Quiz 3

After studying Hopi language, linguistic anthropologists Sapir and Whorf concluded that

Hopi speakers understand time in a fundamentally different way than English speakers

Armchair anthropology is a term used to refer to

a type of early anthropology based on the tales of others who had traveled to foreign lands

Sometimes an anthropologist does research on a particular group in order to lend their expertise to help fight for justice and equality for that group. In your text, this approach to research is called

activist anthropology

The American Anthropological Association's Code of Ethics stresses which of the following ethical responsibilities? 1.) do no harm 2.) obtain informed consent 3.) make results accessible 4.) all of the answer choices are correct

all of the answer choices are correct

Undertaking a period of fieldwork in cultural anthropology typically requires 1.) interacting on a daily basis with a group of people to learn about them 2.) spending a few months to a few years living among the research particpiants 3.) the anthropologist to go to where the people of the research study are 4.) all of the answer choices are correct

all of the answer choices are correct

Chapter author Katie Nelson conducted her first fieldwork among

an Indigenous community of northeastern Brazil called the Jenipapo-Kanindé

The idea that we should seek to understand another person's beliefs and behaviors from the perspective of their culture rather than our own is called

cultural relativism

Today, anthropologists recognize all of the following EXCEPT

culture change has led to the loss of an authentic way of life for peoples around the world

The four-fields approach in the anthropology of the United States includes

culture, biology, language, and archaeology

Ethnographers tend to write two kinds of field notes:

descriptive field notes and personal observations

Before beginning fieldwork, researchers usually must submit their plans to an Institutional Research Board (IRB). The role of the IRB is to

ensure that study participants are aware they will not be harmed by the research

The tendency to view one's own culture as more important and correct than any other culture is called

ethnocentrism

The in-depth study of everyday practices and lives of a people is referred to as

ethnography

Horace Miner's essay Body Rituals of the Nacirema (1956) was written as a satire to

have readers examine the way that early anthropological descriptions made other people seem exotic and strange

All of the following are true about Sir James Frazer EXCEPT

he concluded that all religious systems were equally developed but had different manifestations

Malinowski is known to have done all of the following EXCEPT

marrying a Native Trobriand woman

The research technique in which an ethnographer records their own observations and thoughts, as well as what they do while engaging in daily community activities, is called

participant observation

Bronislaw Malinowski is best known in anthropology for

pioneering fieldwork methods, including participant observation

A symbolic or interpretive anthropological approach

reads culture as a "text," and includes the perspectives that the anthropologist brings to the research

Margaret Mead's book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) provided an example of cultural determinism in that

the stress and anxiety of American adolescence were not experienced by Samoan youth, who grew up in a different cultural environment