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ANTH 411 Final Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Final Gerald Murray - correct answer Deforestation of Haiti David Rohde - correct answer Human terrain system Richard Lee - correct answer Ju/'huansi anthropology E.B. Tylor - correct answer o Culture: " cul...

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ANTH 411 Final
Gerald Murray - correct answer ✔Deforestation of Haiti


David Rohde - correct answer ✔Human terrain system


Richard Lee - correct answer ✔Ju/'huansi anthropology


E.B. Tylor - correct answer ✔o Culture: " culture, or civilization, taken in its
broad, ethnographic sense, is a complex whole which includes knowledge,
belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired
by man as a member of society."
o Culture is:
• The way of life of a people, the things they do and make, their ideas
• Trans-generational
• Continuously reworked and created
• Shared
• Socially constructed - it is taught, over time is permeates over thinking and
behavior


Franz Boas - correct answer ✔o "Father of American Anthropology
o Professor at Columbia University
o Led early 1900's reaction to evolutionary thinking
o Fieldwork
o Historical Particularism and cultural determinism


Bronislaw Malinowski - correct answer ✔magic, science, religion

,trobriand island fishermen


science:
-based on rational understanding of physical principles
-based on empirical knowledge of the world


Magic:
invokes supernatural powers - to coerce them
based on faith, rather than scientific proof


Religion:
based on belief in supernatural powers
not coercive, but uses prayer to beseech the supernatural


Horace Miner - correct answer ✔Horace Miner, Nacirema
o Written about Americans
o Unusual rituals
• Daily "mouth rite"
• "holy mouth man"
• Daily body rituals for men and women
• "our review of the ritual life of the Nacirema has...shown them to be a magic-
ridden people. It is hard to understand how they have managed to
exist...under the burdens which they have imposed upon themselves"
o Critique of ethnocentrism and ethnocentric ways of writing about a culture
• Example of an "outsiders perspective"

, • "Looking for far and above, from our high places of safety in the developed
civilization, it is easy to see all the crudity and irrelevance of magic."
(Malinowski)
• Human behavior is arbitrary
• Examples of ritual


Margaret Mead - correct answer ✔first anthropologist to argue gender and
sex are culturally constructed categories


research aimed to distinguish between biological and cultural factors


Haiti - correct answer ✔deforestation


U.S. - Military - correct answer ✔Human terrain system


Ju/'hoansi - correct answer ✔o Kalahari Desert people
o once nomadic, now almost sedentary
o Same people, different name:
• Ju/'hoansi vs. !Kung vs. San
o Widely Studied


-Marshall and Lee


applied/practical anthropology - correct answer ✔Study directed toward
gaining knowledge in an effort to meet some basic need


Use of anthropological skills, knowledge, access, and experience to help in
the solution of human problems

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