Chapter 1

Question 1

Anthropology

Answer 1

The study of human beings, their biology, histories, and their changing languages, cultures, and social institutions

Question 2

Industrialization

Answer 2

The economic process of shifting from an agricultural economy to a factory based economy

Question 3

Evolution

Answer 3

The adaptive changes organisms make across generations

Question 4

Empirical

Answer 4

Verifiable through observation rather than through logic or theory

Question 5

Colonialism

Answer 5

Historical practice of more powerful countries claiming possession of less powerful ones

Question 6

Othering

Answer 6

Defining colonized people as different from and subordinate to Europeans in terms of their social, moral, and physical norms

Question 7

Savage Paradigm

Answer 7

Paradigm that held that is was important to observe indigenous ways of life, interview elders, and assemble collections of objects made and used by indigenous peoples

Question 8

Cultural anthropology

Answer 8

The study of social lives and communities

Question 9

Archaeology

Answer 9

The study of past cultures by excavating sites where people have lived, worked, farmed, or conducted some other form of activity

Question 10

Biological Anthropology

Answer 10

Study of biological aspects of past and present along with other non human closest relatives (primates)

Question 11

Linguistic Anthropology

Answer 11

The study of how people communicate with one another through languages and how language use shapes group membership and identity

Question 12

Ethnocentrism

Answer 12

The assumption that ones way is correct while simply dismissing others assumptions as wrong or ignorant

Question 13

Cultural Relativism

Answer 13

The moral and intellectual principle that one should seek to understand cultures on their own terms and withhold judgment about seemingly strange or exotic beliefs and practices

Question 14

Diversity

Answer 14

The sheer variety of ways being human around the world

Question 15

Holism

Answer 15

Efforts to synthesize distinct approaches and findings into single comprehension interpretations

Question 16

Scientific method

Answer 16

the standard methodology of science that begins from observable facts, generates hypotheses from these facts, then tests these hypotheses

Question 17

Theory

Answer 17

Explanation of something (tested and repeatedly supported hypothesis)

Question 18

Quantitative method

Answer 18

Count,measuring

Question 19

Qualitative Method

Answer 19

In depth detailed description

Question 20

Ethnographic method

Answer 20

Prolonged and intensive observation of and participation in the life of a community

Question 21

Comparative method

Answer 21

Derive insights with careful comparisons of tow or more cultures or societies

Question 22

Applied anthropology

Answer 22

Anthropological research commissioned to serve an organizations needs and those of practicing anthropology

Question 23

Practicing Anthology

Answer 23

Anthropologists performs research and involved in design, implementation and management of some organization, process and product

Question 24

Ethics

Answer 24

Moral questions of right of wrong and standard of appropriate behavior