Honors Anthropology Midterm

Ethnographers must usually ____________________ to succeed in their research.

Build trusting relationships with people over a long period of time

Anthropology comes from Greek roots and means

The study of human beings

a language of mixed origin is that develops from a complex blending of two parent languages over time is called

a creole language

linguists refer to languages with a simplified grammar that exist to facilitate communication between two otherwise linguistically-distinct groups

a pidgin language

A central technique involved in an informal, open-ended interview is to

allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview

in the essay Eating Christmas in the Kalahari, richard lee observes that

among the JuHaonsi, there is a practice of openly insulting hunters who bring food into the community. lee argues that this helps moderate arrogance and maintain the egalitarian social relationships among them.

why do some anthropologists prefer to use the the term "transnational" over "global?"

because transnational imagines relationships that extend beyond nations without assuming they cover the whole world

words that come from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called

cognate words

traditional subfield of anthropology that primarily focuses on human cultural diversity and analyzes culture as a force that impacts human lives

cultural anthropology

the idea that everything we do or think is a product of culture is called

cultural determinism

The moral and intellectual principle that one should withhold judgment about seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices is called

cultural relativism

characteristics of human language

developed over time, flexible, and dynamic

which term is used to describe the style of anthropological practice in which anthropologists work with development agencies to help improve the outcomes of development projects?

development anthropology

Maxwell's Demons

during her research, Mcintosh found herself struggling to discredit her experiences of the seemingly supernatural, especially after visiting a Giriama diviner named Tresea

when anthropologists go out into the world to observe social phenomena and draw conclusion based on their observations they are engaged in

empirical research

the process of learning culture from a very young age is called

enculturalation

the bias that leads many of us to assume our way of life is best is called

ethnocentrism

the study of how people classify things in the world is called

ethnoscience

true or false? Anthropologists generally agree with those who emphasize the powerlessness of local societies in the face of the expanding global capitalist system

false

true or false? anthropologists often base their research solely on interviews because they are confident that our informants

false

Anthropologists define ___________________ as the contemporary widening scale of cross cultural interactions owing to the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas within nations and across national boundaries

globalization

which term is used by some anthropologists to describe the openended and ongoing process of cultural intermingling and fusion that results from globalization?

hybridization

The people anthropologists gather data from are called

informants

The use of mock Spanish reinforces a common impression that Hispanic people are socially inferior. This is an example of the power of which of the following?

language ideology

culture is

learned and shared

some anthropologists have identified a phenomenon called _______________________, referring to the creation and assertion of highly particular, often place based, identities and communities

localization

the study of the shape of a language - including grammatical categories like tense and word order is called

morphology

This research method might include playing basketball, cooking, dining, or hanging our with informants

participant observation

what type of information might be written in an anthropologists fieldnotes?

personal feelings of the anthropologist, personal information about informants, confidential information

the study of the sounds of a language, including differences in cadence and intonation, is called

phonology

What is the name of the field of study that deals with the legacies of colonialism and imperialism?

postcolonialism

Though cultural anthropologists use different types of data in their research, they have generally had a preference for ________________________, narrative data that is often generated through direct observation and interviews

qualitative data

which tern is applied to people who flee their homes because of political oppression or war?

refugees

in her article Speaking Like a Model Minority, anthropologist Shalini Shankar observes that

south asian teens in california deploy a mix of languages and language styles influence by factors such as ethnicity, class, and gender

anthropologists have the strongest ethical obligation to protect:

their informants

the theory that asserts that produced global inequality are best understood by examining the relationship between the "core" of the global capitalist system and those groups and societies that exist on the periphery of that system?

world systems theory