist collects

In a study where an anthropologist is collecting stories, memories, beliefs, jokes, conversations, interviews, and disagreements, he or she is collecting_________ data

qualitative

Marriage is a

social institution

Holism

synthesizes the entirety of human experience

For an anthropologist considering the ethical implication of his or her research, the top priority would be whether

the communities being studied will experience any negative impacts as a result of the study

The concept of "fortress conservation" would be applicable to all of the following situations except

the construction of ecotourist facilities to protect visitors from wandering lions in the Tanzanian savannas.

Traditions are

the most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture

Gerald Murray's development project to plant trees it Haiti was a success for many reasons, BUT NOT because

the project created a nursery to produce light-weight micro-seedings of fast-growing, drought resistant trees

The observation of a phenomenon followed by a hypothesis, experimentation, testing of theories, and descriptions of findings is called

the scientific method

Many non-western societies have conservation traditions that are based on distinct principles of human-nature relationship

true

Using a holistic perspective in cultural analysis, anthropologists canFruns te

understand the systemic connections between individual cultural beliefs and practices and social institutions

Which of the following is NOT true of Ebonics (also known as African American Vernacular English, or AAVE)?

AAVE is readily understood by most speakers of standard American English.

Anthropologists and journalists are similar in which of the following ways

Both interview people to learn what is happening in the community

Anthropologists draw their conclusions from information they verify via observation, rather than through logic or theory alone. This research method is known as

Empiricism

According to Edward Sapir, languages may be different but they way we think about the world is basically the same

False

What was Jacob Grimm's hypothesis about similarities across language

Many modern languages evolved from a few (or even one) language

(Blank) are not social institutions

Media and television corporations

What happened after the Oakland Unified School District in 1996 passed a resolution that declared Ebonics (Black English) a language in its own right

National opposition compelled the school district to retract the resolution

Which of the following is an example of a social sanction

People at a meeting refuse to recognize an attendee who interrupts other speakers instead of waiting for a turn

___________ refers to the structure of speech sounds

Phonology

If you were a linguistic anthropologist interested in language ideologies in an American city, how would you devise your study?

Record the accents and dialects people use and which are considered superior or inferior

A linguistic anthropologist would be least interest in which of the following research projects

The circulation of American graphic t-shirts in sub-Saharan Africs

According to Albert Barlett, the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function

True

Which of the following is NOT true of the Ticha digital humanities project?

X - It incorporates recordings of Zapotec voices and links modern words with historical counterparts

Ethical issues facing ethnographers include all of the following except

X - controlling and protecting access to fieldnotes

When anthropologists go into the field, they

X - go as a completely clean slate, without reading anything about the topic beforehand

Traditional ecological knowledge is

X - not useful in the contemporary world

When anthropologists take a stance on a practice of belief after trying to understand it in its cultural and historical context, they are practicing

X - social sanctioning

If you were designing a participatory action research study on immigrant rights in you community, who should be doing the bulk of the investigation, analysis, and planning

X - you

An anthropologist who practices participatory action research would most likely use this method in a study of

a low-income neighborhood where a toxic waste dump is located

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

action anthropology

A central technique involved in an informal, open-ended interview is to

allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview

An anthropologist interest in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking

an emic perspective

Enculturation starts

as soon as we are born

In evolutionary terms, humans are distinct from other primates with respect to their ability to use language because we

can speak using a larynx

Which of the following best describes the methodology of multisited ethnography

comparative

An anthropologist who studies how Levi's jeans are affecting fashion among rural Indonesians is a(n)

cultural anthropologist

When one social group makes a unilateral decision to take control over the symbols, practices and objects of another, they are engaging in what phenomenon?

cultural appropriation

Hybridization is about

cultural mixing

One of the primary reasons indigenous leaders criticize the dominant model for administering protected environmental areas is

dominant models assume nature must be uninhabited by people

_______is the field of study that examines moral questions of right and wrong

ethics

When people think their culture is superior to other cultures they are being

ethnocentric

Ellen Isaacs' work, presented in a TEDx Broadway talk, explores how

ethnography can discover "the hidden obvious," that influences people's behavior

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

ethnoscience

Which method would be best when doing a study on the genetic propensity for cancer in a given population

genealogical method

the research that anthropologist Karen Tranberg Hansen has done on second-hand clothing in Zambia is interesting because it

highlights how people impose local meanings on globally sourced objects

Which of the following terms refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships

intersubjective

Interpretive anthropology argues that culture

is a shared system of meaning and people make sense of their world through symbols and symbolic activities like rituals

which of the following is a feature of language

it consists of sounds organized into words according to some sort of grammar