Anthropology Test 1
Ruth Benedict's book Patterns of Culture illustrated which of the following
Cultures differ in the kinds and degrees of emotions they encourage a people to express
the 19th century British anthropologist who is credited with the development of the concept of culture through an evolutionary perspective is
E.B. Tylor
The anthropologist who rejected the idea that there are groups of people belonging to stable and unchanging races
Franz Baos
The following can be said of William Rathje's research EXCEPT
He strictly adheard to traditional archaeological method
Techniques that classify futures of phenomena and count, measure, and construct statistical models are collecting and
Quantitative data
Which of the following statements is false?
The "one-drop rule" was based on skin color
which anthropologist focused on the complex relationship between cultural practices and the ecosystem?
Victor Turner
Cultural determinism in unproductive for cultural analysis because
all of the above
During fieldwork, cultural anthropologists
all of the above
Neutral plasticity is illustrated by
all of the above
The enhanced cognition of early modern human allowed for
all of the above
The human mind is
all of the above
a symbol is
all of the above
an ethical approach to anthropological research would emphasize
all of the above
the human mind is
all of the above
cultural anthropologists can face difficulties during fieldwork, including all but the following
all of the above are potential difficulties
Stanley Ulijayzek's research in Papua New Guinea serves as an example of
all of the above**** holistic approach
a central technique involved in an informal, open-ended interview is to
allow questions to emerge in the course of the interview
Which of the following is the most significant aspect of the salvage paradigm
anthropologists need to collect information from societies before they die out
the subfield of anthropology that studies the material remains of past cultures is
archaeology
status based on birth or tradition
ascribed
Which of the following divides people along lines of moral purity and pollution?
caste
a key difference between caste and social class is
caste divides people in terms of moral purity, class in socioeconomic terms
The moral intellectual principles that one should withhold judgement about seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices is
cultural relativism
Applied anthropology is likely to focus on which of the following
education in inner-city America
anthropologists traditionally used the fieldwork technique of participant observation to gain the "insider's point of view" or the ______ perspective
emic
if you wanted to understand the norms of a society, you would be most likely to focus on
everyday interactions
The theory that posits cultural practices and beliefs serve purposes for society is called
functionalism
the theory that posits cultural practices and beliefs serve purposes for society is called
functionalism
The following is true of Franz Boas
he was an armchair anthropologist
anthropologist Kim Hopper believes
industrialized nations produce "surplus people"
The people anthropologists gather data from are called
informants
Anthropologists are interested in a situation like the way the new heart drug Bidil was created and approved because
it shows how cultural, political, and economic processes can work together to promote the idea that race is biologically
Culture is
learned and shared
The visible, physical characteristics of an individual
phenotype
Which statement is not true of Margaret Mead?
she was keenly interested in female puberty rituals
the "natural" order represented in social hierarchies of any society is supported by
social institutions
culture and personality theorists in the 1920s emphasized
that there are close parallels between each society's culture and the common personality characteristics of its people
what prompted intellectuals to start systematically explaining the differences among people?
the industrial revolution
The primary ethical responsibility of anthropologists is to
the people or species they study
Cultural models help us make sense of the world because
they provide a pattern for ones own behavior and interpreting others actions
if a functionalist were to explain why the teacher lectures from the front of the classroom to students organized in neatly arranged groups
this way of teaching organizes people to promote shared cultural goals