Cultural anthropology exam
Which of the following is the most significant aspect of the salvage paradigm?
Anthropologist need to collect information from societies before they die out.
A paradigm that emphasizes humans that are made up of complex biological, cultural, and physiological processes is
Biocultural
Cultural anthropologists do research by observing living communities
Building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time
The people anthropologist gather data from are called
Consultants
Anthropologists generally believe in one unified theory of culture
False
Archaeologists never excavate sites were written historical documentation exists; that documentation provides a complete and accurate description of the way people actually lived
False
Which of the following is defined methodology to the principle of anthropology
Fieldwork
All humans are born with culture; culture is not learned
Flase
Diversity is defined anthropologically is
Focused on multiplicity and variety
Because our values and beliefs include many elements of life such as clothes, food, and language means that our culture is
Integrated
During fieldwork cultural anthropologists
Learn local language, record people's economic transactions, study how environmental changes affect agriculture.
The affects and feelings we experience as humans
May not have an exact equivalent description another culture
Anthropologist believe that our behavior is influenced by
Nature and nurture
The flexibility of the brain is called
Neural plasticity
Intelligence is
Not maked by a single fixed gene
Ethnocentrism
Presents a major problem for anthropologists, means you think your culture is superior to others, is a common feature of culture.
A cross cultural perspective on eating insect larva would reveal
The artificiality of taste, the cultural constructions of insects as food, that eating insects can be adaptive
cultural relativism
The moral and intellectual principle that one should withhold judgment about seemingly strange or exotic believes and practices.
archaeology
The subfield of anthropology that studies the material remains of past cultures, often focusing on the rise of cities
Cultural models help us make sense of the world because
They provide a pattern for one's own behavior and interpreting others actions
The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are referred to as
Traditions
Anthropologist are deeply skeptical of granddaughters claims about biological density in the believe that nature explains all of our behavior
True
Culture consists of the collective process that makes the artificial seem natural
True
Nature and nurture are not opposed but intertwined
True
Ethnopsychology is largely concerned with
Understanding how other societies make sense of selves, persons, and emotions