Practice Quiz Chapter 01

. In anthropology, holism ________.

. The anthropological perspective is considered "evolutionary" because ________.

. Franz Boas is known for ________.

. Anthropological fieldwork ________.

. An anthropologist who believes that human beings are born with no fixed essence would be classified as a(n) ________.

. ________ are attributes that make human beings distinct in the way they learn and interact with the world.

. ________ is NOT one of the Potts's three elements that made human culture possible.

. Transmission and reiteration are ________.

. In the culture/cultures debate, ________.

. Most anthropologists view human beings as ________.

. ________ sets anthropology as a discipline apart from sociology.

. Anthropologists reject the use of the terms ________.

. ________ is a recorded and/or written description of a particular group.

. Humans often make sense of their world through the use of ________.

. Even within a single cultural tradition, the meaning of an object may differ depending on ________.

. In early theories that gave rise to anthropology, what is meant by dualism?

. Why do some biological anthropologists want to study nonhuman primates?

. If many people within a particular culture seem ethnocentric an anthropologist might think that it was ________.

. What do anthropologists mean by human agency?

. Which statement best reflects how anthropologists view the role of history in theory?

. In addition to the traditional four subfields of anthropology which of the following two focuses might often be associated with more than one of the four subfields?

. Will which of the four subfields of anthropology has the most concern with material culture and technology?

. Some cultural anthropologists use ethnology as a research method and perspective. What does an ethnologist do with cultural data?

. How is paleoanthropology different than paleontology?

. One practical application of linguistic anthropology is to ___________ .

. Which of the following best characterizes the idea of a cultural pattern?

. Thinking about why and how one thinks about specific things is known as reciprocity.

. Humans and apes share the ability to use symbolic coding, that is, using symbols to represent elements of reality.

. In extreme cases, cultural relativism can result in discrimination to the point of genocide.

. The concept of co-evolution belongs to the holistic perspective on human nature.

. Cultural anthropology is also known as social anthropology.

. Informants, those who provide anthropologists with insights into their way of life, can also be known as teachers, consultants, and friends.

. Primates have not shown any signs of possessing culture.

. The elements that make up "traditional culture" are adaptable and constantly changing.

. Paleoanthropology is a discipline of archeology.

. The comparative aspect of anthropology seeks to compare different human societies in order to rank them.

. Sociology and anthropology share in common many theoretical and philosophical perspectives.

. With mass education, ethnocentrism is no longer considered a problem in Western countries.

. Cultural relativism means accepting every human belief and behaviour in every other society that one may encounter.

. Cultural evolution works through natural selection as Darwinian evolution does.

. Medical anthropologists are concerned with both cultural and biological aspects of disease.

. Edward B. Tylor came up with one of the earliest useful definitions of culture in 1871.

. Material culture exists outside of the realm of symbols in all cultures.

. Some early anthropological theorists believe that one had to ignore history as a factor in understanding the workings of culture and society.

. The concept of culture became quite contested and debated in anthropology by the 1990s.

. Every day, habitual, social behaviour is not really part of culture.

. A symbol will always convey the same meaning within a particular culture.

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