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ANTH 1001 Exam 1 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers 2024/2025 What is Anthropology? - Correct Answer Anthropology is the study of humankind, viewed from the perspective of all people and all times. It includes four branches or subdisciplines: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguisti...

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What is Anthropology? - Correct Answer Anthropology is the study of humankind, viewed from the
perspective of all people and all times. It includes four branches or subdisciplines: cultural
anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology.



What makes anthropology different from other social science fields? - Correct Answer It's a
comparative discipline, biocultural approach.



Ethnocentrism - Correct Answer Thinking your own ethnicity is the center of the world.



Name and define the four major subfields. - Correct Answer 1. Cultural Anthropology - study of
customary patterns in human behavior, thought, and feelings. Describes, analyzes, interprets, and
explains social and cultural similarities and differences.

2. Archaeology - study of human cultures through the recovery, analysis, and interpretation of
material culture from past civilizations. Considered the cultural anthropology of the human past.

3. Linguistic Anthropology - study of language. Allows people to preserve and transmit details of their
culture from generation to generation.

4. Biological Anthropology - systematic study of humans as biological organisms.



What are some examples of each? - Correct Answer Cultural Anthropology - Ethnography

Archaeology - Zooarchaeology

Linguistic Anthropology - Socio-linguistics

Biological Anthropology - Primatology



Explain how all four of the subfields can be considered anthropology. - Correct Answer They all
acknowledge the diversity of humankind in all contexts. No other discipline embraces the breadth of
the human condition in this manner. Also the diverse discipline differs from other disciplines in its
commitment to the notion that unlike other animals, humans are biocultural.



Explain the concept of a theory. - Correct Answer An explanation as to why a natural phenomenon
takes place. The scientist thus uses observation, documentation, and testing to generate hypotheses
and, eventually, to construct a theory based on those hypotheses.



What does it mean to say that anthropology is a science? What does this entail? - Correct Answer
They derive knowledge via the scientific method

, John Ray - Correct Answer species/genus



Carolus Linnaeus - Correct Answer Systema Naturae (1758), Taxonomy, Binomial nomenclature



Comte de Buffon - Correct Answer dynamic relationship between environment and life



Erasmus Darwin - Correct Answer Zoonomia and Temple of Nature



Jean Baptiste Lamarck - Correct Answer theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics and
animals change in response to their environment (i.e. Short-necked Giraffes to Longer-necked
descendants).



Georges Cuvier - Correct Answer Catastrophism



Thomas Malthus - Correct Answer Malthus Theory: population increases faster than resources and
thus there is a crisis point



Essay on Principles of Population: Two Principles - Correct Answer -Malthus

1. more individuals are born in a species than reach maturity

2. high death rate before adulthood is a result of "struggle for existence"



James Hutton - Correct Answer founder of modern geology

-Uniformitarianism: rejects catastrophism, the processes at work today in forming the Earth have
always been at work

-earth is millions of years old



Charles Lyell - Correct Answer Catastrophism vs. Gradualism? Both.



Mary Anning - Correct Answer Fossil collector: Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus



Fixity of species - Correct Answer all species remained unchanged throughout the history of the
earth.

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