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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
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