Chap 1 QUIZ
The thinker who developed evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century was
Charles Darwin
When did anthropology emerge as an academic discipline?
1800s
Anthropologists such as E. E. Evans-Pritchard and Renato Rosaldo do not see cultural anthropology as a science.
True
A key principle of the holistic perspective developed by Franz Boas is
a goal of synthesizing the entire context of human experience
During fieldwork, cultural anthropologists study how environmental changes affect agriculture learn the local language record people's economic transactions all of the answers are correct
all of the answers are correct
Increasingly, professional anthropologists are (a) women (b) indigenous peoples (c) members of ethnic and racial minorities (d) all of the answers are correct
all of the answers are correct
Linguistic anthropologists traditionally study (a) how our mouths form words (b) all of the answers are correct (c) how our language evolved (d) how indigenous people classify their social worlds
all of the answers are correct
The application of the comparative method in his research in Papua New Guinea led coauthor Robert Welsch to focus on (a) published and unpublished accounts of mask collectors who visited different villages (b) all of the answers are correct (c) interviews of village elders in different villages (d) museum collections
all of the answers are correct
The comparative method (a) is a general approach (b) all of the answers are correct (c) holds that no society or behavior should be seen in isolation (d) refers to the practice of comparing two or more cultures
all of the answers are correct
The subfield of anthropology that studies the material remains of past cultures, often focusing on the rise of cities, is called
archaeology
The subfield of anthropology that studies human evolution, including human genetics and human nutrition, is called
biological anthropology
A quantitative approach to studying the archaeological past would be most interested in
building and testing hypotheses by collecting, classifying, and measuring the remains of past cultures
The subfield of anthropology that studies human diversity, beliefs, and practice is called
cultural anthropology
The term diversity, when defined anthropologically, is
focuses on multiplicity and variety
What process involves shifting from an agricultural economy to a factory-based one?
industrialization
The subfield of anthropology that studies language use is called
linguistic anthropology
A relativistic perspective on the meanings of Coca-Cola in Tzotzil Maya communities in Chiapas, Mexico, would emphasize
that those meanings are only sensible within a culturally specific set of ideas about religion and spirituality
What prompted intellectuals to start systematically explaining the differences among people?
the Industrial Revolution
An evolutionary perspective would be most likely to explain colonialism as
the natural abilities of more civilized people to control less civilized people
A key concern in the 1850s that shaped the discipline of anthropology was the emergence of a new scientific theory called "evolution."
true
