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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 Exam 1 Question and answers rated A+ 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Exam 1 Anthropology - correct answer the study of human beings, their biology, their prehistory and histories, and their changing languages, cultures, and social institutions Culture - correct answer the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next Characteristics of Culture - correct answer way of life, symbols, layered, co...

Anth 411 Exam 2 Question and answers correctly solved 2024/2025 Anth 411 Exam 2 According to Basso, what is the main reason or explanation for why the Western Apache tend to remain silent in certain situations? - correct answer They use silence as a way of dealing with ambiguity or uncertainty in social settings Which of the following is NOT an example of a particular social situation where the Western Apache would rely on silence as a form of communication? - correct answer All of...

ANTH 411 Exam 2 Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Exam 2 medical anthropology - correct answer rests on the belief that medicine and illness are also impacted by culture applied anthropology - correct answer The use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a specific client. critical medical anthropology - correct answer an approach to the study of health and illness that analyzes the impact of inequality and stratific...

ANTH 411 EXAM 1 Questions with complete solution 2024/2025 ANTH 411 EXAM 1 What is anthropology? - correct answer study of human beings What is culture? - correct answer system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, and shared by a group of people characteristics of culture - correct answer layered, shared, socially constructed Enculturation - correct answer the process of learning culture Holism - correct answ...

ANTH 411 Exam Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Exam #3 True/False: It is important to study subcultures within cultures because you can learn more specific information about a group of people with common interests, occupations, statuses, roles, and/or identities. - correct answer True Who defined culture as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society...

Anth 411 Exam 2 Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025 Anth 411 Exam 2 Language - correct answer Key system of symbols, organized by certain rules, to convey information Animal/human communication - correct answer Similar communication tactics between animals and humans Unique characteristics of human language - correct answer Every culture has a different way of using their human language. Words like key in english is different from ki in Japanese and qui in French ...

ANTH 411 Exam 3 Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Exam 3 Identity - correct answer Ways in which people come to define themselves. Either by choice or ascription. What makes up identity? - correct answer Age, ethnicity, nationality, profession, vocation, religion, politics, gender, sexuality, body, and relationships. Situational negotiation of identity - correct answer One of your identities will take precedent over the other depending on the context Inter...

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...