ANTH 411 Final Exam
George Armelagos - correct answer ✔- The Viral Superhighway
- Human health
- Environmental disruptions and international travel
Paul Farmer - correct answer ✔- Disease is "socially embedded": can be
explained by cultural factors—political, economic, religious
- Partners in Health: Health care is a human right—much can be done about
global inequalities in health
John Bodley - correct answer ✔- Created "The Price of Progress"
- The standard of living vs. the quality of life
Gerald Murray - correct answer ✔- Interest is applied anthropology, created
a project in Haiti donating trees to half a million farm families, thinks cultural
anthropology is made up of 3 sequences
- 1. Fieldwork documentation
- 2. cross -cultural comparison and contrast
- 3. The search for causal explanations
- Says that based on the 3 segments applied anthropology builds on them
indicating that no cultural group of people function optimally seen in poverty,
disease, violence, says it's all due to internal and external cultural factors and
can be solved using intellect.
Richard Lee - correct answer ✔- Ethnography on the Ju/'hoansi
- Known for hunter gatherer society
,David Rohde - correct answer ✔- Two time winning pulitzer prize
- Writes for the new york times
- Published an article on HTT (human terrain team) members that were
recognized for their work in the combat zone for helping soldiers realized the
cultural perspective and landscape of Afghanistan and allow them to cut back
on combat operations
E.B. Tylor - correct answer ✔- An English anthropologist who defined the
context of the scientific study of anthropology based on evolutionary theories
Franz Boas - correct answer ✔- Founding father of American Anthropology
regularly engaged in all 4 fields
- Founder of historical particularism and cultural determinism - the idea your
cultural background shapes your position in society.
Bronislaw Malinowski - correct answer ✔- Arguably the most influential
anthropologist of the 20th century. Most influential british anthropologist.
Rejected evolutionary paradigm and introduced functionalism
- Founder of fieldwork and ethnography
- Founder of Participant Observation
- "Imponderabilia of daily life"
- Routine happenings
- "Real substance of social fabric"
- "Native's point of view"
- Grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his
world"
- What is important to native.
, Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in NH - correct answer ✔- 5 different
refugees in NH
- All refugees are immigrants, but not all immigrants are refugees
- Film was based upon the stories of people who had to flee their home
countries and come to the United States, and how that change was difficult for
them. Focused on the challenges and hardships they suffered.
Then There Were None - correct answer ✔- Native Hawaiians → decreasing
- Structural violence, hard to point a finger at someone
- About how Native Hawaiians population decreased when the Westerners
settled on their land
- Ideas of structural violence were huge in this movie
Wayfinders - correct answer ✔- A film in which Nainoa Thompson
- Depended on natural resources such as the stars and waves to navigate
- Special skill and training to become a navigator
- Used natural resources to construct the vessel - tree
- Navigating on the open ocean without sextant, compass, clock, radio, or
satellite reports
Medical Anthropology - correct answer ✔- Rests on belief that medicine and
illness are also impacted by culture
- Applied medical anthropology, anthropological studies, critical medical
anthropology
Applied and Critical medical anthropology - correct answer ✔- Applied
medical anthropology-Hands on help/research/work (Farmer)
- Critical medical anthropology- Critiques our own system (or others)
George Armelagos - correct answer ✔- The Viral Superhighway
- Human health
- Environmental disruptions and international travel
Paul Farmer - correct answer ✔- Disease is "socially embedded": can be
explained by cultural factors—political, economic, religious
- Partners in Health: Health care is a human right—much can be done about
global inequalities in health
John Bodley - correct answer ✔- Created "The Price of Progress"
- The standard of living vs. the quality of life
Gerald Murray - correct answer ✔- Interest is applied anthropology, created
a project in Haiti donating trees to half a million farm families, thinks cultural
anthropology is made up of 3 sequences
- 1. Fieldwork documentation
- 2. cross -cultural comparison and contrast
- 3. The search for causal explanations
- Says that based on the 3 segments applied anthropology builds on them
indicating that no cultural group of people function optimally seen in poverty,
disease, violence, says it's all due to internal and external cultural factors and
can be solved using intellect.
Richard Lee - correct answer ✔- Ethnography on the Ju/'hoansi
- Known for hunter gatherer society
,David Rohde - correct answer ✔- Two time winning pulitzer prize
- Writes for the new york times
- Published an article on HTT (human terrain team) members that were
recognized for their work in the combat zone for helping soldiers realized the
cultural perspective and landscape of Afghanistan and allow them to cut back
on combat operations
E.B. Tylor - correct answer ✔- An English anthropologist who defined the
context of the scientific study of anthropology based on evolutionary theories
Franz Boas - correct answer ✔- Founding father of American Anthropology
regularly engaged in all 4 fields
- Founder of historical particularism and cultural determinism - the idea your
cultural background shapes your position in society.
Bronislaw Malinowski - correct answer ✔- Arguably the most influential
anthropologist of the 20th century. Most influential british anthropologist.
Rejected evolutionary paradigm and introduced functionalism
- Founder of fieldwork and ethnography
- Founder of Participant Observation
- "Imponderabilia of daily life"
- Routine happenings
- "Real substance of social fabric"
- "Native's point of view"
- Grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his
world"
- What is important to native.
, Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in NH - correct answer ✔- 5 different
refugees in NH
- All refugees are immigrants, but not all immigrants are refugees
- Film was based upon the stories of people who had to flee their home
countries and come to the United States, and how that change was difficult for
them. Focused on the challenges and hardships they suffered.
Then There Were None - correct answer ✔- Native Hawaiians → decreasing
- Structural violence, hard to point a finger at someone
- About how Native Hawaiians population decreased when the Westerners
settled on their land
- Ideas of structural violence were huge in this movie
Wayfinders - correct answer ✔- A film in which Nainoa Thompson
- Depended on natural resources such as the stars and waves to navigate
- Special skill and training to become a navigator
- Used natural resources to construct the vessel - tree
- Navigating on the open ocean without sextant, compass, clock, radio, or
satellite reports
Medical Anthropology - correct answer ✔- Rests on belief that medicine and
illness are also impacted by culture
- Applied medical anthropology, anthropological studies, critical medical
anthropology
Applied and Critical medical anthropology - correct answer ✔- Applied
medical anthropology-Hands on help/research/work (Farmer)
- Critical medical anthropology- Critiques our own system (or others)
