Intro to Cultural Anthropology Final
All of the above
A cross-cultural perspective on manic depression would
A Creole
A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called
Biocultural
A paradigm that emphasizes humans that are made up of complex biological, cultural, and psychological processes is
Sign
A stoplight is a visual example of which of the following?
A summarizing symbol
According to anthropologist SHeery Ortner's analysis, the American flag is an example of
Can only communicate in response to real-world stimuli
Animal call systems
Native symbols
Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all of the following except
True
Anthropologists are deeply skeptical of grandiose claims about biological destiny and the belief that nature explains all of our behavior
Red
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay found that if a language had only three color terms, they would always be black (dark), white (light), and
Building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time
Cultural anthropologists do research by
They provide a pattern for one's own behavior and interpreting others' actions
Cultural models help us make sense of the world because
Langue; parole
Ferdinad de Saussure made a distinction between the formal rules of language ________ and the ways people speak if _______
All of the above
Fieldwork involves
Elaborating symbol
For pastoral groups such as the Dinka and the Nuer, the cow acts as which kind of symbol
Marginalizes women's voices in work contexts
If you studied speech patterns such as those analyzed in Robin Lakoff's study of gendered speech, you might find that "talking like a lady"
Genealogical method
If you wanted to study patterns of kin relations in a community, which methods would you use?
True
In some cultures, people are not born as full persons but gain that as they fulfill social obligations
Not marked by a single fixed gene
Intelligence is
True
Most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking makes a mistake
Genetic drift
Random sampling effects that bring changes to the distribution of traits within a population
Phonology
Refers to the structure of speech sounds
Action anthropology
Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is
Mutation
Slight, unpredictable, variation in the genetic code that occurs during reproduction is called
Interviews
Systematic conversations with informants to collect data are called _______
Geneticization
The application of genetic explanations for breast cancer is an example of
All of the above
The human mind is
Gene flow
The movement of genes through interbreeding or intermarriage among humans from distinct populations is
Informants
The people anthropologists gather data from are called
Call system
The set of sounds and movements that animals make to communicate is called a
A phenotype
The set of visible characteristics of an individual is called a
Morphology
The study of grammatical categories, such as tense and word order, is called
Ethnoscience
The study of how people classify things in the world is called
Sociolinguistics
The study of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society
Participant observation
This type of interaction may include playing basketball, cooking, dining, or having coffee with informants
Morphemes
Units that are made up of a combination of the smallest meaningful bits of sound are
Understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community
Using life history interviews, researchers are able to
True
Western psychological terms and treatments are globalizing, and now there is evidence of mental illnesses in place where they never existed before
All of the above
When anthropologists go into the field
Parole
When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings (on the street)rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on
25%
When humans are born, their brain is what percentage of its eventual weight?
koro in Japan and anorexia in California
Which of the following would most interest an anthropologist who studies culture-bound systems
Cognate words
Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called
