Asking Questions About Cultural Anthropology. Exam Questions With Correct Answers.
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Asking Questions About Cultural
Anthropology. Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
An anthropologist who runs tests on how modern humans walk and what evolutionary
mechanisms were at play would most likely be a(n) - answerphysical anthropologist
An anthropologist doing a project on how the Int...
Asking Questions About Cultural
Anthropology. Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
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.
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