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Anthropology: Appreciating Human
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Conrad Philip Kottak
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18th Edition
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Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity (18th Edition)
Author: Conrad Philip Kottak
Chapter 1 What Is Anthropology?
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Chapter 2 Culture
Chapter 3 Applying Anthropology
Chapter 4 Doing Archaeology and Biological Anthropology
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Chapter 5 Evolution and Genetics
Chapter 6 Human Variation and Adaptation
Chapter 7 The Primates
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Chapter 8 Early Hominins
Chapter 9 The Genus Homo
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Chapter 10 The Origin and Spread of Modern Humans
Chapter 11 The First Farmers
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Chapter 12 The First Cities and States
Chapter 13 Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 14 Language and Communication
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Chapter 15 Ethnicity and Race
Chapter 16 Making a Living
Chapter 17 Political Systems
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Chapter 18 Gender
Chapter 19 Families, Kinship, and Descent
Chapter 20 Marriage
Chapter 21 Religion
, Chapter 22 Arts, Media, and Sports
Chapter 23 The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality
Chapter 24 Anthropology’s Role in a Globalizing World
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, Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity, 18e (Kottak)
Chapter 1 What is Anthropology?
1) What is anthropology?
A) the art of ethnography
B) the study of long-term physiological adaptation
C) the study of the stages of social evolution
D) the humanistic investigation of myths in nonindustrial societies
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E) the study of humans around the world and through time
Answer: E
Topic: Defining anthropology
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Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
2) A holistic and comparative perspective
A) makes general anthropology superior to sociocultural anthropology.
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B) refers only to the cultural aspects of human diversity that anthropologists study.
C) makes anthropology an interesting field of study, but too broad of one to apply to real
problems people face today.
D) most characterizes anthropology when compared to other disciplines that study humans.
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E) is the hallmark of all social sciences, not just anthropology.
Answer: D
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
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comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
3) As humans organize their lives and adapt to different environments, our abilities to learn,
think symbolically, use language, and employ tools and other products
A) rest on certain features of human biology that make culture itself a biological phenomenon.
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B) have made some human groups more cultured than others.
C) prove that only fully developed adults have the capacity for culture; children lack the capacity
for culture until they mature.
D) rest on certain features of human biology that make culture, which is not itself biological,
possible.
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E) are shared with other animals capable of organized group life—such as baboons, wolves, and
even ants.
Answer: D
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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Copyright 2019 © McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior
written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
Anthropology: Appreciating Human
Diversity
Conrad Philip Kottak
ST
18th Edition
UV
IA
_$
LIB
GE
N?
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity (18th Edition)
Author: Conrad Philip Kottak
Chapter 1 What Is Anthropology?
ST
Chapter 2 Culture
Chapter 3 Applying Anthropology
Chapter 4 Doing Archaeology and Biological Anthropology
UV
Chapter 5 Evolution and Genetics
Chapter 6 Human Variation and Adaptation
Chapter 7 The Primates
IA
Chapter 8 Early Hominins
Chapter 9 The Genus Homo
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Chapter 10 The Origin and Spread of Modern Humans
Chapter 11 The First Farmers
LIB
Chapter 12 The First Cities and States
Chapter 13 Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 14 Language and Communication
GE
Chapter 15 Ethnicity and Race
Chapter 16 Making a Living
Chapter 17 Political Systems
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Chapter 18 Gender
Chapter 19 Families, Kinship, and Descent
Chapter 20 Marriage
Chapter 21 Religion
, Chapter 22 Arts, Media, and Sports
Chapter 23 The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality
Chapter 24 Anthropology’s Role in a Globalizing World
ST
UV
IA
_$
LIB
GE
N?
, Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity, 18e (Kottak)
Chapter 1 What is Anthropology?
1) What is anthropology?
A) the art of ethnography
B) the study of long-term physiological adaptation
C) the study of the stages of social evolution
D) the humanistic investigation of myths in nonindustrial societies
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E) the study of humans around the world and through time
Answer: E
Topic: Defining anthropology
UV
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
2) A holistic and comparative perspective
A) makes general anthropology superior to sociocultural anthropology.
IA
B) refers only to the cultural aspects of human diversity that anthropologists study.
C) makes anthropology an interesting field of study, but too broad of one to apply to real
problems people face today.
D) most characterizes anthropology when compared to other disciplines that study humans.
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E) is the hallmark of all social sciences, not just anthropology.
Answer: D
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
LIB
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
3) As humans organize their lives and adapt to different environments, our abilities to learn,
think symbolically, use language, and employ tools and other products
A) rest on certain features of human biology that make culture itself a biological phenomenon.
GE
B) have made some human groups more cultured than others.
C) prove that only fully developed adults have the capacity for culture; children lack the capacity
for culture until they mature.
D) rest on certain features of human biology that make culture, which is not itself biological,
possible.
N?
E) are shared with other animals capable of organized group life—such as baboons, wolves, and
even ants.
Answer: D
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
1
Copyright 2019 © McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior
written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.
