Test 2 quiz question and answers
Although language is one of the most rule-bound aspects of human culture, it is also one of the least conscious.
true
Anthropologists believe that the "native point of view" is better than their own.
true
Elaborating symbols and summarizing symbols work in opposite ways.
true
Using life history interviews, researchers are able to
understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community
Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as
pidgin language
Remote sensing techniques are
a way to correlate magnetic and locational data
When archaeologists recover and analyze ancient non-fossilize
DNA analysis
The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to
accumulate prestige
The key scenario differs from other kinds of symbols because it
implies how people should act
The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of
localization
People who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries are called
migrants
Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all of the following except
narrative symbols
Cultural anthropologists face an ethical responsibility in their work and so must disclose to informants
reasons for doing the research
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 in-depth analysis of the grammars of European languages
James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists
to expand state power
The ability to discover ancient remains and draw inferences about our earliest human ancestors is sometimes helped by
trace fossils
A key marker of development anthropology's success is when local perspectives and voices are paid attention to in development projects. true or false
true
A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called
a creole
A believer in cultural imperialism would explain that people who watch American television in remote places like a Walpiri camp in the Australian outback are
being subjected to alien cultural influences
Cultural anthropologists do research by
building trusting relationships with people over a long period of time
The study of how people classify things in the world is called
ethnoscience
People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion. true or false
false
Which of the following is the defining methodology for the discipline of anthropology?
fieldwork
Cultural differences are often caused by
interconnections between societies
Localization is the flip side of globalization.
true
Studying pottery is an important part of understanding ancient cultures because potsherds break but never completely decompose under normal environmental conditions.
true
Which of the following best describes the methodology of multi-sited ethnography?
comparative
The use of mock Spanish reinforces a common impression that Hispanic people are socially inferior. This is an example of the power of which of the following?
language ideology
For pastoral groups such as the Dinka and the Nuer, the cow acts as which kind of symbol?
summarizing symbol
If you wanted to have consistent responses, what kind of interview would you use?
survey interview
