Anthropology

Question 0

Cultural anthropologists and ethnologists most often use what method of gathering data?

Answer 0

Interviews and participant observation

Question 1

What best illustrates a material cultural trait?

Answer 1

A television set

Question 2

What is the best description of culture?

Answer 2

The system of ideas, values, behaviours and attitudes of a society

Question 3

____________ would be more likely to study governmental structures

Answer 3

Cultural Anthropologists

Question 4

Functional theory is…

Answer 4

The idea that all social institutions are designed and modified to serve the needs to the majority of the population

Question 5

An ethnography is…

Answer 5

A study and description of a cultural group

Question 6

Cultural Evolutionism is…

Answer 6

Criticized for being racist and ethnocentric

Question 7

What evidence suggested that “Lucy” was about three feet tall?

Answer 7

The length of her leg bone

Question 8

Homonization is a term which refers to

Answer 8

The making of human beings

Question 9

Glaciation encouraged homonization by

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Reducing the sizes of tropical forest forcing pre-humans onto the savannahs

Question 10

Anthropologists must view their subject culture as the participants see it and recognize and avoid their own biases. This is called

Answer 10

Reflexivity

Question 11

Anthropologists would generally concern themselves with

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Humans as a species and human cultures

Question 12

Linguistic Anthropologists do not

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Study the shape of the human jaw in order to understand human evolution

Question 13

Ethnicity is

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Your understanding of who you are based on your ancestry

Question 14

“Upright man”

Answer 14

Homo erectus

Question 15

99% of their DNA is identical to humans

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Chimpanzees

Question 16

Marriage where a woman takes more than one husband

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Polyandry

Question 17

Discovered that chimps have many characteristics that were previously thought to be unique to humans

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Goodall

Question 18

Early human that likely used small tools and built shelters

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Homo habilis

Question 19

His discovery of a hominid skull in Africa showed that people did not originate in Asia

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Dart

Question 20

The system that identifies to whom a person is related, who they must show respect to, and who must show respect to them

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Kinship

Question 21

The family to which apes and humans belong

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Primates

Question 22

The most complete skeleton ever found of Australopithecus Afarensis

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Lucy

Question 23

Used techniques of participant observation to gain acceptance into Mountain Gorilla groups

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Fossey

Question 24

Were the first primates to evolve away from the common ancestor

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Orangutans

Question 25

Marriage where a man takes more than one wife

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Polygyny

Question 26

Studied fossilized "tools" in the Olduvai Gorge in Kenya

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Leakeys

Question 27

A behaviour or expectation of all (or almost all) people in a culture

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Cultural Universal

Question 28

A group of people who practice agriculture without irrigation and often move on after the soil becomes less productive

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Horticultural Society

Question 29

No culture is superior to another; all cultures have internal rules and logical within their environment, historical, social, and cultural contexts

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Cultural Relativism

Question 30

Anthropology can help us to understand how gendered groups are oppressed, and anthropologists should help activists create change in their own societies

Answer 30

Feminist Anthropology

Question 31

Anthropologists must consider the impact of their own interactions in their research. It is impossible to be objective, so research in one's own culture is just as valid as research in a different culture

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Postmodernism

Question 32

Each element in a culture functions to serve the people in it. The anthropologists' goal is to discover the practical function of a cultural trait

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Functional Theory

Question 33

Anthropologists try to understand how ideas form in a society by looking at the specific environmental resources available

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Cultural Materialism