Anth Final Exam 1

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The goals of anthropology include which of the following

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E. all of the above

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Which of the following are the five disciplines of anthropology

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D. cultural, physical, archaeological, linguistic, applised

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in the chapter on applied anthropology, Kottack discussed the work of Robert Redfield, recognised that a city is a social context that is very different from a tribal or peasant study? Differences between

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c. urban vs. rural communities

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Ethnography is the _____ while ethnology is ______

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c. the scientific description of a society's customs, its people and culture / study of people in various environments while looking for similarities, differences, and relationships

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the process by which one learns his or her culture is called

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e. enculturation

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essentially, anthropology as a discipline aims to study

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b. all of human kind in all times and places

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a cultural anthropologist conducting research involving cross-cultural, comparative studies of ethnographic data would be practicing

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c. ethnology

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"people have to eat, but culture teaches us what, when, and how to do so." this is an example of how

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A. culture takes the natural biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express them in particular ways

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in what way was michel de montaigne's essay "of cannibals" ahead of time?

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c. it used ethnography to critique western society and values

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which statement best describes the philosophy of herbert spencer influential book the social organism 1860?

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a. the evolution of societies moves from simple to complex. similar to an organism, change is driven by innate desire to survive

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according to herbert spencer, a primitive society

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c. has simple technology, undifferentiated social structure, and lacks economic specialization

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morgan's idea that all societies must evolve though progressive stages of savagery, barbarism, and civilization describes which idea?

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b. unilinear evolutionism

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in edward tylors book primitive culture, evolutionary theory is applied to what aspect of culture?

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e. religion, as originating in the concept of animism

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according to kottak, which method of data gathering would be best suited for conducting current, qualitative research on a small, isolated community

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b. ethnography

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the theory of functionalism is important to anthropology because it postulates that

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c. institutions and social structures and other separate parts of society affect each other and operate together, functioning like a system

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which of the following is true applied anthropology?

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e. it uses anthropology to develop solutions to social problems

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why did barbara myerhoff being her project as described in her film Number Our Days?

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D. her hispanic consultants in LA suggested that she look into her own people

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which of the following was not a study of franz boaz?

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a. marvin harris

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according to kottack, long term research of a culture, society or region usually based on repeated visits is described as

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d. longitudinal research

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this term describes the attitude of one's culture being superior to others

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e. ethnocentrism

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according to kottak, which of the following are different levels of culture?

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e. all of the above

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in the film first contact, a sing sing was

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d. the dance the indigenous papuans performed to tamp down an airstrip

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anthropologists early interest in native americans

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d. is an important historical reason for the development of four-field anthropology in the US

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Kottak tells us that a pidgin tongue, a mixed language that usually develops from direct trade and commerce between different cultures, is an example of what?

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a. acculturation

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in the film number our days, barbara myerhoff says that she witnessed the extraordinary act of one old man

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a. choosing the time of his own death

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in anthropology, cultural relativism is not a moral position so much as a methodological one. it states that

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c. to understand another culture, we must try to see how the people in that culture see things

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in the field, enthographers strive to establish rapport a good, friendly working relationship based on personal contact

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c. achieved in large part by engaging in participant observation

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according to lecture, the fact that you have limited time to finish this exam means that you are exemplifying

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d. m-time (monochronic time)

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the study of communication through body movements, stances, gestures, and facial expressions is known as

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c. kinesics

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what term refers to the arrangement and order of words into sentences?

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a. syntax

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what are phonemes?

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d. the minimal sound contrasts that distinguish meaning in a language

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which of the following was studied by sapir and whorf?

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b. the influence of language on thought

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the linguistic study of the strucutre of words and their meanings is

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d. morphology

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according to lecture, which of the following is not among the practical steps for preparing for ethnographic fieldwork?

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e. obtain a bachelors degree in anthroplogy

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traditional ethnography prior to the advent of feminism tended to be

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c. androcentric

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anthropology as natural science/natural history is all of the following except

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e. impartial

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despite the variety of research techniques that the ethnographer may utilize in the field, in the best studies the hallmark of ethnography remains

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e. the discipline's profound commitment to understanding human diversity

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traditional ethnographic research focused on the single community or culture, which was treated as more or less isolated and unique in time and space. however,

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b. there has been a shift within the discipline toward a recognition of ongoing and inescapable flows of people, technology, images, and information

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the ethnographer most associated with interpretive anthropology

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c. clifford geertz

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according to your textbook, where does copula deletion occur in BEV (black english vernacular)

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a. where SE has contractions