ANT 101- EXAM #1
Animal call systems...
Can only communicate in response to real-world-stimuli...
If you want to understand the norms of a society you would be most likely to focus on...
Ceremonialized aspects of a society / Everyday Interactions / symbolic use of the body / the principlesand values people hold dear - ALL OF THE ABOVE
What practice involves powerful countries claiming possession of less powerful countries...
Colonialism
An ethical approach to anthropology research emphasizes:
Commitment to no harm / rejection of clandestine research / responsibilities toward the host country and the people - ALL OF THE ABOVE
A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called...
Creole
Which subfield of anthropology focuses on human diversity, beliefs, and practices. (Religious / Political Organizations)
Cultural Anthropology
The idea that all human behavior is determine by culture- not the environment or biology...
Cultural Determinism
For pastoral groups such as the Dinka and the Nuer, the cow acts as which kind of symbol...
Elaborating Symbol
Process of learning a culture from a very young age is...
Enculturation
Assuming your culture's way of doing things is the best is...
Ethnocentrism
T/F: Historical archaeologists excavate sites where written historical documentation exists that provides an accurate description of the way the people actually lived.
FALSE
Evolution favors brains that are...
Flexable
If a single female immigrant brings a trait to a small, sparsely populated island and within many generations it is present in 50% of the population, it would be an example of...
Genetic Drift
What process involves shifting from an agricultural economy to a factory- based one...
Indistrialization
The defining feature of historical particularism is...
Individual societies develop particular cultural traits and undergo a unique process of change.
Anthropologist Kim Hopper argues...
Industrialization nations produce "surplus people"
How would a critical relativist explain Native American criticisms of cultural appropriation?
It is important to understand Native American claims from their point of view though it doesn't necessarily mean we should accept them as the only way to view the issue
The US government's prohibition of Native American children speaking their indigenous languages in Indian schools has contributed most profoundly to...
Language Ideology
Culture is...
Learned & Shared
If you studied speech patterns such as those analyzed in Robin Lakoff's study of gendered speech, you might find that "talking like a lady"...
Marginalizes women's voices in work contexts
Which of the following would not be an explanation for divine madness (buduh) in Bali, Indonesia, by a biocultural anthropologist?...
Particular communities evolved to suffer from particular maladies.
If you were a linguistic anthropologist interested in language change in smaller American cities, building on William Labov's studies from the 1980s, what method would you use...
Record how younger people, middle-aged people, and senior citizens pronounce ordinary American words
Symbol...
Something that conventionally stands for something else.
T/F : Diversity, defined anthropology, refers to both multiplicity and variety, which is not the same thing as "difference'
TRUE
T/F: Culture can be transmitted virtually through the internet in addition to face - to - face interaction.
TRUE
T/F: In some other cultures people are not born as full persons but gain that as they fulfill social obligations...
TRUE
T/F: Western psychological terms and treatments are globalizing, and now there is evidence of mental illnesses in places where they never existed before...
TRUE
If an anthropologist who studies cultural models were to analyze the Ilongot concept of liget, she or he might emphasize...
That Ilongot culture has a pattern way of understanding liget.
Edward Sapir, who had been a student of Franz Boas's, saw himself as both a cultural anthropologist and a professionally trained linguist. He urged cultural anthropologists to pay close attention to language during field research because...
The "real world' os to a large extent unconsciously built up from the language, habits of a particular social group/language is a guide to "social reality" / we understand the material world through the language we speak / ALL OF THE ABOVE
An ethnographic approach to studying social life in your university would emphasize all, EXCEPT...
The construction of statistical models to explain activities in the community
If Benjamin Whorf were trying to find further proof that grammar shapes the way people perceive the world, which of the following would not be a focus of his research...
The density of the population in the several communities.
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.
A key element of scientific method, which both explains things and guides research...
Theory
If a functionalist were to explain why the teacher lectures from the front of the classroom to students organized in neatly arranged chairs, she or he would emphasize that...
This way of teaching organizes people to promote shared cultural goals
Which of the following is a feature of language...
Used for communication / Systematic / Consists organized into words according to some sort of grammar / ALL OF THE ABOVE
In evolutionary terms humans are distinct from other primates with respect to their ability to use language because...
We can speak using a larynx.
Biological determinist would...
Would reject evolutionary explanations of humankind in favor of biological explanations.
A key principle of the holist perspective developed by Franz Boas is...
a goal of synthesizing the entire context of human experience
When it comes to mother-infant bonding cross-culturally, anthropologists find that...
there are many ways to raise a child that do not involve close physical "bonding".
Cultural models help us make sense of the world because...
they provide a pattern for one's own behavior and interpreting others' actions