Chapter 2 - Cultural Anthropology
Who was responsible for the theory of functionalism?
Bronislaw Malinowski
All humans are born with some culture.
False
A focus on ________ in a culture allows an anthropologist to understand what people hold to be near and dear
values
Activities that are biologically based, such as eating and sleeping, are universally the same for all humans.
False
Cultural relativism is important because it helps anthropologists understand and defend anything done by people in other cultures.
False
Culture consists of the collective processes that make the artificial seem natural.
True
If you wanted to understand the norms of a society, you would be most likely to focus on
everyday interactions
The perspective that aims to identify and understand cultures in the entirety is called
holism
An ________ approach to culture, such as that promoted by Geertz, Turner, and Douglas, emphasizes that culture is a shared system of meanings.
interpretive
Culture is
learned and shared
The structuralist approach to culture theorizes that
people make sense of the world through binary oppositions
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