Anthro Exam 1
In the video "A Man Called Bee", what did the ethnographer do to reassure the newly contacted Yanomamo village?
Dressed as a Yanomamo
Why can theories not be proved?
Many of the concepts and ideas in theories are not directly observable.
Why is it incomplete to simply call anthropology "the study of humans"?
Many other disciplines also study humans
Anthropology is literally the study of __________.
humans
What do scientists use as predictions of what might be found in a study?
hypotheses
Which of the following strongly predicts an immigrant group's likelihood of retaining their native language into the third generation?
living in tightly knit communities
What is the difference between a paleontologist and a paleoanthropologist?
Paleontologists study many different types of animals, while paleoanthropologists focus on humans and their relatives.
Pauses, shrugs, vocal communication, and facial expressions all contribute to __________.
paralanguage
Which statement is true of syntax?
Speakers of a language are usually not consciously aware of the rules of syntax
Why is it adaptive for some cuisines to have hot and spicy seasonings?
Spices help retard the decay of meat dishes in hot climates
In the Applied Anthropology example, how did Chinese and American preschools instill cultural value lessons in the children?
The Chinese preschool emphasized group activities, while the American preschool emphasized individualized activities.
How did early evolutionists tend to think of Western cultures?
They viewed Western cultures as being at the most progressive stage of evolution.
What should be taken into account when using ethnographic information from multiple cultures?
You should make sure that all of the information was gathered in the same time period.
Anthropologists have explained the lack of parents' emotional interaction and playfulness with infants in some preindustrial societies as __________.
a need to create emotional distance due to high infant mortality rates in these societies
The process of cultural change known as __________ describes a situation in which a subordinate society adopts cultural traits or technologies through contact with a more powerful society, either through force or due to perceived economic or social advantages.
acculturation
Today, evolutionary anthropologists or behavioral ecologists look at how a behavioral characteristic may be __________.
adaptive for an individual in a given environment
Ethnographers are focusing more explicitly now on the importance of the individual in bringing about change. This is called individual __________.
agency
Cross-cultural studies of childrearing habits have shown that compared to non-Western societies, American parents __________.
are less likely to breast-feed on demand
Which of these is an example of a bound morpheme?
bl
Which of these fields focuses on the relationship between a culture and its environment?
cultural ecology
Which of the following types of nonverbal communication appears to be culturally universal?
facial expressions
The method of __________ shows that a theory seems to be wrong.
falsification
A cultural anthropologist who spends a year or so living with, talking to, and observing people whose customs he or she is studying is known as a(n) __________.
ethnographer
Ethnocentrism both hinders our understanding of other peoples' cultures and __________.
keeps us from understanding our own customs
Which type of culture was the traditional focus for anthropologists?
non-Western cultures
The idea that an understanding of personality might help us explain connections between primary and secondary institutions is called __________.
personality integration of culture
Participant-observation refers to the __________.
practice of immersing oneself in the language and customs of a society
An anthropologist comparing kinship terms between the Turkana and the Maasai—both pastoral peoples from East Africa—is doing __________.
regional controlled comparison
Which of the following is an example of forced acculturation?
schools for Native American children
What is a protolanguage?
spoken reconstructed language from which modern languages derived
An ethnohistorian would __________.
study the way in which cultures have changed over time
The fact that monkeys and apes can learn new behaviors from each other __________.
suggests that they have a culture
Because a word or phrase can represent what it stands for, whether or not that thing is present, we say that language is __________.
symbolic
When considering cross-cultural concepts of self, Melford Spiro pointed out that __________.
the ideal in a culture may not reflect reality
Which feature is shared by all creole languages?
the use of double negatives
In his research on psychological development in the Tiv, Douglass Price-Williams found that __________.
there was no difference between Tiv and European children in understanding of conservation of earth, nuts, and numbers
In general, the borrowing of __________ from another language is much more common than the borrowing of __________.
words; grammar