ANTHROPOLOGY FINAL GUIDE
WITH 410 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS PROFESSOR
VERIFIED AND GRADED A+
Questions and Answers
What are the four academic fields of anthropology?
linguistics, cultural, biological, archaeology
Who is considered the father of American anthropology?
Franz Boaz
Lifeways refer to the quality of life that people have in a traditional
society.
false
A cultural anthropologists returns from a three-year stay in India, where
she studied arranged marriage. In what form will she publish her
findings?
an ethnography
,Why include sustainability in a textbook about anthropology?
Anthropologists have a long-term understanding of how people survive in
their environments and can contribute to solutions
An infant born to an Italian mother and Polish father in Ghana
will acquire her culture based on experience; ethnicity and culture do not
live in DNA
Once seen as a "melting pot" of assimilation, the United States is now
better understood as a "tossed salad," referring to the mixture of citizens
of diverse ancestry. This is an example of what kind of society?
Heterogeneous
Which of the following is an example of a biological adaptation?
Shivering (automatically opening and closing blood cells) in order to keep
the human body warm
In the "Ethnography?" comic by Rubins/Shah (see your textbook) what is
the part of the ethnographer's work among the mermaids that best shows
praxis?
The ethnographer shares her research, challenging standard viewpoints
and potentially engaging others
Anthropologists seek to understand both the cultural insiders' view of their
world, as well as an outside observer's view. These are called the
__________ and _________ perspectives.
emic; etic
,How do anthropologists understand the concept of race?
Race is a term that anthropologists do not use because it does not
describe any real biological differences among people of our species
Why can't most human features be used to mark "racial" groups?
Most human features change gradually in any population; there are no
sets of genetic markers unique to a "racial" group
Which of the following is NOT an accurate definition of ethnicity?
an inherited unit of genetics
When was the first use of the term "white" recorded in US history?
in 1691, when the Virginia colony legally prohibited marriage between
english settlers and Africans
New research shows that children or grandchildren of trauma survivors
show permanent effects of that trauma in their gene expression. this
scientific field of study is called ________.
epigenetics
decisions people make that are outside the capitalist model may value all
of the following EXCEPT....
wealth
, Which of the following is NOT a mode of exchange?
advertising
Off the coast of Papua New Guinea, ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski
described a system of balanced reciprocity involving the circulation of
gifts among trading partners. What is this system called?
The Kula Ring
Marvin Harris (1985) argues that cows are sacred in Hindu society
because...
the need for cows to provide dairy nutrition and farm labor created a
taboo against killing them for beef.
The idea of "the social lives of things" refers to...
how the value of a commodity changes based on how much a person
desires it
the film Arrival uses the idea of linguistic determinism to move the plot
forward when...
the linguist suddenly sees the world as the aliens do, once she has
learned their language
A symbolic system of communication expressing meaning through voice,
gestures, and writing is the definition of...
language
WITH 410 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS PROFESSOR
VERIFIED AND GRADED A+
Questions and Answers
What are the four academic fields of anthropology?
linguistics, cultural, biological, archaeology
Who is considered the father of American anthropology?
Franz Boaz
Lifeways refer to the quality of life that people have in a traditional
society.
false
A cultural anthropologists returns from a three-year stay in India, where
she studied arranged marriage. In what form will she publish her
findings?
an ethnography
,Why include sustainability in a textbook about anthropology?
Anthropologists have a long-term understanding of how people survive in
their environments and can contribute to solutions
An infant born to an Italian mother and Polish father in Ghana
will acquire her culture based on experience; ethnicity and culture do not
live in DNA
Once seen as a "melting pot" of assimilation, the United States is now
better understood as a "tossed salad," referring to the mixture of citizens
of diverse ancestry. This is an example of what kind of society?
Heterogeneous
Which of the following is an example of a biological adaptation?
Shivering (automatically opening and closing blood cells) in order to keep
the human body warm
In the "Ethnography?" comic by Rubins/Shah (see your textbook) what is
the part of the ethnographer's work among the mermaids that best shows
praxis?
The ethnographer shares her research, challenging standard viewpoints
and potentially engaging others
Anthropologists seek to understand both the cultural insiders' view of their
world, as well as an outside observer's view. These are called the
__________ and _________ perspectives.
emic; etic
,How do anthropologists understand the concept of race?
Race is a term that anthropologists do not use because it does not
describe any real biological differences among people of our species
Why can't most human features be used to mark "racial" groups?
Most human features change gradually in any population; there are no
sets of genetic markers unique to a "racial" group
Which of the following is NOT an accurate definition of ethnicity?
an inherited unit of genetics
When was the first use of the term "white" recorded in US history?
in 1691, when the Virginia colony legally prohibited marriage between
english settlers and Africans
New research shows that children or grandchildren of trauma survivors
show permanent effects of that trauma in their gene expression. this
scientific field of study is called ________.
epigenetics
decisions people make that are outside the capitalist model may value all
of the following EXCEPT....
wealth
, Which of the following is NOT a mode of exchange?
advertising
Off the coast of Papua New Guinea, ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski
described a system of balanced reciprocity involving the circulation of
gifts among trading partners. What is this system called?
The Kula Ring
Marvin Harris (1985) argues that cows are sacred in Hindu society
because...
the need for cows to provide dairy nutrition and farm labor created a
taboo against killing them for beef.
The idea of "the social lives of things" refers to...
how the value of a commodity changes based on how much a person
desires it
the film Arrival uses the idea of linguistic determinism to move the plot
forward when...
the linguist suddenly sees the world as the aliens do, once she has
learned their language
A symbolic system of communication expressing meaning through voice,
gestures, and writing is the definition of...
language
