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1. Which of the following characteristics uniquely defines the anthropological approach? A. a concern with the study of humans B. a focus on human relationships and society C. a focus on humans as biological organisms D. a holistic perspective - Answer-D. Holistic Perspective The holistic ...

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1. Which of the following characteristics uniquely defines the anthropological approach?

A. a concern with the study of humans
B. a focus on human relationships and society
C. a focus on humans as biological organisms
D. a holistic perspective - Answer-D. Holistic Perspective

The holistic anthropological perspective is expansive and inclusive and involves the
study of human beings as:

A. complex biological and cultural organisms
B. interdependent cultural and social organisms
C. interdependent psychological and biological organisms
D. interconnected psychological and philosophical organisms - Answer-A. Complex
Biological and cultural organisms

3. Which of the following is not a perspective of anthropology?
A. a holistic perspective
B. an ethnocentric perspective
C. a cross-cultural perspective
D. a long-term evolutionary perspective - Answer-b. an ethnocentric perspective

4. One aspect that makes anthropology unique among social sciences is its traditional
focus on:

A. peoples of Caucasian and African descent
B. European peoples
C. non-Western peoples and cultures
D. peasants and farmers - Answer-C. Non Western peoples and cultures

5. What perspective best helps guard most against culture-bound theories?

A. a cross-cultural perspective
B. a cross-cultural and long-term evolutionary perspective
C. a long-term evolutionary and philosophical perspective
D. all perspectives guard against culture-bound theories - Answer-B. Cross-cultural and
longterm evolutionary perspective

What difference did Margaret Lock find between Japanese and North American
perceptions of death?

, A. Japanese are more comfortable harvesting organs from those declared brain dead
B. North Americans are more comfortable harvesting organs from those declared brain
dead
C. Japanese do not use human organ transplants
D. North Americans do not classify people as brain dead - Answer-B. North Americans
are more comfortable harvesting organs from those declared brain dead

Individuals within all four subfields of Anthropology practice:

A. ethnological anthropology
B. applied anthropology
C. development anthropology
D. molecular anthropology - Answer-B. Applied anthropology

Which of the following is not a common practice within applied anthropology?

A. collaboration between anthropologists and community members
B. conducting research together as a team with community members
C. solving specific problems
D. involvement in issues of no practical value - Answer-D. involvement in issues of no
practical value

9. Which of the following is not a characteristic of medical anthropology?

A. brings together theoretical and applied approaches
B. uses approaches from cultural and biological anthropology
C. studies human sickness and health
D. involves anthropologists who are sick - Answer-D. involves anthropologists who are
sick

Another name for Cultural Anthropology is:

A. sociology
B. ethnology
C. sociocultural anthropology
D. ethnography - Answer-A. sociology

11. Which of the following describes how anthropologists study culture:

A. anthropologists study individuals who are more "cultured" than others
B. anthropologists study a society's shared and socially transmitted ideas
C. anthropologists grow microbial organisms
D. anthropologists do not study culture - Answer-B. Anthropologists study a society's
shared and socially transmitted ideas

The detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork is called:

, A. ethnology
B. ethnography
C. forensic anthropology
D. molecular anthropology - Answer-B. Ethnography

Location research is also known as:

A. cultural resource management
B. ethnology
C. fieldwork
D. site research - Answer-C. Fieldwork

Participant observation:

A. is the common term used for the ethnographic method
B. is a common cross-cultural ritual
C. is not used in anthropology
D. is only used in chemistry - Answer-B. is a common cross-cultural ritual

Which of the following best describes ethnology?

A. cross-cultural comparative research
B. detailed description of a particular culture
C. study of customary patterns in human behavior
D. participant observation research - Answer-A. Cross-cultural comparative research

All of the following are approaches that linguistic anthropologists may take except:

A. studying the way languages change over time
B. describing the way that a language is formed
C. analyzing which languages are superior
D. studying the relation between language and culture - Answer-C. Analyzing which
language is superior

All of the following are features of discourse studied by sociolinguists except:

A. physical and psychological setting
B. social rules
C. purpose
D. anatomy - Answer-D. Anatomy

18. Archaeology is the study of:

A. human material remains and environmental data
B. human fossils

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