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ANTH101 Exam 1 questions with 100% VerifiedCorrect Answers 2024/2025
The roots of cultural anthropology and ethnographic fieldwork lie in: - Correct Answer late -
nineteenth century globalization
What do we call the system of human communication based on a set of symbols and signs with
learned and shared meanings? - Correct Answer language
What do we call an anthropologist working among a Native American group to map thier spoken
language inot a written form? - Correct Answer descriptive linguist
Many large corporations - Walmart, General Motors, and others - routinely operate larger numbers
of factories in places like China in order to take advantage of very cheap wages, putting workers in
their home country out of a job. What is this an example of? - Correct Answer flexible accumulation
What do we call the belief that one's own culture or way of life is normal and natural and the
practices of other people are abnormal and unnatural? - Correct Answer ethnocentrism
Early British anthropological researchers believed they could isolate and scientifically study the
structure and function of what? - Correct Answer society
Rather than studying changed in organism by alterations of the genetic code itself, epigenetics
examines changes caused by: - Correct Answer
Anthropology developed during an intense period of globalization in the nineteenth century. What
was one of major characteristics of that period of globalization that drove this development? -
Correct Answer transportation
E.E. Evans-Pritchard used a synchronic approach in establishing social anthropology through a(n): -
Correct Answer a methodical analysis of social life among the Nuer of Africa
We communicate with verbal language, but sometimes words cannot convey everything. Sometimes
we may unknowingly resort to a system of body movements as well as a collection of noises and tone
of voice in order to fully convey... - Correct Answer emotions
, Edward Burnett Tylor is credited with crafting the first definition of which of the following concepts
utilized in anthropology? - Correct Answer culture
The roots of today's anthropology emerged from very early accounts of travelers in pervious
centuries. What about these accounts helped fuel anthropological inquiry? - Correct Answer intense
curiosity about the nature of other unknown land and peoples
The theory of time-space compression suggest that the way we think about time and space has been
transformed. What do anthropologists think might be the underlying reason for this? - Correct
Answer rapid innovation of communication and transportation
If the decision to bomb a particular village hinges on the knowledge of culture provided by an
anthropologist, what kind of dilemma does the anthropologist face in deciding how much data to
collect and report? - Correct Answer ethical
Where in the body do we carry our genetic code? - Correct Answer
In late nineteenth0century debated on American immigration, many scholars and government
officials privileged immigrants from nothern Europe over those from southern Europe, such as
Italians and Greeks, because the official felt these southern people were a seperate and inferior
biological race with primitive ways. This is an example of: - Correct Answer ethnocentrism
What is the idea that humans are continually evolving and adapting, both on the species level and
within the individual lifespan? - Correct Answer human becomings
Anthropologists take a comprehensive approach to understanding human beings. They accomplish
this task by: - Correct Answer using the four-field approach
The distinct era in which human activity is reshaping the planet in permanent ways if referred to as
what? - Correct Answer anthropocene
American women are far more likely than men to distinguish between colors like teal and turquoise,
or magenta and purple. What is this an example of? - Correct Answer the gendered focal vocabulary
that exists within American culture
Climate change, including global warming, is primarily produced by what? - Correct Answer
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