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Test Bank For Asking Questions About Cultural Anthropology
Concise Introduction 2nd Edition By Robert L. Welsch , Luis A.
Vivanco 9780190878078 ALL Chapters .

An anthropologist who runs tests on how modern humans walk and what evolutionary mechanisms
were at play would most likely be a(n) - ANSWER: physical anthropologist

An anthropologist doing a project on how the Internet and text message technology have changed
how we communicate would most likely be a __________ anthropologist. - ANSWER: linguistic

An anthropologist who studies how Levi's jeans are affecting fashion among rural Indonesians is a(n) -
ANSWER: cultural anthropologist.

The observation of a phenomenon followed by a hypothesis, experimentation, testing of theories, and
descriptions of findings is called - ANSWER: the scientific method.

In a study where an anthropologist is collecting stories, memories, beliefs, jokes, conversations,
interviews, and disagreements, he or she is collecting __________ data. - ANSWER: qualitative

Culture is - ANSWER: symbolic.

___________ is the field of study that examines moral questions of right and wrong. - ANSWER: Ethics

When an anthropologist studying food culture is learning how to cook a local dish with her
informants, she is - ANSWER: doing participant observation.

The scientific method begins with - ANSWER: the observation of a fact.

Industrialization is a shift from - ANSWER: farming to factories.

If an anthropologist was attempting to collect the cultural knowledge, language, and artifacts of a
specific group of people, for fear they might be dying out, this person would be employing - ANSWER:
the salvage paradigm.

A linguistic anthropologist would be least interested in which of the following research projects? -
ANSWER: the circulation of American graphic t-shirts in sub-Saharan Africa

If Angela was conducting a research project where she was comparing plastic surgery clinics in the
United States and South Korea, she would be employing the __________ method? - ANSWER:
comparative

A qualitative analysis of a needle exchange program would emphasize - ANSWER: needle-users'
perspectives on the accessibility and utility of the program.

Anthropologists draw their conclusions from information they verify via observation, rather than
through logic or theory alone. This research method is known as - ANSWER: empiricism.

Natural selection - ANSWER: is the process by which inheritable traits are passed along to offspring
because the traits are better suited to the environment.

It is important to be clear about the anthropological work you are doing in any field site; therefore, it
is important to get the permission of your subjects by - ANSWER: informed consent.

, Susan is an American who traveled to Kenya and was continuously telling her travel companions how
everything in the United States was better and more advanced. Susan was being - ANSWER:
ethnocentric.

Cultural relativism is the principle that - ANSWER: one should seek to understand cultures on their
own terms.

When an anthropologist examines birthing practices in the United States and Mexico, he or she is
employing - ANSWER: the comparative method.

__________ excavate sites where written historical documentation about the site is present. -
ANSWER: Historical archaeologists

Charles Darwin developed the theory of - ANSWER: natural selection.

The salvage paradigm in anthropology - ANSWER: documents languages before they die out.

Holism - ANSWER: synthesizes the entirety of the human experience.

Quantitative data include - ANSWER: body measurements.

An applied anthropologist would be most interested in studying - ANSWER: the most effective
distribution of tuberculosis drugs for a health clinic.

For an anthropologist considering the ethical implications of his or her research, the top priority
would be whether - ANSWER: the communities his or her study will feel any negative impact as a
result of the study.

__________ was not a driving force in early anthropology. - ANSWER: First wave feminism

A team of cultural anthropologists studying the idea of "smartness" in a school district would be most
likely to - ANSWER: interview teachers and administrators about how "smartness" is defined.

A historical archaeologist would most likely be found at - ANSWER: recently discovered slave quarters
from the early nineteenth century.

Anthropology - ANSWER: The study of human beings, their biology, their prehistory and histories, and
their changing languages, cultures, and social institutions.

Applied anthropology - ANSWER: Anthropological research commissioned to serve an organization's
needs.

Archaeology - ANSWER: The study of past cultures by excavating sites where people lived, worked,
farmed, or conducted some other activity.

Biological anthropology - ANSWER: The study of the biological aspects of the human species, past and
present, along with those of our closest relatives, the nonhuman primates.

Colonialism - ANSWER: The historical practice of more powerful countries claiming possession of less
powerful ones.

Comparative method - ANSWER: A research method that derives insights from a systematic
comparison of aspects of two or more cultures or societies.

Cultural Anthropology - ANSWER: The study of the social lives of living communities

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