Anth 411 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Anth 411 Final Exam Question and answers 100% correct 2024/2025 Anth 411 Final Exam Culture - correct answer A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people. Ethnocentrism - correct answer One's own culture represents the natural way, or the best way, to do something. Cultural Relativism - correct answer All cultural systems are inherently equal in value. Each cultural item must be u...

Anth 411 UNH Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025 Anth 411 UNH Anthropology - correct answer the holistic, biocultural and comparative study of humanity 4 fields - correct answer (Socio) Cultural, archaeological, biological and lingustic Ethnography - correct answer A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork. Ethnology - correct answer Based on cross cultural comparison Franz Boas - correct answer Father of American Anthropol...

Anth 411 Exam 3 Question and answers rated A+ 2024/2025 Anth 411 Exam 3 Identity - correct answer Define yourself by choice or ascription (age, ethnic, professional, religious, etc.) Situational Negotiation of Identity - correct answer When one of your identities precedes the other, depending on the situation Intersectionality - correct answer Interconnected nature of social categorizations (race,class, gender) as they apply to an individual or group Status - correct answer ...

ANTH 411 Exam 3 Question and answers rated A+ 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Exam 3 Identity - correct answer - Multiple and complex ways in which people come to define themselves - Either by choice or by ascription Situational negotiation of identity - correct answer - Depending on the context, one of your identities will take precendent over the others Intersectionality - correct answer - Interconnected nature of social categorizations (race, class, gender) as they apply to an individual...

Anth 411 Exam 2 Question and answers 100% correct 2024/2025 Anth 411 Exam 2 Social Inequality - correct answer Ways people are differently ranked or valued. Social Stratification - correct answer Arranges groups of people into layers of superiority/inferiority and inequality. Ascribed Status - correct answer Social position inherited, given at birth, and passed down from generation to generation. Achieved Status - correct answer Social position established and changeable du...

ANTH 411 test 3 Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 ANTH 411 test 3 identity - correct answer - multiple/complex ways people define themselves - can be by choice or birth situational negotiation of identity - correct answer depending on context, 1 of your identities will take precedence over others (ex: job interview) intersectionality - correct answer how social identities (gender, race, ethnicity, etc.) overlap status - correct answer relative social position wi...

Anth 411 UNH Exam 2 Spring Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025 Anth 411 UNH Exam 2 Spring language - correct answer our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning Animal/human communication - correct answer probably only evolved with respect to humans and a small numbers of species (dogs, cots, cattle) been subject to intense artificial selection difficult to study - hard to know what is being communicated from the animals side ...

ANTH 411 Exam 2 Questions with complete solution 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Exam 2 Social Inequality - correct answer Ways people are differently ranked or valued Social Stratification - correct answer Arranged groups of people into layers of superiority/inferiority and inequality Ascribed Status - correct answer Given at birth Achieved Status - correct answer Something you earn/achieve through your own actions Race - correct answer A flawed system of classification, created an...

ANTH 411 Exam 1 Questions with complete solution 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Exam 1 Which of the following is a characteristic of anthropology? - correct answer It is concerned with both human biology and culture and it is concerned with human variation, evolution, and adaptation. Is Anthropology an old field? - correct answer Anthropology as an academic discipline is comparatively young. Its roots go back to the intellectual Enlightenment of the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and Nor...

ANTH 411 Key Concepts Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Key Concepts Anthropology - 4 Field Approach - correct answer •Biological or Physical - human origins, fossils •Archaeology - material culture remains •Linguistic - language, communication •Cultural - patterns shared by members of a social group Culture - correct answer The way of life of a people, continuously reworked, shared Ethnocentrism - correct answer •One's own culture represents...