Anthropology Multiple Choice

The nineteenth-century British anthropologist who is credited with the development of the concept of culture through an evolutionary perspective where the most evolved societies resembled the British societies in which he lived was: Emile Durkheim E. B. Tylor Max Weber Charles Darwin

E. B. Tylor

The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to: imitate European consumers steal and resell secondhand clothes accumulate prestige all of the above.

accumulate prestige

A synonym for hybridization is: syncretism friction creolization all of the above

all of the above

The major goal of "development" is: improving health expanding capitalist markets alleviating poverty all of the above

all of the above

Which of the following is the most significant aspect of the salvage paradigm? archaeologists study other people's trash by salvaging it anthropologists study the natural destruction of societies anthropologists need to collect information from societies before they die out anthropologists produce paradigms to salvage the dignity of oppressed people

anthropologists need to collect information from societies before they die out

Which of the following best describes the methodology of multi-sited ethnography? analytical comparative genealogical rooted local

comparative

James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists: to alleviate poverty to improve working conditions for farmers expand state power all of the above

expand state power

The process by which inheritable traits are passed along to offspring because they are better suited to the environment is: evolution degeneration genetic mutation natural selection

natural selection

Norms are stable because: culture doesn't change people learn them when they are older people learn them when they are young they are the same in every culture

people learn them when they are young

Which of the following two aspects is central to participant observation? hard work and being an engaged observer strong sense of detail and being an engaged observer rapport and being an engaged observer knowledge of many cultures and rapport

rapport and being an engaged observer

Which of these words does not fit a definition of culture. Culture is _______________. shared dynamic changing static integrated

static

The primary ethical responsibility of anthropologists is to: themselves the agency that funds the research the people or species they study the institution in which they work the government of the country they work in

the people or species they study

The controversy between Native Americans and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools using mascots illustrates: the scientific method historical particularism the power of tradition all of the above none of the above

the power of tradition

If a functionalist were to explain why the teacher lectures from the front of the classroom to students organized in neatly arranged chairs, she or he would emphasize that: learning happens best when students are being talked at this way of teaching organizes people to promote shared cultural goals this mode of teaching evolved over time the teacher is the symbolic head of the class all of the above

this way of teaching organizes people to promote shared cultural goals