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The sequencing of mitochondrial DNA to trace changes in human ancestors over time involves
which specialization of anthropology? - Answer✔paleoanthropology
What kind of approach enables an anthropologist to examine the similarities and differences
between societies' gender roles? - Answer✔cross-cultural and comparative
Which of the following directly contributes to climate change and global warming? -
Answer✔increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases created by the burning of fossil fuels
Anthropology developed during an intense period of globalization in the nineteenth century.
What was one of the major characteristics of that period that drove this development? -
Answer✔innovations in transportation technology
Recent anthropological research has focused on the upper segments of society, such as
financial institutions, aid and development agencies, medical laboratories, and doctors. What is
this process called? - Answer✔studying up
Marcus is studying developments in Chinese dialects over time, and how those dialects have
evolved as migration has increased over the last two centuries. What kind of anthropological
lens is Marcus using? - Answer✔historic linguistics
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An anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork on Mormon fundamentalists and their
marriage patterns now wants to compare those patterns to those in the Muslim tradition. What
would this require? - Answer✔conducting ethnological analysis
Cultural anthropologists employ the process of ethnology to: - Answer✔compare cultures
Anthropologists take a comprehensive approach to understanding human beings. They
accomplish this task by - Answer✔using the four-field approach
Applied anthropology is an approach within the discipline that more and more anthropologists
are taking. Identify the correct definition of applied anthropology. - Answer✔Applied
anthropology refers to when anthropologists work outside of academia to address current
world problems.
As a culture, consumer culture contains elements that make purchasing of goods and services
feel normal and natural, such as the values attached to buying gifts on some holidays, or how
certain products serve as symbols of elevated social status. Financial institutions play a role in
this culture by: - Answer✔promoting values of frugality, modesty, and self-denial.
Margaret Mead's fieldwork in Samoa was controversial in part because she examined sexual
freedom, and considered sexual behavior to be rooted in - Answer✔enculturation
What did anthropologist Eric Wolf argue to be an aspect of all human relationships, such as
those between a teacher and a student, or a landlord and tenant, that can lead to
stratification? - Answer✔power dynamics
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) is credited with crafting the first definition of which of the
following central concepts in anthropology? - Answer✔culture
Globalization has increased flows of ideas, goods, and people. Migrant workers in New York City
bring their labor and ideas with them, but anthropologist Robert Smith, in Mexican New York,
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illustrates that migrant laborers in New York also bring - Answer✔community development
back to Mexico
The export of television shows worldwide and the knowledge of other cultures that is
subsequently disseminated to even remote areas of the world are examples of how
globalization can foster - Answer✔cosmopolitanism
The analysis of culture as a symbolic system is part of which anthropological approach? -
Answer✔interpretivist approach
Stone tools enabled our ancestors to butcher meat more quickly and efficiently, thereby
providing greater quantities of protein for the developing brain and influencing the direction of
our physical adaptation. This demonstrates the intimate connection between - Answer✔nature
and nurture
Despite some anthropologists' and activists' fears that globalization would reduce cultural
diversity through homogenization, the outcome of many global encounters has led to a mixing
of elements from other cultures into a community's beliefs and practices. This is called -
Answer✔hybridization
Which of the following processes is intensifying the exchange and diffusion of people, ideas,
and goods worldwide, creating more interaction and engagement among cultures? -
Answer✔globalization
An anthropologist writes an ethnography of coal miners in West Virginia purely from their own
"insider's" point of view. What perspective is the anthropologist using? - Answer✔emic
What did Bronislaw Malinowski specifically encourage fellow anthropologists to do in his
guidelines? - Answer✔take time to learn the local language of the people being studied
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ANTH210 Final Exam Questions And
Answers |Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass.
The sequencing of mitochondrial DNA to trace changes in human ancestors over time involves
which specialization of anthropology? - Answer✔paleoanthropology
What kind of approach enables an anthropologist to examine the similarities and differences
between societies' gender roles? - Answer✔cross-cultural and comparative
Which of the following directly contributes to climate change and global warming? -
Answer✔increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases created by the burning of fossil fuels
Anthropology developed during an intense period of globalization in the nineteenth century.
What was one of the major characteristics of that period that drove this development? -
Answer✔innovations in transportation technology
Recent anthropological research has focused on the upper segments of society, such as
financial institutions, aid and development agencies, medical laboratories, and doctors. What is
this process called? - Answer✔studying up
Marcus is studying developments in Chinese dialects over time, and how those dialects have
evolved as migration has increased over the last two centuries. What kind of anthropological
lens is Marcus using? - Answer✔historic linguistics
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An anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork on Mormon fundamentalists and their
marriage patterns now wants to compare those patterns to those in the Muslim tradition. What
would this require? - Answer✔conducting ethnological analysis
Cultural anthropologists employ the process of ethnology to: - Answer✔compare cultures
Anthropologists take a comprehensive approach to understanding human beings. They
accomplish this task by - Answer✔using the four-field approach
Applied anthropology is an approach within the discipline that more and more anthropologists
are taking. Identify the correct definition of applied anthropology. - Answer✔Applied
anthropology refers to when anthropologists work outside of academia to address current
world problems.
As a culture, consumer culture contains elements that make purchasing of goods and services
feel normal and natural, such as the values attached to buying gifts on some holidays, or how
certain products serve as symbols of elevated social status. Financial institutions play a role in
this culture by: - Answer✔promoting values of frugality, modesty, and self-denial.
Margaret Mead's fieldwork in Samoa was controversial in part because she examined sexual
freedom, and considered sexual behavior to be rooted in - Answer✔enculturation
What did anthropologist Eric Wolf argue to be an aspect of all human relationships, such as
those between a teacher and a student, or a landlord and tenant, that can lead to
stratification? - Answer✔power dynamics
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) is credited with crafting the first definition of which of the
following central concepts in anthropology? - Answer✔culture
Globalization has increased flows of ideas, goods, and people. Migrant workers in New York City
bring their labor and ideas with them, but anthropologist Robert Smith, in Mexican New York,
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illustrates that migrant laborers in New York also bring - Answer✔community development
back to Mexico
The export of television shows worldwide and the knowledge of other cultures that is
subsequently disseminated to even remote areas of the world are examples of how
globalization can foster - Answer✔cosmopolitanism
The analysis of culture as a symbolic system is part of which anthropological approach? -
Answer✔interpretivist approach
Stone tools enabled our ancestors to butcher meat more quickly and efficiently, thereby
providing greater quantities of protein for the developing brain and influencing the direction of
our physical adaptation. This demonstrates the intimate connection between - Answer✔nature
and nurture
Despite some anthropologists' and activists' fears that globalization would reduce cultural
diversity through homogenization, the outcome of many global encounters has led to a mixing
of elements from other cultures into a community's beliefs and practices. This is called -
Answer✔hybridization
Which of the following processes is intensifying the exchange and diffusion of people, ideas,
and goods worldwide, creating more interaction and engagement among cultures? -
Answer✔globalization
An anthropologist writes an ethnography of coal miners in West Virginia purely from their own
"insider's" point of view. What perspective is the anthropologist using? - Answer✔emic
What did Bronislaw Malinowski specifically encourage fellow anthropologists to do in his
guidelines? - Answer✔take time to learn the local language of the people being studied
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