Exam 1, Form B
The English word "cats" has how many morphemes?
2 morphemes cat-s.
From the perspective of ecological functionalism, the Hindu taboo on eating beef is:
Adaptive to the long-run conditions of drought and crop shortages in India
Culture is made up of learned behaviors which are learned
Continuously
The process of movement of culture traits from one society to another is called:
Diffusion
True or False: Diffusion is generally a peaceful process that benefits all of the culture involved.
False
True or False: Anthropology is most interested in what is abnormal and atypical in human populations
False
According to the lecture, all of the following elements are found in all culture except:
Formal Law Enforcement
A major point of the enthnography "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" is to:
Help us look at our own culture from different perspective.
A positive value of ethnocentrism for a society is that it:
Helps bind members of a society together
Which of the following studies how languages are related to each other?
Historical Linguistics
Human speech is infinitely productive. This means that:
Humans can combine words into new, meaningful utterances that they have never heard before
Which of the following an example of displacement:
I might go out tomorrow if it doesn't rain.
One critical factor that distinguishes anthropology from other fields of study is:
It's interest in describing humankind throughout time and in all parts of the world.
Which of the following theoretical perspectives most takes account of issues of conflict and struggle within cultures?
Neo-Marxism
In English, bit and pit have different have different meanings. thus /b/ and /p/ are:
Phonemes
Which theoretical approach argues that no knowledge is objective and all knowledge is influenced by the observer's own culture, social position, and gender?
Postmodernism
The relationship between language and culture is illustrated by the fact:
The vocabulary of a language emphasizes those features of the environment that are culturally most significant
As culture traits move from one society to another:
Their meanings tend to change.
True or False: The most important ethical responsibility in anthropological fieldwork is to protect the interests of the people whom you are studying.
True
True or False: Vocabulary of a language reflects the culture of the people who speak it
True
True or False: Cultures are systems, so a change in one aspect of a culture is likely to result in changes in other aspects of the culture
True
Cultural relativity requires that:
Values and customs be understood in terms of the culture of which they are part.
You should have read about Inuit enculturation in Chapter 3. If you have, then you know that all of the following are emphasized in Inuit except:
Violence
The International Phonetic Alphabet is a means of:
Writing all of the sounds of all human languages
There are many ways to define culture, but in general, we can say that culture:
all of the above
Early anthropologists who relied on travelers and missionaries for their fieldwork data were called:
armchair anthropologists
A linguistic capacity to describe things that are not present is called:
displacement
Ethnocentrism is the tendency for:
every society to view itself as superior to others
In Anthropology, the concept of race:
has been found to be inadequate for scientifically meaningful classification of humans.
Norms are
ideas people in a society share about the way things ought to be done.
Individuals who serve as guides and teachers for anthropologists in the culture in which they do fieldwork are called by all of the following terms except:
managers
Smallest unit of meaning in language is a:
morpheme
The fieldwork technique at the heart of anthropological data collection is called:
participant observation
The specific sounds that are significant in a particular language are called:
phonemes