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, Table of Contents
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Part I: INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY.
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1. Anthropology and Human Diversity. jk jk jk




2. Doing Cultural Anthropology.
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3. The Idea of Culture.
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4. Communication.

Part II: FAMILIES IN SOCIETY.
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5. Making a Living. jk jk




6. Economics.

7. Kinship.

8. Marriage, Family, and Domestic Groups.
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Part III: EQUALITIES AND INEQUALITIES.
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9. Gender.

10. Political Organization. jk




11. Stratification.

Part IV: SYMBOLS AND MEANINGS.
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12. Religion.

13. Creative Expression: Anthropology and the Arts.
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Part V: CULTURE CHANGE.
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14. Power, Conquest, and a World System.
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15. Culture Change and the Modern World.
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, Chapter 1: Anthropology and Human Diversity MULT jk jk jk jk jk jk




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1. The critical factor that distinguishes anthropology from other fields of study is:
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a. Its emphasis on rigorous experimentation and analysis of data.
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b. Its exclusive focus on non-Western cultures.
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c. Its use of theories of biological evolution to explain human behavior.
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d. Its interest in describing humankind throughout time and in all parts of the world.
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e. Its focus on the discovery of a single human nature.
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2. One of the most critical goals of cultural anthropology as an academic discipline is to:
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a. Describe, analyze, and explain different cultures. jk jk jk jk jk




b. Increase the level of culture in particular human societies.
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c. Place large numbers of cultural anthropologists in political offices.
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d. Determine the direction of human evolution. jk jk jk jk jk




e. Preserve world heritage for future generations.
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3. To say that anthropology is holistic means that anthropologists are particularly interested in:
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a. Objects and acts regarded as holy by various peoples.
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b. The whole personality of any particular individual.
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c. The integration of biological, sociocultural, and environmental factors in explaining human b
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ehavior.

d. Studying every culture in the world. jk jk jk jk jk




e. The efforts to find holes in particular theories.
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, 4. Which of the following correctly identifies the sub-disciplines of anthropology?
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a. Archaeology, Anthropometry, Cultural Anthropology, Paleontology, and Cultural Relativity.
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b. Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Cognitive Anthropology, Ethno-history, and Linguistics.
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c. Archaeology, Ethno- jk



history, Anthropometry, Structural Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology.
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d. Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Applied Anthropology and
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Linguistics.

e. Archaeology, Phonology, Medical Anthropology, Development Studies, and Cultural
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Anthropology.

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5. Anthropologists say that human adaptation is biocultural. Which of the following best represents what is
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meant by this statement?
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a. Human adaptation is both biological and cultural, and anthropologists cannot distinguish between t
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he meanings of these concepts.
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b. Human adaptation involves both biological and cultural dimensions and each influences the other.
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c. Human adaptation is unique among all animals because it is based exclusively on physiological a
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daptations.

d. Human adaptation is the same as that of all animal because culture plays a role in the adaptation of
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all forms of life.
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e. Human adaptation is based exclusively on culture. Biology is subsumed within the cultural d
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imension and does not exert an independent influence on humans.
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6. Which of the following studies how languages are related to each other?
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d. Paleo-linguistics

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