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CHAPTER 26: Practicing and Applying Anthropology
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Multiple Choice Questions
1. Anthropologists who call themselves applied or practicing anthropologists are not usually employed in
which of the following settings?
A) Universities
B) Charitable foundations
C) Public interest law firms
D) Profit-seeking corporations
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 26.1 Discuss the ethical code of applied anthropology and discuss the ethical issues
faced by practicing anthropologists.
Topic: Introduction
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. According to the code of ethics adopted by the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1948,
__________.
A) Anthropologists should not do research on applied questions unless specifically asked to do so by the
people affected
B) The first responsibility of the anthropologist in the field is to his sponsors, second to himself or herself,
and third to the people being studied
C) There is no need to include the target community in planning a study
D) Anthropologists should do no harm to a target community
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 26.1 Discuss the ethical code of applied anthropology and discuss the ethical issues
faced by practicing anthropologists.
Topic: Ethics of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Difficult
3. Which of these is a risk of water projects, as identified by anthropologist Michael Cernea?
A) Overpopulation
B) Landlessness
C) Mortality
D) Infrastructure collapse
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 26.1 Discuss the ethical code of applied anthropology and discuss the ethical issues
faced by practicing anthropologists.
Topic: Ethics of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
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,4. What does the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 do?
A) Protects the right of Native American cultures to practice their traditional burial ceremonies, including
burials, cremations, and defleshing of bones
B) Prohibits anyone unaffiliated with a Native American culture from burying their dead in a tribal
cemetery
C) Makes it a felony to collect, own, or transfer human remains of known affinity to any Native American
group, without approval of that group
D) Allows members of Native American groups to exhume human remains and rebury them in their
ancestral lands
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 26.1 Discuss the ethical code of applied anthropology and discuss the ethical issues
faced by practicing anthropologists.
Topic: Ethics of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Difficult
5. Which of the following was one of the strategies used by Gerald Murray's successful reforestation
project in Haiti?
A) Providing tree species that could be interspersed with other crops
B) Giving farmers seedlings for big, slow-to-mature tree species
C) Having farmers plant seedlings in a large communal lot
D) Telling farmers that the government owned the trees
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 26.2 Discuss the need to evaluate the effects of planned change, and identify
examples of difficulties in its implementation.
Topic: Evaluating the Effects of Planned Change
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Difficult
6. Which groups that seem to be the key to effective development are increasingly seeking the help of
applied anthropologists?
A) Government organizations
B) Nongovernment organizations
C) Indigenous grassroots movements
D) Private companies
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 26.2 Discuss the need to evaluate the effects of planned change, and identify
examples of difficulties in its implementation.
Topic: Evaluating the Effects of Planned Change
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
7. What was one cultural barrier found in one study about lowering carbon emissions in Chicago
communities?
A) People knew that public transport was better for the environment, but felt it was too expensive.
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,B) People did not want to put clothes outside to dry, because it was seen as a marker of low status.
C) People were unaware of what steps they could take to reduce carbon emissions.
D) People understood how to reduce carbon emissions, but did not care to do so.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
8. Recovering and recording the archaeological record before programs of planned change disturb or
destroy it is called __________.
A) Cultural repository excavation (CRE)
B) Archaeological excavation management (AEM)
C) Archaeological resource management (ARM)
D) Cultural resource management (CRM)
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
9. CRM archaeologists use a(n) __________ to determine how to protect or salvage as much of the
archaeological record as possible before a major building project.
A) Improvement scheme
B) Mitigation plan
C) Salvage arrangement
D) Alleviation program
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
10. Which Native American community has initiated a program to train and employ tribal members in
cultural resource management?
A) Pima
B) Hopi
C) Zuni
D) Comanche
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
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, business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
11. Which field of anthropology is devoted to solving crimes, helping to locate mass graves, and
identifying victims of war and state-sponsored brutality?
A) Forensic anthropology
B) Archaeology
C) Biological anthropology
D) Ethnology
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
12. Which of the following applied anthropologists applied cultural anthropology to a forensic
investigation involving several elder Bannock-Shoshoni women?
A) Clyde Snow
B) Wayne Warry
C) Kathy Reichs
D) Barbara Joans
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
13. Anthropologists are most often involved in __________, rather than __________.
A) Constructing policy; gathering information
B) Initiating action; gathering information
C) Gathering information; constructing policy
D) Initiating action; constructing policy
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Introduction
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
14. Anthropologists have usually studied peoples who are __________.
A) Dominant
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This change ensures all chapters are included in the test bank.
Complete Chapters Included ✅
CHAPTER 26: Practicing and Applying Anthropology
Chapter 1 to 26 ✅
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Anthropologists who call themselves applied or practicing anthropologists are not usually employed in
which of the following settings?
