anthropology
Who was responsible for the theory of functionalism?
Bronislaw Malinowski
A word that best describes participant observation is
Unstructured
A symbol
is something that conventionally stands for something else
During colonialism, the perception of non-Western peoples as primitive or savage is referred to as the process of
othering
Norms are stable because
people learn them when they are young
The idea that embraces dynamic cultural processes and the idea that the observer of cultural processes can never see culture completely objectively represents
post-structuralism
Using life history interviews, researchers are able to
understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community
Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is called
Action anthropology
___________ is an approach in anthropology that directly addresses issues of social justice, such as poor health and political disempowerment.
Action anthropology
The thinker who developed evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century was
Charles Darwin
The American anthropologist responsible for the concept of historical particularism was named
Franz Boas
The structuralist approach to culture theorizes which of the following?
People make sense of the world through binary oppositions (raw/cook)
The theorist most connected with post-structuralism is
Renato Rosaldo
Which of the following is not a social consequence of introducing coffee into the highlands of Papua New Guinea?
Starbucks cafes sprung up across the highlands
An anthropologist who practices participatory-action research would most likely use this method in a study of
a low-income neighborhood where a toxic waste dump is located
which project would be best suited to parachute ethnography?
a study of community response to a disaster
An anthropologist interested in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking
an emic perspective
multi-sited ethnography is an example of which method
comparative method
Cultural determinism is unproductive for cultural analysis because it
denies the influence of factors like physical environment and biology on humans
Which of the following is the defining methodology of the discipline of anthropology?
fieldwork
if you wanted to study patterns of kin relations in a community, which method would you use?
genealogical method
When anthropologists go into the field, they
go with a set of questions they want to ask and have answered
Linguistic anthropologists study
how our language evolved, how our mouths form words, and how indigenous people classify their social worlds
A key element of the scientific method, which both explains things and guides research, is
hypothesis
Which of the following is the most significant aspect of the salvage paradigm?
anthropologists need to collect information from societies before they die out
Anthropology is a discipline that relies solely on
both primary and secondary materials
Assuming your culture's way of doing things is the best is called
ethnocentrism
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
Examples of social institutions are
kinship, marriage, and farming
During anthropological fieldwork, cultural anthropologists
learn the local language, record people's economic transactions, and study how environmental changes affect agriculture
Ethnocentrism
means you think your culture is superior to others
The process by which inheritable traits are passed along to offspring because they are better suited to the environment is referred to as
natural selection
Western colonial powers understood the different customs and cultures of the people they colonized as
proof of their primitive nature
if you wanted to have consistent responses what kind of interview would you use?
survey interview
the difference between a survey and a structured interview is
survey questions are closed-ended; structured interviews are not
What prompted intellectuals to start systematically explaining the differences among people?
the Industrial Revolution
Even though anthropologists use parts of the scientific method, some don't see what they do as science because
the complexity of social behavior prevents any completely objective analysis of human culture
The primary ethical responsibility of anthropologists is to
the people or species they study
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
The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are referred to as
traditions
