cultural anthropology

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True

A key concern in the 1850s that shaped the discipline of anthropology was the emergence of a new scientific theory called "evolution.

false

Activities that are biologically based, such as eating and sleeping, are universally practiced in the same way for all humans.

False

All humans are born with some culture

False

Anthropologist generally believe in one unified theory of culture.

False

Anthropologists do not use the scientific method at all.

False

Anthropologists have no ethical obligations to their informant communities.

Integrated

Because our values and beliefs include many elements of life such as clothes, food, and language means that culture is

False

Contemporary cultural anthropologists rank societies along an evolutionary scale from "primitive" to "advanced" to categorize human diversity.

True

Cultural appropriation involves relationships of power.

True

Culture consists of the collective processes that make the artificial seem natural.

Learned and shared

Culture is

True

Diversity, defined anthropologically, refers to both multiplicity and variety, which is not the same thing as "difference."

Cultural Relativism

The moral and intellectual principle that one should withhold judgment about seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices is called

Traditions

The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are referred to as

Holism

The perspective that aims to identify and understand cultures in their entirety is called

Enculturation

The process of learning culture from a very young age is called

Linguistic anthropologists study

How our language evolved, how our mouths form words, and how indigenous people classify their social worlds

Refers to the practice of comparing two or more cultures

The comparative method

Cultural Anthropology

The subfield of anthropology that studies human diversity, beliefs, and practices is called

Archaeology

The subfield of anthropology that studies the material remains of past cultures is called


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