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ANTH 411 Exam Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Exam #3 True/False: It is important to study subcultures within cultures because you can learn more specific information about a group of people with common interests, occupations, statuses, roles, and/or identities. - correc...

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ANTH 411 Exam #3
True/False: It is important to study subcultures within cultures because you
can learn more specific information about a group of people with common
interests, occupations, statuses, roles, and/or identities. - correct answer
✔True


Who defined culture as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,
art, law, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by
man as a member of society"? - correct answer ✔E. B. Tylor


In the article Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, Horace Miner tried to show
American life from an ___ perspective, with the effect of causing American
readers to have an ___ response. - correct answer ✔etic/ethnocentric


Enculturation teaches us that there is one right way of doing things, however,
because everyone in every culture goes through a different process of
enculturation, anthropologists realize the imp.. of taking a _____ perspective
as a way to better understand what those processes look like and where they
come from. - correct answer ✔Culturally relativistic


True/False: Part of taking a cultural relativistic perspective is understanding
historical particularism - the idea that all cultures have rich histories and
reasons behind the norms they practice, and that these norms are not
arbitrary nor do they exist in a vacuum. - correct answer ✔True


The idea that cultures are the product of unique histories, and that to
understand a people or culture, we must understand their particulars was an
idea promoted by: - correct answer ✔Franz Boas

, Which of the following is not one of the four main subfields of anthropology? -
correct answer ✔Forensic anthropology


This archaeologist attempts to locate undocumented archaeological sites
through processing of satellite imagery. - correct answer ✔Sarah Parcak


The field of archaeological anthropology studies cultures of the past by
looking at the artifacts that remain. - correct answer ✔True


In her fieldwork with prostitutes, Claire Sterk primarily gathered ______ data
in the form of interviews and narratives. - correct answer ✔Qualitative


The first anthropologist to spend good time living among a culture for a long
period of time and who coined the term "participant observation" was: - correct
answer ✔Bronislaw Malinowski


The process of doing anthropological fieldwork, including the written end
result, is often referred to as ethnography. - correct answer ✔True


When I worked in Belize, I relied heavily on my friend Sonny, who is a
respected elder in the community of Crooked Tree. Sonny pretty much knows
the entire history of the community, who is related to whom and how, and he
always has his finger on the gossip pulse. My research, which looked at
linguistic transitions as Crooked Tree became linked to the rest of Belize via
highway rather than the river, wouldn't have been possible without the help of
Sonny. - correct answer ✔Key informant


Which of the following is not one of the important ethical considerations for
anthropologists? - correct answer ✔Get governmental approval

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