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ANTH 201 Exam 1 Detailed Questions and Expert Answers
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- Anthropology
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- University Of California - Berkeley
ANTH 201 Exam 1 Detailed Questions and Expert Answers
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ANTH 201 Exam 1 Detailed Questions and ExpertAnswers
How can anthropology be best defined? - ANS As the scholarly study of human
beings.
Much of the social and cultural life that embeds humans in their daily activities
results from the finding, distributing, preparing, consuming, and disposing of - ANS
food
What factors have contributed to the increasing importance of anthropological
studies of peoples' foodways? - ANS A decrease in agricultural methods and
increase in capitalist societies.
One of the many reasons why anthropologists can contribute to discussions on
sustainability is because they have long sought to learn about long-term
interactions of people in their environments. Anthropologists do this in part
because they - ANS seek to understand the reasons for societal successes and
failures in all of Earth's ecosystems.
Humans can move around on two legs; this is known as - ANS bipedalism
Culture can be defined as - ANS the learned and shared things that people have,
think, and do as members of a society.
,Subsistence strategies, diet, social and political systems, communication,
technology, art, and ideologies are all components of what? - ANS Culture.
Foraging (also known as hunting and gathering), pastoralism, and horticulture are
all methods by which people get food, which is otherwise described by
anthropologists as - ANS subsistence.
Subsistence—or, how people get food—includes various methods, including - ANS
foraging, pastoralism, and horticulture.
Culture should be understood as - ANS dynamic, fluid, and ever-changing.
What are the four fields of anthropology? - ANS Cultural anthropology,
archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.
Cultural anthropologists often immerse themselves in a culture using what kind of
ethnographic research? - ANS Participant observation.
When a cultural anthropologist creates a written description of a particular culture
after being immersed in that culture, it is called - ANS an ethnography
Ethnographic research entails - ANS immersion in a culture through fieldwork.
Archaeology is the study of humans through what means? - ANS material remains
, Archaeologists rely on what kinds of raw data when examining the physical
remains of human activity in the past? - ANS Sites and artifacts.
Archaeologists seek to - ANS describe, explain, and document the human past.
Cultural resource management or commercial archaeology involves - ANS looking
for and recording archaeological sites in advance of development projects.
Biological anthropologists seek to - ANS study past and present human biology and
variability.
The two subfields of biological anthropology that seek to study nonhuman
primates and early human biology and culture are respectively known as - ANS
primatology and palaeoanthropology.
Primatologists, who study a subfield of biological anthropology, are mainly
interested in primates because - ANS a biological perspective provides a better
understanding of our place in the animal world, as well as possible models for how
early humans may have behaved.
Linguistic anthropologists seek to - ANS study various aspects of human languages
By studying language change and cultural influence on language, linguists can, for
example, - ANS determine past migrations and interactions of humans.
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