ANTHROPOLOGY APPRECIATING HUMAN
DIVERSITY REVISION HANDBOOK 2026
ETHNOGRAPHY AND FIELDWORK METHODS
◉ Who is considered one of the founders of American anthropology?
Answer: Franz Boas
◉ What did Audrey Richards contribute to anthropology?
Answer: She opened pathways for the study of women's and
children's health as well as food and nutrition.
◉ What does 'holism' refer to in anthropology?
Answer: Looking at the whole picture of human life and culture.
◉ How is culture defined in anthropology?
Answer: A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior,
artifacts, and institutions created, learned, shared, and contested by
a group.
◉ What is enculturation?
Answer: The process of learning culture.
, ◉ What are norms in the context of culture?
Answer: Ideas or rules about how people should behave in
particular situations.
◉ What is cultural appropriation?
Answer: The unwanted taking of cultural practices or knowledge
from one group by another, more dominant group.
◉ Who defined culture as a complex whole in 1871?
Answer: Edward Burnett Tylor
◉ What is structural functionalism?
Answer: A conceptual framework positing that each element of
society serves a particular function to maintain equilibrium.
◉ What is the interpretivist approach in anthropology?
Answer: A framework that sees culture primarily as a symbolic
system of deep meaning.
◉ What is 'thick description'?
Answer: A research strategy that combines detailed descriptions of
cultural activity with an analysis of deep cultural meanings.
DIVERSITY REVISION HANDBOOK 2026
ETHNOGRAPHY AND FIELDWORK METHODS
◉ Who is considered one of the founders of American anthropology?
Answer: Franz Boas
◉ What did Audrey Richards contribute to anthropology?
Answer: She opened pathways for the study of women's and
children's health as well as food and nutrition.
◉ What does 'holism' refer to in anthropology?
Answer: Looking at the whole picture of human life and culture.
◉ How is culture defined in anthropology?
Answer: A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior,
artifacts, and institutions created, learned, shared, and contested by
a group.
◉ What is enculturation?
Answer: The process of learning culture.
, ◉ What are norms in the context of culture?
Answer: Ideas or rules about how people should behave in
particular situations.
◉ What is cultural appropriation?
Answer: The unwanted taking of cultural practices or knowledge
from one group by another, more dominant group.
◉ Who defined culture as a complex whole in 1871?
Answer: Edward Burnett Tylor
◉ What is structural functionalism?
Answer: A conceptual framework positing that each element of
society serves a particular function to maintain equilibrium.
◉ What is the interpretivist approach in anthropology?
Answer: A framework that sees culture primarily as a symbolic
system of deep meaning.
◉ What is 'thick description'?
Answer: A research strategy that combines detailed descriptions of
cultural activity with an analysis of deep cultural meanings.
