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Exam study book International Humanitarian Law of Emily Crawford, Alison Pert - ISBN: 9781108727716 (Humanity)

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  • September 13, 2024
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Test Bank For Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural
Anthropology 11th Edition By James Peoples; Garrick
Bailey
The moral and intellectual principle that one should withhold judgement about
seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices is - ANSWER: cultural relativism

The thinker who developed the evolutionary theory or natural selection in the 19th
century - ANSWER: Charles Darwin

Increasing, professional anthropologists are - ANSWER: all of the above

The 19th century British anthropologist who is credited with the development of the
concept of culture through an evolutionary perspective where the most evolved
societies resembled the British societies in which he lived was - ANSWER: E.B. Tylor

The primary ethical responsibility of anthropologists is to - ANSWER: the people or
species they study

Diversity defined anthropologically - ANSWER: focuses on multiplicity and variety

A key element of the scientific method, which both explains things and guide
research, is - ANSWER: theories

The comparative method - ANSWER: all of the above

Even though anthropologists use parts of the scientific method, some dont see what
they do as science because - ANSWER: the complexity of social behavior prevents
any completely objective analysis of human culture

There is rarely any guessing involved in the development of theories because they
are tested repeatedly T/F - ANSWER: True

What prompted intellectuals to start systematically explaining the differences among
people? - ANSWER: the Industrial Revolution

Western colonial powers understood the different customs and cultures of the
people they colonized as - ANSWER: proof of their primitive nature

Which of the following is the most significant aspect of the salvage paradigm? -
ANSWER: anthropologists need to collect information from societies before they die
out

During fieldwork cultural anthropologists - ANSWER: all of the above

Linguistic anthropologists traditionally sttudy - ANSWER: all of the above

, A realistic perspective on the meanings of Coca-cola in Tzotzil Maya communitites in
Chiapas, Mexico, would emphasize - ANSWER: that they, the Tzotzil, are dominated
by globalization

An ethical approach to anthropological research would emphasize - ANSWER: all of
the above

Contemporary cultural anthropologists still rank societies along an evolutionary scale
from "primitive" to "advanced" T/F - ANSWER: False

The main idea behind the holistic perspective is to study culture - ANSWER: through
systematic connections of different parts

Because our values and beliefs are reflected in many elements of life such as clothes,
food, and language means that culture is - ANSWER: intergrated

The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are refered to as - ANSWER:
traditions

The application of a holistic perspective to understand changes in everyday
practices, such as eating breakfast cereals, reveals - ANSWER: the processes of
cultural appropriation

A cross-cultural perspective on eating insect larvae would reveal - ANSWER: all of the
above

The defining feature of historical particularism is - ANSWER: individual societies
develop particular cultural traits and undergo a unique process of change

A symbol - ANSWER: all of the above

The controversy between Native Americans and NCAA schools using mascots
illustrates - ANSWER: the power of tradition

Who is responsible for the theory of social evolution - ANSWER: E.B. Tylor

The theory of culture that proposes that cultural practices, beliefs, and institutions
fulfill the psychological and physical needs of society is call - ANSWER: functionalism

The idea that embraces dynamic cultural processes and the idea that the observer of
cultural processes can never see culture completely objectively represent - ANSWER:
post-structuralism

Cultural determinism is unproductive for cultural analysis because - ANSWER: all of
the above

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