ANTHRO TRUE FALSE EXAM 2

Anthropologists are generally ignored by "development" experts at institutions like the World Bank.

false

Because of the widespread use of mass media today, sociolinguists have found increasing homogeneity in the use of language in the United States.

false

Countries find it relatively easy to decide what language its citizens will speak.

false

If the exact location of a fossil or archaeological artifact is not known it is usually impossible to determine an accurate date for it.

false

In order to study culture one must travel to distant, far-off places.

false

Languages change very slowly, taking generations or even centuries.

false

People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.

false

A critical reason for taking field notes is that there may be a long lag time between fieldwork and writing and publishing about it.

true

Studying pottery is an important part of understanding ancient cultures because potsherds break but never completely decompose under normal environmental conditions.

true

The processes of capital accumulation and the expansion of European colonialism disrupted many societies.

true

Cultural anthropologists use just three methods—interviews, field notes, and participant observation.

false

Globalization is exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before.

false

Most mammals use some form of call system to communicate with others of their species. Dogs and chimpanzees share an additional linguistic characteristic because they can communicate simple combinations of ideas about things they are not currently seeing.

false

The authors think that cultural diversity persists in the world because cultures have been isolated from each other for so long but that diversity is bound to disappear as cultures intermingle more.

false

The only useful way that we can understand non-living human ancestors comes from the study of fossils.

false

When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same.

false

Cultural anthropology is one of the most quantitative of the social sciences.

false (qualitative)

A key marker of development anthropology's success is when local perspectives and voices are paid attention to in development projects.

true

According to Edward Sapir, language is the symbolic guide to culture.

true

Although language is one of the most rule-bound aspects of human culture, it is also one of the least conscious.

true

America's pattern of gender inequality is built into our linguistic practices.

true

Anthropologists believe that the "native point of view" is better than their own.

true

Archaeologists are making a mistake when they clean samples of potsherds for analysis/

true

Elaborating symbols and summarizing symbols work in opposite ways.

true

Globalization and localization are complementary dynamics.

true

Localization is the flip side of globalization.

true

Most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking it makes a mistake.

true