Practice Quiz Chapter 14

. In Japanese business relationships, the meishi, or business card, ________.

. According to Umberto Melotti, ________ is the immigration policy where immigrants and their offspring are always considered outsiders or "guests," even when the offspring are born within the new country.

. The Samoan faamatai and the Western system of democracy are similar in that in both systems, ________.

. Anthropologist Alexander Ervin worked with ________ when participating in collaborative, community-based research.

. Anthropologist Melissa Checker lists ________ core themes in "action" anthropological work.

. French immigration, since the nineteenth century, has been based on a model of ________.

. Biological anthropologists have worked to aid the field of human rights by helping to identify ________ that may be associated with genocide and other human rights violations.

. By its very nature, today's applied anthropology must be ________.

. Anthropologists may work toward meaningful change in diverse areas like war and peace, climate change, natural disaster recovery, human rights, health, and racial equity politics. Anthropologists that do this sort of work might refer to this as ________ anthropology.

. Three of the anthropological principles that are central to successful applied anthropology are ________ , ________ , and ________.

. The British pragmatic view of immigrants is that they be loyal and law-abiding citizens, but there is no expectation for them to "become British." Umberto Melotti, the Italian anthropologist, calls this understanding of immigration ________.

. One of the most anthropologically oriented organizations involved in global human rights is known as ________.

. Two of the first aspects of material culture and ingenuity that altered early humans' relationship to the natural world were ________.

. Edward T. Hall coined the term ________ to describe the relationship between our biology and our technology.

. Anthropologist Richard Reeves-Ellington has studied Japanese business culture. ________ is a cultural information artifact that is almost seen as an extension of self by Japanese businessmen.

. Some Samoans are opposed to Western parliamentary democracy because this system would disrupt the tradition of leadership through chiefly lineages.

. All of the nations in the European Union have strictly separated religion from the state.

. Anthropologists generally agree that all human societies are equally good and life-enhancing for the societies' members.

. Anthropologists generally agree that all human societies and the perspectives they possess are equally valid.

. Racial tensions in the neighbourhood of Rione Monti, Rome are the result of the historically right-wing values held by the long-time residents of the neighbourhood.

. Serge Tcherkézoff believes that Samoans should fully return to the faamatai system because it is less flawed than the Western democratic system.

. Biological anthropologists have contributed significantly to the defence of human rights in the world.

. Studying anthropology can help us understand ourselves and our own culture.

. Applying anthropology has only been successful in the realm of cultural anthropology.

. Government in Samoa is a hybrid of Western parliamentary democracy and the traditional Samoan chief system.

. Umberto Melotti, the Italian anthropologist, points out that in France new immigrants face no pressure to become like the French.

. Because of their position in relation to other cultures, anthropologists are often involved in struggles for human rights.

. Some anthropologists work to seek justice for people that are either disappeared or dead.

. Controlling the use of fire played a relatively small part in early human technological history.

. The term coloniality describes the present legacy of colonialism that exists in the societies of today.

. The work of Edward T. Hall is useful in understanding business dynamics in a cross cultural setting.

. Anthropologists point out that, usually, technical experts providing help in other cultures know far more about the issues they're investigating then do the people that they are advising.

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