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Cultural anthropology is ______. - Answer-the comparative study of human societies and cultures What is the study of past cultures through artifacts? - Answer-archaeology Which orientation do anthropologists use to study human behavior? - Answer-Holistic Which subdiscipline examines human ...

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Cultural anthropology is ______. - Answer-the comparative study of human societies
and cultures

What is the study of past cultures through artifacts? - Answer-archaeology

Which orientation do anthropologists use to study human behavior? - Answer-Holistic

Which subdiscipline examines human variation? - Answer-biological anthropology

What other animal, besides humans, do anthropologists study? - Answer-Chimps

Fish are to water as humans are to ______. - Answer-culture

At the turn of the 20th century, which anthropologist strongly supported biopsychological
equality? - Answer-Franz Boas

Which type of anthropologist studies syndemics? - Answer-medical anthropologists

Each society occupies a single geographic location. - Answer-False

Ethnocentrism is uniquely American. - Answer-False

The basis of all modern anthropological research is ______. - Answer-fieldwork

Which concept describes applying one's own cultural standards when evaluating other
cultures? - Answer-ethnocentrism

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) exist to ______. - Answer-protect human subjects of
anthropological research

A(n) _______ perspective seeks to explain the behavior of a culture, through an
anthropologist's comparison to their own culture. - Answer-metic

Which perspective within anthropology suggests that all knowledge is influenced by the
observer's culture and social position? - Answer-postmodernism

The program known as ______ involved anthropologists training the U.S. military in
specific aspects of culture. - Answer-Human Terrain Systems

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