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Emile Durkheim's ideas of the "sacred" and the "profane" roughly match which concept?

"holy" and "unholy"

According to the archaeological record, how old is evidence of human artistic expression?

100,000 years

Which of the following is NOT part of the working definition of "religion" for anthropology?

A shared mystic language

From an anthropological perspective, who is eligible to create and experience art?

All humans

The variety of a language that gets called "standard" is typically spoken by who?

All members of a society* (the most socially powerful group, people who have at least 2 years of college, or women)

Which of the following is NOT one of the primary 4 fields of anthropology?

Business Anthropology

Anthropologists argue that humans are born with biological sex. However they also believe what?

But gender is a cultural construct

Cross-Culturally, anthropologists find that religious and political life does what?

Can be closely intertwined

Anthropologists define art as all the ideas, forms, techniques, and strategies that humans use to do what?

Communicate their creativity and inspiration.

Anthropology's approach to the study of human diversity helps us avoid the intellectual pitfalls of what?

Ethnocentrism

What do anthropologists emphasize in definitions of art?

It is shaped by the viewer's perception as well as the artistic intent.

George Gmelch's study of baseball magic shows that what?

Magic is not just a property of "exotic" cultures.

Which of the following is NOT a factor used to determine biological sex?

Manner of speaking

Which of the following is cultural context in which American children learn about gendered norms of behavior?

Media, sports, and peers (all of the above)

Cross-Culture studies on alternate genders reveals that what?

Not every culture fixes sexuality and gender in 2 distinct categories.

Which of the following animals is known to have language?

Only humans* (chimpanzees, border collies, or all great apes)

The idea that different languages create different ways of thinking is called what?

The Spair-Whorf Hypothesis

The forces of globalization have changed what?

The communities that anthropologists study, the methods that anthropologists use to do research, and how anthropologists communicate with their research participants (all of the above/all of these answer choices).

What is the central focus of research by visual anthropologists?

The production, circulation, and consumption of visual images

Anthropology is what?

The study of the full scope of human diversity

The field of sociolinguistics studies what?

The ways that language and cultural categories intersect