Anth 205 Test 1

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Americans are _____ of the World population?

1) biological 2) linguistics 3) cultural 4) archaeology

Anthropology is traditionally divided into four main sub-fields:

Contemporary human problems and solutions

Applied Anthropology focuses on:

The study of material remains of past and present cultures

Archaeology is:

The study of primates, human diversity, evolution, and genetics

Biological Anthropology is:

The most important intellectual tool for a leading professional life

Critical skills are:

The study of living people

Cultural Anthropology is:

Languages, Literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Arts, and Social Sciences

Fields for humanities:

History, Business Administration, Political Science, Economics, Education, Sociology, Geography, Law, Psychology, and Anthropology

Fields for social sciences:

The adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress

Independence Day commemorates:

The study of how languages originated, spread, and changed

Linguistics is:

Ethnocentrism is

Making value judgments about another culture from perspectives of one's own cultural system

True

T/F: Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present.

True

T/F: Archaeology studies the material culture of past societies (what people left behind)

False

T/F: Archaeology studies the past through the analysis of documents (what people say happened)

True

T/F: Claude Levy-Strauss believed that cultures could be superimposed, compared and analyzed because we all think in the same way

False

T/F: Claude Levy-Strauss believes all humans have the same culture and there are no differences between us.

True

T/F: Dr. Castro claims everyone is biased and wants his students to double check what he says

Divisive and harmful to patriotism and loyalty

The multicultural curriculum is:

The main objective of this course, as stated in the first class is

To explain that although we may sometimes look rather different, we are all very much alike

A basic tool to live in a cosmopolitan world with a global economy

Understanding different cultures and customs is:

focuses on the cross-cultural, ethnographic, and bio-cultural study of global urbanization and how that affects the life of people living in cities: diseases, pollution, crime, food, etc.

Urban Anthropology focuses on problems like:

Socrates

Who said: "the unexamined life is not worth living?"

yes

does Dr. Castro want me to be the director of my life and be in charge of my life?

yes

is this likely to be an action by an ethnocentric person? To decide that their own culture is best and ridicule others because they are different

no

is this likely to be an action by an ethnocentric person? To embrace foreign religions and beliefs at the slightest contact

no

is this likely to be an action by an ethnocentric person? To not judge anyone based on their cultural differences

no

is this likely to be an action by an ethnocentric person? To seek out new and different experiences

no

is this likely to be an action by an ethnocentric person? To view the world with an open mind

anthropology

the study of humankind

history

the study of past human activity based on documents

archaeology

the study of past human activity based on the material remains left behind