Anthropology Test Ch.4,5,6

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 likely require the assistance of a geomorphologist?

A study of landscape change

Remote sensing techniques are...

A way to correlate magnetic and locational data

The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to...

Accumulate prestige

Development anthropologists often think of themselves as...

Advocates of poor and marginalized people

Koko and Washo were two primates who had learned...

American Sign Language

Cultural anthropologists do research by...

Building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time.

For pastoral groups such as the Dinka and the Nuer, the cow acts as which of the following symbol?

Elaborating Symbol

Globalization is exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before.

False

In order to study culture one must travel too distant, far-off places.

False

One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that...

Global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves

Jakob Grimm, who developed what has come to be known as Grimm's law, were analyzing the historical relationships among the so-called dialects of Chinese (such as Cantonese and Mandarin), what data would he be looking for in his linguistic fieldwork?

How the speakers of each dialect pronounce different words with similar meanings in the several dialects

The key scenario differs from other kinds of symbols because it...

Implies how people should act

In attempting to understand the way that ancient humans actually lived, paleoanthropologists Richard Leakey and writer Roger Lewin described the difficulty involved as being like a...

Jigsaw puzzle with most pieces missing

Rapid increases in the scale and amount of communication...

Mean that people in remote places can be in contact with people all over the world

People who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries are called...

Migrants

How words fit together to make meaningful units is called...

Morphology

If you wanted to understand very early, non-living human beings, you would likely engage in ...

Paleoanthropology

When language speakers use slang or metaphor, they are engaging in which concept suggested by French linguist Ferdinand de saussure?

Parole

If you were a linguistic anthropologist interested in language change in smaller American cities, building on William Labov's studies from the 1980's, what method would you use?

Record how younger people, middle-aged people, and senior citizens pronounce ordinary American words

In order to be certain that a particular area holds promise for paleoanthropological research, what is first used to evaluate the site?

Test pits

A commodity chain analysis applied to motorcars would be interested in all of the following except...

The layout of the factory in which they are built

A key feature of financial globalization is...

The reduction or elimination of tariffs to promote trade

A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that...

They explain the apparent decline of cultural diversity

Archaeologists are making a mistake when they clean samples of potsherds for analysis.

True

Elaborating symbols and summarizing symbols work in opposite ways.

True

Localization is the flip side of globalization.

True

A multi-sited ethnographer studying Mexican migrants in the United States would be most likely to conduct fieldwork -in a government hearing on immigration policy -by traveling with migrants as they cross borders in the Southwest -by interviewing border officials -all of the above -none of the above

all of the above

One of the methods that archaeologists can use to determine potentially useful areas to excavate involves the use of -aerial surveys -surface surveys -regional surveys -GIS systems -all of the above

all of the above

The major goal of "development" is -importing heath -expanding capitalist markets -alleviating poverty -all of the above

all of the above

When anthropologists go into the field -they go with a set of questions they want to ask and have answered -they often change the focus of their question to fit what they are seeing -they often go with the flow of everyday life, even if it seems off topic at the time -all of the above

all of the above

Which of the following are areas of social activity that globalization affects? -finances -communication -migration -all of the above

all of the above

Which method would be best when doing a study on the genetic propensity for cancer in a given population?

genealogical method

James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists

to expand state power

The word best describes participant observation is

unstructured

World systems theory helped anthropologists -better explain the historical emergence of development patterns throughout the world -better explain uneven development through time and space -better understand local social relations -all of the above -none of the above

All of the above

Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all of the following except...

Narrative Symbols

The use of MtDNA sequencing and the establishment of haplogroups allowed researchers working on the Hoyo Negro project to establish...

A high degree of overlap with current indigenous peoples

Animal call systems...

Can only communicate in response to real-world stimuli

Which of the following best describes the methodology of multi-sited ethnography?

Comparative

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

Which of the following is a feature of language? -it is used to communicate -it is systematic -it consists of sounds organized into words according to some sort of grammar -all of the above

all of the above

Talking about sports as a battlefield is an example of...

A metaphor

Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as...

A pidgin language

The study of grammatical categories, such as tense and word order, is called...

Morphology

Although language is one of the most rule-bound aspects of human culture, it is also one of the least conscious.

True

Using life history interviews, researchers are able to...

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

Most mammals use some form of call system to communicate with others of their species. Dogs and chimpanzees share an additional linguistic characteristic because they can communicate simple combinations of ideas about things they are not currently seeing.

False

People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.

False

The only useful way that we can understand non-living human ancestors comes from the study of fossils.

False

According to Edward Sapir, language is the symbolic guide to culture.

True

Chronometric dating techniques used by archaeologists help establish...

A more specific age for a fossil or something organic

When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same.

False