ANTH-125 Chapter 1 Quiz

Contemporary cultural anthropologists rank societies along an evolutionary scale from "primitive" to "advanced" to categorize human diversity.

False

A key principle of the holistic perspective developed by Franz Boas is

a goal of synthesizing the entire context of human experience

The subfield of anthropology that studies the material remains of past cultures is called

archaeology

The moral and intellectual principle that one should withhold judgment about seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices is called

cultural relativism

Assuming your culture's way of doing things is the best is called

ethnocentrism

During anthropological fieldwork, cultural anthropologists

learn the local language, record people's economic transactions, and study how environmental changes affect agriculture

During colonialism, the perception of non-Western peoples as primitive or savage is referred to as the process of

othering

A qualitative approach to studying social life in your university would emphasize all of the following except

the construction of statistical models to explain activities in the community

A relativistic perspective on the meanings of Coca-Cola in Tzotzil Maya communities in Chiapas, Mexico, would emphasize that

those meanings are only sensible within a culturally specific set of ideas about religion and spirituality

When did anthropology emerge as an academic discipline?

1800s