Anthropology Test 1

Ruth Benedict's book Patterns of Culture illustrated which of the following

Cultures differ in the kinds and degrees of emotions they encourage a people to express

the 19th century British anthropologist who is credited with the development of the concept of culture through an evolutionary perspective is

E.B. Tylor

The anthropologist who rejected the idea that there are groups of people belonging to stable and unchanging races

Franz Baos

The following can be said of William Rathje's research EXCEPT

He strictly adheard to traditional archaeological method

Techniques that classify futures of phenomena and count, measure, and construct statistical models are collecting and

Quantitative data

Which of the following statements is false?

The "one-drop rule" was based on skin color

which anthropologist focused on the complex relationship between cultural practices and the ecosystem?

Victor Turner

Cultural determinism in unproductive for cultural analysis because

all of the above

During fieldwork, cultural anthropologists

all of the above

Neutral plasticity is illustrated by

all of the above

The enhanced cognition of early modern human allowed for

all of the above

The human mind is

all of the above

a symbol is

all of the above

an ethical approach to anthropological research would emphasize

all of the above

the human mind is

all of the above

cultural anthropologists can face difficulties during fieldwork, including all but the following

all of the above are potential difficulties

Stanley Ulijayzek's research in Papua New Guinea serves as an example of

all of the above**** holistic approach

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

allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview

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

anthropologists need to collect information from societies before they die out

the subfield of anthropology that studies the material remains of past cultures is

archaeology

status based on birth or tradition

ascribed

Which of the following divides people along lines of moral purity and pollution?

caste

a key difference between caste and social class is

caste divides people in terms of moral purity, class in socioeconomic terms

The moral intellectual principles that one should withhold judgement about seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices is

cultural relativism

Applied anthropology is likely to focus on which of the following

education in inner-city America

anthropologists traditionally used the fieldwork technique of participant observation to gain the "insider's point of view" or the ______ perspective

emic

if you wanted to understand the norms of a society, you would be most likely to focus on

everyday interactions

The theory that posits cultural practices and beliefs serve purposes for society is called

functionalism

the theory that posits cultural practices and beliefs serve purposes for society is called

functionalism

The following is true of Franz Boas

he was an armchair anthropologist

anthropologist Kim Hopper believes

industrialized nations produce "surplus people"

The people anthropologists gather data from are called

informants

Anthropologists are interested in a situation like the way the new heart drug Bidil was created and approved because

it shows how cultural, political, and economic processes can work together to promote the idea that race is biologically

Culture is

learned and shared

The visible, physical characteristics of an individual

phenotype

Which statement is not true of Margaret Mead?

she was keenly interested in female puberty rituals

the "natural" order represented in social hierarchies of any society is supported by

social institutions

culture and personality theorists in the 1920s emphasized

that there are close parallels between each society's culture and the common personality characteristics of its people

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

the industrial revolution

The primary ethical responsibility of anthropologists is to

the people or species they study

Cultural models help us make sense of the world because

they provide a pattern for ones own behavior and interpreting others actions

if a functionalist were to explain why the teacher lectures from the front of the classroom to students organized in neatly arranged groups

this way of teaching organizes people to promote shared cultural goals