anthropology
loses the ability to be an engaged observer
"Going native" refers to a process whereby the anthropologist
allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview
A central technique involved in an informal, open-ended interview is to
the layout of the factory in which they are built
A commodity chain analysis applied to motorcars would be interested in all of the following except
that changes in human dietary physiology are intertwined with how people grow, share, and eat food
A foodways perspective on human evolution would emphasize
interrelationship between biology, health, ecology, political-economic, and cultural concerns
A key component of nutritional anthropology as defined by Audrey Richards was attention to the
theories
A key element of the scientific method, which both explains things and guides research, is
the labor conditions of migrant workers
A nutritional anthropologist who studies the nutrition transition would probably focus on all of the following except
intensification
A process that increases yields and includes prepping soil, technology, a large labor force, water management, and plant and soil modification is
the construction of statistical models to explain activities in the community
A qualitative approach to studying social life in your university would emphasize all of the following except
It is the temple where individuals who are sick go for healing.
According to Horace Miner in "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema", why do the Nacirema place so much emphasis on the latipsoh?
They had to work on plantations, in mines, or grow cash crops in order to pay taxes to the colonial government.
According to Lappe and Collins, why did local people stop producing food to feed themselves under colonial rule?
responsibilities toward the host country and the people being studied
An ethical approach to anthropological research emphasizes
the natural abilities of more civilized people to control less civilized people
An evolutionary perspective would be most likely to explain colonialism as
interconnections between societies
Cultural differences are often caused by
learn the local language, record people's economic transactions, and study how environmental changes affect agriculture
During anthropological fieldwork, cultural anthropologists
othering
During colonialism, the perception of non-Western peoples as primitive or savage is referred to as the process of
marked by identities such as gender, age, and ethnic group
Eating practices are
history
Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?
the complexity of social behavior prevents any completely objective analysis of human culture
Even though anthropologists use parts of the scientific method, some don't see what they do as science because
kinship, marriage, and farming
Examples of social institutions are
becoming involved in people's lives
Fieldwork involves
elaborating symbol
For pastoral groups such as the Dinka and the Nuer, the cow acts as which kind of symbol?
He says that cows are sacred because they are essential to the subsistence (agricultural) system in India and killing them could cause the downfall of the system
How does Marvin Harris explain the sacredness of the cow in India?
cultural mixing
Hybridization is about
the density of the population in the several communities
If Benjamin Whorf were trying to find further proof that grammar shapes the way people perceive the world, which of the following would not be a focus of his research?
how the speakers of each dialect pronounce different words with similar meanings in the several dialects
If Jakob Grimm, who developed what has come to be known as Grimm's law, were analyzing the historical relationships among the so-called dialects of Chinese (such as Cantonese and Mandarin), what data would he be looking for in his linguistic fieldwork?
overarching importance of listening to the priorities of the neighbors
If a development anthropologist were to get involved in a project in your city that is revitalizing a poor neighborhood, she or he would probably emphasize the
this way of teaching organizes people to promote shared cultural goals
If a functionalist were to explain why the teacher lectures from the front of the classroom to students organized in neatly arranged chairs, she or he would emphasize that
maintaining confidentiality is an ongoing challenge
If you studied sex workers in your city, as Philippe Bourgois studied crack dealers in New York City, you might find that
record how younger people, middle-aged people, and senior citizens pronounce ordinary American words
If you were a linguistic anthropologist interested in language change in smaller American cities, building on William Labov's studies from the 1980s, what method would you use?
plots that are repeated in many of the programs that American viewers interpret as commonplace social experiences
If you were conducting a symbolic analysis of TV programs and wanted to identify a key scenario such as the Horatio Alger myth, which of the following would you focus on?
can speak using a larynx
In evolutionary terms humans are distinct from other primates with respect to their ability to use language because we
foraging people have a cultural view of their environments as giving
One of anthropology's insights about the foraging mode of subsistence is that
mean that people in remote places can be in contact with people all over the world
Rapid increases in the scale and amount of communication
North America
The Nacirema are found in:
many groups of people will willingly change their foodways when something better, such as industrial agriculture, comes along
The biocultural logic of local foodways is related to each of the following observations except
survey questions are closed-ended; structured interviews are not
The difference between a survey and a structured interview is
omnivorous
The human diet is
a way of explaining how the world works
The idea that Ongee ancestors make tidal waves and earthquakes would be understood by an interpretive anthropologist as
through systematic connections of different parts
The main idea behind the holistic perspective is to study culture
traditions
The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are referred to as
accumulate prestige
The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to
informants
The people anthropologists gather data from are called
enculturation
The process of learning culture from a very young age is called
cultural imperialism
The process of promoting one culture over others, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as
ethnoscience
The study of how people classify things in the world is called
linguistic anthropology
The subfield of anthropology that studies language use is called
Charles Darwin
The thinker who developed evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century was
Mexican agricultural policies favored cheap imports from the United States
There has been a reduction of maize varieties in Mexico. What is the primary reason for it?
To extract wealth from colonies
What was the primary goal of European colonialism?
challenged her right to study the Maya culture as a foreign anthropologist
When Kay Warren presented her anthropological research, a group of Maya intellectuals, activists, and political leaders
it's related to the ignorance of the poor to effectively feed themselves
Which of the following would be least likely as an explanation given by a cultural anthropologist for the existence of food insecurity among the poor?
They think that given the high level of poverty, people should be eating cows/beef
Why do people outside of India often have trouble making sense of the sacredness of cows there?
She wanted to prove that Hamlet has a universal meaning that everyone can understand
Why does Laura Bohannan decide to tell the Tiv people the story of Hamlet in the article "Shakespeare in the Bush"?
action anthropology
___________ is an approach in anthropology that directly addresses issues of social justice, such as poor health and political disempowerment.
a pidgin language
Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as
creole
A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called
good general knowledge of the area/topic being studied
An important element required for successful "rapid appraisal" data collection is
highlights how people impose local meanings on objects
The research that anthropologist Karen Tranberg Hansen has done on secondhand clothing in Zambia is interesting because it
people make sense of the world through binary oppositions (i.e., raw/cooked)
The structuralist approach to culture theorizes which of the following?
Renato Rosaldo
The theorist most connected with post-structuralism is
functionalism
The theory of culture that proposes that cultural practices, beliefs, and institutions fulfill the psychological and physical needs of society is called
parole
When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on
life histories
Which method is an extended conversation that can shed light on how social institutions change over time?
fieldwork
Which of the following is the defining methodology of the discipline of anthropology?
anthropologists need to collect information from societies before they die out
Which of the following is the most significant aspect of the salvage paradigm?
All of the above
Which of the following issues did Claire Sterk face while doing research, according to the article "Tricking & Tripping: Field Work on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS"?
it provides high-quality protein for human brain development
Why was meat eating important for human evolution?
because they were a way to communicate symbolic piety
Why was symbolic anthropologist Mary Douglas so interested in Jewish dietary laws?
a goal of synthesizing the entire context of human experience
A key principle of the holistic perspective developed by Franz Boas is
morphology
The study of grammatical categories, such as tense and word order, is called
comparative
Which of the following best describes the methodology of multi-sited ethnography?