anthropology

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Who was responsible for the theory of functionalism?

Bronislaw Malinowski

A word that best describes participant observation is

Unstructured

A symbol

is something that conventionally stands for something else

During colonialism, the perception of non-Western peoples as primitive or savage is referred to as the process of

othering

Norms are stable because

people learn them when they are young

The idea that embraces dynamic cultural processes and the idea that the observer of cultural processes can never see culture completely objectively represents

post-structuralism

Using life history interviews, researchers are able to

understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community

Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is called

Action anthropology

___________ is an approach in anthropology that directly addresses issues of social justice, such as poor health and political disempowerment.

Action anthropology

The thinker who developed evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century was

Charles Darwin

The American anthropologist responsible for the concept of historical particularism was named

Franz Boas

The structuralist approach to culture theorizes which of the following?

People make sense of the world through binary oppositions (raw/cook)

The theorist most connected with post-structuralism is

Renato Rosaldo

Which of the following is not a social consequence of introducing coffee into the highlands of Papua New Guinea?

Starbucks cafes sprung up across the highlands

An anthropologist who practices participatory-action research would most likely use this method in a study of

a low-income neighborhood where a toxic waste dump is located

which project would be best suited to parachute ethnography?

a study of community response to a disaster

An anthropologist interested in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking

an emic perspective

multi-sited ethnography is an example of which method

comparative method

Cultural determinism is unproductive for cultural analysis because it

denies the influence of factors like physical environment and biology on humans

Which of the following is the defining methodology of the discipline of anthropology?

fieldwork

if you wanted to study patterns of kin relations in a community, which method would you use?

genealogical method

When anthropologists go into the field, they

go with a set of questions they want to ask and have answered

Linguistic anthropologists study

how our language evolved, how our mouths form words, and how indigenous people classify their social worlds

A key element of the scientific method, which both explains things and guides research, is

hypothesis

Which of the following is the most significant aspect of the salvage paradigm?

anthropologists need to collect information from societies before they die out

Anthropology is a discipline that relies solely on

both primary and secondary materials

Assuming your culture's way of doing things is the best is called

ethnocentrism

The application of a holistic perspective to understand changes in everyday practices, such as eating breakfast cereals, reveals the

interconnections between different domains of a society

Examples of social institutions are

kinship, marriage, and farming

During anthropological fieldwork, cultural anthropologists

learn the local language, record people's economic transactions, and study how environmental changes affect agriculture

Ethnocentrism

means you think your culture is superior to others

The process by which inheritable traits are passed along to offspring because they are better suited to the environment is referred to as

natural selection

Western colonial powers understood the different customs and cultures of the people they colonized as

proof of their primitive nature

if you wanted to have consistent responses what kind of interview would you use?

survey interview

the difference between a survey and a structured interview is

survey questions are closed-ended; structured interviews are not

What prompted intellectuals to start systematically explaining the differences among people?

the Industrial Revolution

Even though anthropologists use parts of the scientific method, some don't see what they do as science because

the complexity of social behavior prevents any completely objective analysis of human culture

The primary ethical responsibility of anthropologists is to

the people or species they study

A relativistic perspective on the meanings of Coca-Cola in Tzotzil Maya communities in Chiapas, Mexico, would emphasize that

those meanings are only sensible within a culturally specific set of ideas about religion and spirituality

The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are referred to as

traditions


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