anthropology

loses the ability to be an engaged observer

"Going native" refers to a process whereby the anthropologist

allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview

A central technique involved in an informal, open-ended interview is to

the layout of the factory in which they are built

A commodity chain analysis applied to motorcars would be interested in all of the following except

that changes in human dietary physiology are intertwined with how people grow, share, and eat food

A foodways perspective on human evolution would emphasize

interrelationship between biology, health, ecology, political-economic, and cultural concerns

A key component of nutritional anthropology as defined by Audrey Richards was attention to the

theories

A key element of the scientific method, which both explains things and guides research, is

the labor conditions of migrant workers

A nutritional anthropologist who studies the nutrition transition would probably focus on all of the following except

intensification

A process that increases yields and includes prepping soil, technology, a large labor force, water management, and plant and soil modification is

the construction of statistical models to explain activities in the community

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

It is the temple where individuals who are sick go for healing.

According to Horace Miner in "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema", why do the Nacirema place so much emphasis on the latipsoh?

They had to work on plantations, in mines, or grow cash crops in order to pay taxes to the colonial government.

According to Lappe and Collins, why did local people stop producing food to feed themselves under colonial rule?

responsibilities toward the host country and the people being studied

An ethical approach to anthropological research emphasizes

the natural abilities of more civilized people to control less civilized people

An evolutionary perspective would be most likely to explain colonialism as

interconnections between societies

Cultural differences are often caused by

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

During anthropological fieldwork, cultural anthropologists

othering

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

marked by identities such as gender, age, and ethnic group

Eating practices are

history

Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?

the complexity of social behavior prevents any completely objective analysis of human culture

Even though anthropologists use parts of the scientific method, some don't see what they do as science because

kinship, marriage, and farming

Examples of social institutions are

becoming involved in people's lives

Fieldwork involves

elaborating symbol

For pastoral groups such as the Dinka and the Nuer, the cow acts as which kind of symbol?

He says that cows are sacred because they are essential to the subsistence (agricultural) system in India and killing them could cause the downfall of the system

How does Marvin Harris explain the sacredness of the cow in India?

cultural mixing

Hybridization is about

the density of the population in the several communities

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?

how the speakers of each dialect pronounce different words with similar meanings in the several dialects

If Jakob Grimm, who developed what has come to be known as Grimm's law, were analyzing the historical relationships among the so-called dialects of Chinese (such as Cantonese and Mandarin), what data would he be looking for in his linguistic fieldwork?

overarching importance of listening to the priorities of the neighbors

If a development anthropologist were to get involved in a project in your city that is revitalizing a poor neighborhood, she or he would probably emphasize the

this way of teaching organizes people to promote shared cultural goals

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

maintaining confidentiality is an ongoing challenge

If you studied sex workers in your city, as Philippe Bourgois studied crack dealers in New York City, you might find that

record how younger people, middle-aged people, and senior citizens pronounce ordinary American words

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?

plots that are repeated in many of the programs that American viewers interpret as commonplace social experiences

If you were conducting a symbolic analysis of TV programs and wanted to identify a key scenario such as the Horatio Alger myth, which of the following would you focus on?

can speak using a larynx

In evolutionary terms humans are distinct from other primates with respect to their ability to use language because we

foraging people have a cultural view of their environments as giving

One of anthropology's insights about the foraging mode of subsistence is that

mean that people in remote places can be in contact with people all over the world

Rapid increases in the scale and amount of communication

North America

The Nacirema are found in:

many groups of people will willingly change their foodways when something better, such as industrial agriculture, comes along

The biocultural logic of local foodways is related to each of the following observations except

survey questions are closed-ended; structured interviews are not

The difference between a survey and a structured interview is

omnivorous

The human diet is

a way of explaining how the world works

The idea that Ongee ancestors make tidal waves and earthquakes would be understood by an interpretive anthropologist as

through systematic connections of different parts

The main idea behind the holistic perspective is to study culture

traditions

The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are referred to as

accumulate prestige

The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to

informants

The people anthropologists gather data from are called

enculturation

The process of learning culture from a very young age is called

cultural imperialism

The process of promoting one culture over others, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as

ethnoscience

The study of how people classify things in the world is called

linguistic anthropology

The subfield of anthropology that studies language use is called

Charles Darwin

The thinker who developed evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century was

Mexican agricultural policies favored cheap imports from the United States

There has been a reduction of maize varieties in Mexico. What is the primary reason for it?

To extract wealth from colonies

What was the primary goal of European colonialism?

challenged her right to study the Maya culture as a foreign anthropologist

When Kay Warren presented her anthropological research, a group of Maya intellectuals, activists, and political leaders

it's related to the ignorance of the poor to effectively feed themselves

Which of the following would be least likely as an explanation given by a cultural anthropologist for the existence of food insecurity among the poor?

They think that given the high level of poverty, people should be eating cows/beef

Why do people outside of India often have trouble making sense of the sacredness of cows there?

She wanted to prove that Hamlet has a universal meaning that everyone can understand

Why does Laura Bohannan decide to tell the Tiv people the story of Hamlet in the article "Shakespeare in the Bush"?

action anthropology

___________ is an approach in anthropology that directly addresses issues of social justice, such as poor health and political disempowerment.

a pidgin language

Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as

creole

A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called

good general knowledge of the area/topic being studied

An important element required for successful "rapid appraisal" data collection is

highlights how people impose local meanings on objects

The research that anthropologist Karen Tranberg Hansen has done on secondhand clothing in Zambia is interesting because it

people make sense of the world through binary oppositions (i.e., raw/cooked)

The structuralist approach to culture theorizes which of the following?

Renato Rosaldo

The theorist most connected with post-structuralism is

functionalism

The theory of culture that proposes that cultural practices, beliefs, and institutions fulfill the psychological and physical needs of society is called

parole

When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on

life histories

Which method is an extended conversation that can shed light on how social institutions change over time?

fieldwork

Which of the following is the defining methodology of the discipline of anthropology?

anthropologists need to collect information from societies before they die out

Which of the following is the most significant aspect of the salvage paradigm?

All of the above

Which of the following issues did Claire Sterk face while doing research, according to the article "Tricking & Tripping: Field Work on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS"?

it provides high-quality protein for human brain development

Why was meat eating important for human evolution?

because they were a way to communicate symbolic piety

Why was symbolic anthropologist Mary Douglas so interested in Jewish dietary laws?

a goal of synthesizing the entire context of human experience

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

morphology

The study of grammatical categories, such as tense and word order, is called

comparative

Which of the following best describes the methodology of multi-sited ethnography?