Chapter 1: Anthropology - Asking Questions About Humanity Exam Questions With Correct Answers.
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Chapter 1: Anthropology - Asking Questions
About Humanity Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
Human beings are one of the world's most _____ _____. - answerAdaptable Animals
Effectively establishing strong social and political bonds in spite of human differences requires
having a _____ _____ ...
Chapter 1: Anthropology - Asking Questions
About Humanity Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
Human beings are one of the world's most _____ _____. - answer✔✔Adaptable Animals
Effectively establishing strong social and political bonds in spite of human differences requires
having a _____ _____ _____ _____ _____. - answer✔✔Practical understanding of human
variation
Who is Confucius? - answer✔✔A great Chinese Philosopher who lived from 551-479 BCE. He
wrote "Analects" and spoke on principles in how to establish relationships with yi.
Define "yi". - answer✔✔meaning cultural and ethnic outsiders in Chinese.
Who is Herodotus? - answer✔✔A Greek historian who lived from 484-425 BCE. He wrote the
multi-volume piece "Histories".
What did Herodotus' multi-volume piece "Histories" discuss? - answer✔✔It described the
diverse peoples and societies he encountered during his travels in Africa, Southwestern Asia, and
India. Which offered a number of possible explanations for the variations he observed across
groups.
"But if we Americans want to be successful in dealing with people international in politics, trade,
treaties, and global environmental or health policies, we need to understand the _____ _____
people from other countries and the cultures _____ _____ _____ _____ _____. -
answer✔✔Systemic ways; that guide and motivate them.
Anthropology is... - answer✔✔the study of human beings, their biology, their prehistory, and
histories, and their dynamic languages, cultures and social institutions.
Anthropology provides a framework for... - answer✔✔Asking questions about and grasping the
complexity of human experience, both past and present.
Anthropology is about... - answer✔✔where humans have been
Anthropology also provides knowledge that helps to _____ _____ _____ _____. -
answer✔✔solve human problems today
During the 19th century anthropology emerged in... - answer✔✔Europe and North America
What did anthropology 1st emerge as in the 19th century? - answer✔✔An academic discipline
devoted to the systematic observation and analysis of human variation.
Anthropology was made possible once intellectuals and scholars had developed... -
answer✔✔rigorous ways of comparing different species and people with different cultures.
What are the 3 key concerns that began to emerge by the 1850's that eventually shaped
professional anthropology? - answer✔✔1) the disruptions of industrialization in Europe and
America
2) the rise of evolutionary theories
3) the growing importance of Europe's far-flung colonies with large indigenous populations who
land, mineral wealth, and labor Europeans and Americans wanted to control
Define Industrialization - answer✔✔the economic process of shifting from an agricultural
economy to a factory-based economy
Industrialization disrupted American and European societies by... - answer✔✔bringing large
numbers of rural people into towns and cities to work in factories
The rise of industrial towns and cities raised questions about... - answer✔✔how society was
changing and how a factory-based economy and the attendant growth of cities shaped society,
government, residential patterns, and culture.
How did anthropology begin? - answer✔✔Early anthropological thought emerged during the
Enlightenment (late 1600s-1700s)
What historical period caused the profesionalization of anthropology? - answer✔✔Mid-19th
century industrialization
Name some disruptions caused by Industrialization. - answer✔✔It interrupted American and
European societies by bringing large numbers of rural people into towns and cities to work in
factories.
Evolution by natural selection (Darwin's "dangerous idea") challenged... - answer✔✔Beliefs of
his society when "On the Origin of Species" was published in 1859
Evolutionary theories were subsequently... - answer✔✔Applied to the study of culture.
Colonial powers employed anthropologists to... - answer✔✔better understand the indigenous
peoples of their colonies.
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