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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 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 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 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 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 Final Exam Questions with complete solution 2024/2025 ANTH 411 Final Exam George Armelagos - correct answer - The Viral Superhighway - Human health - Environmental disruptions and international travel Paul Farmer - correct answer - Disease is "socially embedded": can be explained by cultural factors—political, economic, religious - Partners in Health: Health care is a human right—much can be done about global inequalities in health John Bodley - correct answe...

ANTH 411 UNH Exam 1 Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 ANTH 411 UNH Exam 1 anthropology - correct answer study of people, humankind, culture culture - correct answer the way of life of a people, the things they do and make, their ideas. Norms, values, symbols, material objects. It is layered, continuously reworked and created, shared, socially constructed. characteristics of culture - correct answer 1. Culture is shared 2. Culture is learned 3. Culture is taken for ...

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 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...