A) Universities
B) Charitable foundations
C) Public interest law firms
D) Profit-seeking corporations
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 26.1 Discuss the ethical code of applied anthropology and discuss the ethical issues
faced by practicing anthropologists.
Topic: Introduction
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. According to the code of ethics adopted by the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1948,
__________.
A) Anthropologists should not do research on applied questions unless specifically asked to do so by the
people affected
B) The first responsibility of the anthropologist in the field is to his sponsors, second to himself or herself,
and third to the people being studied
C) There is no need to include the target community in planning a study
D) Anthropologists should do no harm to a target community
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 26.1 Discuss the ethical code of applied anthropology and discuss the ethical issues
faced by practicing anthropologists.
Topic: Ethics of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Difficult
3. Which of these is a risk of water projects, as identified by anthropologist Michael Cernea?
A) Overpopulation
B) Landlessness
C) Mortality
D) Infrastructure collapse
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 26.1 Discuss the ethical code of applied anthropology and discuss the ethical issues
faced by practicing anthropologists.
Topic: Ethics of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
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,4. What does the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 do?
A) Protects the right of Native American cultures to practice their traditional burial ceremonies, including
burials, cremations, and defleshing of bones
B) Prohibits anyone unaffiliated with a Native American culture from burying their dead in a tribal
cemetery
C) Makes it a felony to collect, own, or transfer human remains of known affinity to any Native American
group, without approval of that group
D) Allows members of Native American groups to exhume human remains and rebury them in their
ancestral lands
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 26.1 Discuss the ethical code of applied anthropology and discuss the ethical issues
faced by practicing anthropologists.
Topic: Ethics of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Difficult
5. Which of the following was one of the strategies used by Gerald Murray's successful reforestation
project in Haiti?
A) Providing tree species that could be interspersed with other crops
B) Giving farmers seedlings for big, slow-to-mature tree species
C) Having farmers plant seedlings in a large communal lot
D) Telling farmers that the government owned the trees
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 26.2 Discuss the need to evaluate the effects of planned change, and identify
examples of difficulties in its implementation.
Topic: Evaluating the Effects of Planned Change
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Difficult
6. Which groups that seem to be the key to effective development are increasingly seeking the help of
applied anthropologists?
A) Government organizations
B) Nongovernment organizations
C) Indigenous grassroots movements
D) Private companies
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 26.2 Discuss the need to evaluate the effects of planned change, and identify
examples of difficulties in its implementation.
Topic: Evaluating the Effects of Planned Change
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
7. What was one cultural barrier found in one study about lowering carbon emissions in Chicago
communities?
A) People knew that public transport was better for the environment, but felt it was too expensive.
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,B) People did not want to put clothes outside to dry, because it was seen as a marker of low status.
C) People were unaware of what steps they could take to reduce carbon emissions.
D) People understood how to reduce carbon emissions, but did not care to do so.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
8. Recovering and recording the archaeological record before programs of planned change disturb or
destroy it is called __________.
A) Cultural repository excavation (CRE)
B) Archaeological excavation management (AEM)
C) Archaeological resource management (ARM)
D) Cultural resource management (CRM)
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
9. CRM archaeologists use a(n) __________ to determine how to protect or salvage as much of the
archaeological record as possible before a major building project.
A) Improvement scheme
B) Mitigation plan
C) Salvage arrangement
D) Alleviation program
Answer: B
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
10. Which Native American community has initiated a program to train and employ tribal members in
cultural resource management?
A) Pima
B) Hopi
C) Zuni
D) Comanche
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
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, business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
11. Which field of anthropology is devoted to solving crimes, helping to locate mass graves, and
identifying victims of war and state-sponsored brutality?
A) Forensic anthropology
B) Archaeology
C) Biological anthropology
D) Ethnology
Answer: A
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
12. Which of the following applied anthropologists applied cultural anthropology to a forensic
investigation involving several elder Bannock-Shoshoni women?
A) Clyde Snow
B) Wayne Warry
C) Kathy Reichs
D) Barbara Joans
Answer: D
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Types of Applied Anthropology
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
13. Anthropologists are most often involved in __________, rather than __________.
A) Constructing policy; gathering information
B) Initiating action; gathering information
C) Gathering information; constructing policy
D) Initiating action; constructing policy
Answer: C
Learning Objective: 26.3 Describe the fields of environmental anthropology, forensic anthropology,
business anthropology, cultural resource management, and museum anthropology.
Topic: Introduction
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Difficulty Level: Moderate
14. Anthropologists have usually studied peoples who are __________.
A) Dominant
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