Question 1

Which of the following is NOT an element of the anthropological perspective?

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A)   Holism.
B)   Comparison.
C)   An evolutionary approach.
D)   Learning dependent.

Question 2

An extended period of close involvement by anthropologists with the people whose life is of interest to them is called

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A)   Fieldwork.
B)   Surveying.
C)   Interviewing.
D)   Information gathering. A

Question 3

Paleoanthropologists study

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A)   Modern apes.
B)   Biological variation in living human populations.
C)   Fossilized bones and teeth.
D)   Nutrition and physical development.

Question 4

How might a college undergraduate benefit from taking a course in cultural anthropology?

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Question 5

To emphasize that human beings are biocultural organisms means that

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A)   Human biology and culture both contribute to human behavior.
B)   Human biology makes culture possible and human culture makes human biological survival possible.
C)   Instinct must be recognized as an important part of any explanation of human behavior.
D)   Both a and b

Question 6

Most anthropologists reject singular explanations of human behavior. Instead, they employ a _________ perspective.

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A)   Humanistic.
B)   Ethnological.
C)   Evolutionary.
D)   Biocultural.

Question 7

A description of a particular culture is called an

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A)   Ethnohistory.
B)   Ethnography.
C)   Ethnology.
D)   Ethnographer.

Question 8

According to the text, evolution may be understood broadly as

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A)   Attributes and behaviors that are passed on by the genes.
B)   Beliefs and behaviors that are passed on by teaching and learning.
C)   Change over time.
D)   Transformations of species over time.

Question 9

The people of society X believe that the people of society Y are inherently inferior to them biologically and prevent them from gaining access to a high level of education and other resources. According to the text, this is an example of

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A)   Racism.
B)   Ethnocentrism.
C)   Labeling.
D)   Holism.

Question 10

Choose one of the five subdisciplines in anthropology and explain what is distinctive about its approach to the human condition.

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One of the five subdisciplines in anthropology is cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology is distinctive in its approach to the human condition because it focuses on the study of human cultures and societies. This subdiscipline seeks to understand the diversity of human behavior, beliefs, and practices across different societies and how these cultural elements shape people's lives. Cultural anthropologists often conduct fieldwork, immersing themselves in the daily lives of the people they study to gain a deep understanding of their cultural practices and beliefs. This approach allows cultural anthropologists to explore the complexities of human societies and the ways in which culture influences human behavior and social organization. Additionally, cultural anthropology emphasizes the importance of understanding and respecting different cultural perspectives, making it a valuable subdiscipline for promoting cross-cultural understanding and addressing global issues.

Question 11

Write a short definition of anthropology and describe its connection to the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the humanities.

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Question 12

The anthropological research methodology called participant-observation is characterized by

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A)   Long-term intensive interviewing of informants.
B)   Spending extended periods of time both watching and recording behavior, especially in public places.
C)   Both getting involved in social activities and watching those activities.
D)   Becoming a member of the society being studied.

Question 13

An anthropologist is sitting in the town square in a Bolivian village watching a group of women who are chatting. One wanders over and asks the anthropologist whether she would like to join them in shopping for thread for their looms and then help to string the looms. She agrees, and they go off together. This form of research is called

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A)   Participant-observation.
B)   Working with informants.
C)   Cultural sharing.
D)   Reciprocal research.

Question 14

A comparative study of many cultures is called

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A)   Ethnohistory.
B)   Ethnography.
C)   Ethnology.
D)   Ethnographer.

Question 15

By the early twentieth century, some anthropologists and biologists concluded that the concept of "race" was

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A)   Justified by the increasingly scientific biological research on human beings.
B)   A cultural label invented by human beings to sort people into groups.
C)   A political liability, although the evidence was increasingly strong in its favor.
D)   A label that recognized important intellectual and biological differences among groups.

Question 16

A contemporary cultural anthropologist is likely to study

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A)   Political institutions in a village in another country.
B)   Kinship systems in an urban setting.
C)   Patterns of material life in his or her own society.
D)   Any of the above. D

Question 17

An anthropologist studying a social group observes that people shake hands when greeting one another and concludes that handshaking is universal among human beings. This study is faulty because the anthropologist has not been

Accepted Answer

A)   Holistic.
B)   Evolutionary.
C)   Ethnocentric.
D)   Comparative.

Question 18

Anthropologists place their observations about human culture and society in a temporal framework. This consideration of change over time relies on theories of

Accepted Answer

A)   Holism.
B)   Ethnology.
C)   Evolution.
D)   Developmental anthropology.

Question 19

According to the text, culture consists of

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A)   Sets of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society.
B)   Those elements of the human experience that require education and good taste, such as art, music, and dance.
C)   Sets of innate instincts that enable human beings to function in a complex world.
D)   Those sets of behaviors and ideas that enable human beings to appreciate differences between one society and another.

Question 20

Biological anthropologists are interested in

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A)   The material remains of the human past.
B)   Human beings as biological organisms.
C)   Present-day social arrangements in human groups.
D)   Human symbolic communication.

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