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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Monday, July 22, 2024 1:06 PMCultural Anthropology Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
Anthropology is usually divided into four fields, but some people claim that a fifth, known as
________, should be included. - ✔️✔️Applied anthropology
Biological anthropologists focus on _____. - ✔️✔️Human evolution and contemporary human
variation.
Archaeologists use which of the following as research materials? - ✔️✔️old pottery, stone tools,
ruined houses, contemporary garbage heaps.
The field of anthropology that studies human language and communication is called ______. -
✔️✔️linguistic anthropology
The cultural materialist interpretation of the Hindu belief in sacred cows points to _____. -
✔️✔️their economic and environmental value.
A major theoretical debate exists in cultural anthropology today between _______. - ✔️✔️cultural
materialists and interpretivist anthropologists.
According to the text, micro cultures can be formed on the basis of____. - ✔️✔️age, class, race,
and gender
People who have a longstanding connection with their home territory predating colonialism are
referred to as _____. - ✔️✔️indigenous people
The tendency to apply one's own cultural values in judging the behavior and beliefs of people
raised in other cultures is known as - ✔️✔️cultural universalism
The main goal of cultural anthropology is to - ✔️✔️understand why people behave and think the
way they do
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The theoretical approach which is the view that powerful structures such as economics, politics,
and media shape cultures and create entrenched systems of inequality and oppression is referred
to in the text as - ✔️✔️structurism
Most nonhuman primate species are - ✔️✔️arboreal, quadrupedal and diurnal
The earliest known primitive hominid is - ✔️✔️Sahelanthropus tchadensis
Current paleoanthropological evidence indicates that the human ancestral line diverged from that
of the living great apes - ✔️✔️4-8 million years ago
Tapeworm infections in archaic homo likely indicate - ✔️✔️eating meat
Archaeologist Ian Gilligan differentiates between what two types of clothing and their thermal
effectiveness in situations of extreme cold in explaining Neanderthal extinction? - ✔️✔️simple and
complex
The most recently discovered species of Homo, a dwarfed from found on an island in the Pacific
has been named______. - ✔️✔️Florensiensis
Most known Neanderthal sites in W. Europe are located in ______. - ✔️✔️in caves and rock
shelters
Evidence suggests that the first hominids left Africa - ✔️✔️around 2 million years ago
The fossil Lucy fits in the category of - ✔️✔️early hominins
Gorillas live in what type of social group - ✔️✔️single-male, multi-female
Modern humans are not part of the primate order - ✔️✔️False
Like humans, most primate species are highly social - ✔️✔️True
One thing about which most cultural anthropologists agree is - ✔️✔️the importance of fieldwork
On the basis of his experience in the Trobriand Islands during WWI, Malinowski is generally
considered to be - ✔️✔️the "father" of participant observation
Given current globalization and the rarity of small, isolated cultures, many contemporary cultural
anthropologists have abandoned - ✔️✔️participant observation
In the Trobriand Islands, the British colonialists substituted which activity for local warfare -
✔️✔️Cricket
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