Anthro Umich Chivens 101 Exam 1
Questions With Correct Marking
Scheme
/. ethnocentrism - Answer-✅judging other cultures by the standards of another culture.
/.Cultural Relativism - Answer-✅behavior in one culture should be judged by standards
of that culture
/.Methological Cultural Relativism - Answer-✅using cultural relativism as a technique for
bracketing ones own preconceptions in order to learn and describe unfamiliar worlds.
/.Familiarizing - Answer-✅making the strange familiar
/.Defamiliarizing - Answer-✅making the familiar strange
/.Biological Anthropology - Answer-✅uses taphonomy (the study of what happens to
organic remains after death to understand the effects of the desert on human bodies
/.Sociocultural Anthropology - Answer-✅the study of human societies in a cross-cultural
perspective
/.Linguistic Anthropology - Answer-✅the study of language and linguistic diversity in
time, space, and society
/.Anthropological Archaeology - Answer-✅the study of human behavior through material
remains of human activities
/.Enculturation - Answer-✅the process of learning culture
/.contested - Answer-✅agency (ability to do something) is crucial for culture to work
/.changing - Answer-✅symbols articulate with different meanings in flexible ways that
are fought over and changed over time
/.integrated - Answer-✅parts of cultural life that are interconnected
- religious beliefs, family structure and concepts of work and success
- a change in one part produces a change in others
- all linked together
, /.diffusion - Answer-✅borrowing of traits between cultures
/.acculturation - Answer-✅The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, between
groups in firsthand contact.
/.independent invention - Answer-✅the independent development of a cultural features
in different societies
/.Cultural domination - Answer-✅westernization, globalization, loss of local culture
/.Assimilation - Answer-✅the process of absorbing one cultural group into another
/.contestation - Answer-✅values and meanings of social actions are disputed rather
than merely accepted
/.Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - Answer-✅the idea that different languages create different
ways of thinking
/.cultural transmission - Answer-✅the way people come to learn the values, beliefs, and
social norms of their culture
/.Productivity - Answer-✅using rules of language to produce entirely new yet
comprehensible statements.
/.call systems - Answer-✅communication systems of nonhuman primates
/.Displacement - Answer-✅the ability to speak of or symbolize things or events that are
not present.
/.Kinesics - Answer-✅body language as a form of communication
/.Phonemes (minimal pairs) - Answer-✅Words that resemble each other in all but one
phonetic sound.
/.lexicon/focal vocabulary - Answer-✅Language that emerges to describe particular
domains of experience. ex: what the heck
/.lexicon - Answer-✅list of morphemes (words) in a language and its meanings.
/.language and power (style shifts) - Answer-✅varying your speech patterns and
vocabulary AAVE vs School English.
Questions With Correct Marking
Scheme
/. ethnocentrism - Answer-✅judging other cultures by the standards of another culture.
/.Cultural Relativism - Answer-✅behavior in one culture should be judged by standards
of that culture
/.Methological Cultural Relativism - Answer-✅using cultural relativism as a technique for
bracketing ones own preconceptions in order to learn and describe unfamiliar worlds.
/.Familiarizing - Answer-✅making the strange familiar
/.Defamiliarizing - Answer-✅making the familiar strange
/.Biological Anthropology - Answer-✅uses taphonomy (the study of what happens to
organic remains after death to understand the effects of the desert on human bodies
/.Sociocultural Anthropology - Answer-✅the study of human societies in a cross-cultural
perspective
/.Linguistic Anthropology - Answer-✅the study of language and linguistic diversity in
time, space, and society
/.Anthropological Archaeology - Answer-✅the study of human behavior through material
remains of human activities
/.Enculturation - Answer-✅the process of learning culture
/.contested - Answer-✅agency (ability to do something) is crucial for culture to work
/.changing - Answer-✅symbols articulate with different meanings in flexible ways that
are fought over and changed over time
/.integrated - Answer-✅parts of cultural life that are interconnected
- religious beliefs, family structure and concepts of work and success
- a change in one part produces a change in others
- all linked together
, /.diffusion - Answer-✅borrowing of traits between cultures
/.acculturation - Answer-✅The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, between
groups in firsthand contact.
/.independent invention - Answer-✅the independent development of a cultural features
in different societies
/.Cultural domination - Answer-✅westernization, globalization, loss of local culture
/.Assimilation - Answer-✅the process of absorbing one cultural group into another
/.contestation - Answer-✅values and meanings of social actions are disputed rather
than merely accepted
/.Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - Answer-✅the idea that different languages create different
ways of thinking
/.cultural transmission - Answer-✅the way people come to learn the values, beliefs, and
social norms of their culture
/.Productivity - Answer-✅using rules of language to produce entirely new yet
comprehensible statements.
/.call systems - Answer-✅communication systems of nonhuman primates
/.Displacement - Answer-✅the ability to speak of or symbolize things or events that are
not present.
/.Kinesics - Answer-✅body language as a form of communication
/.Phonemes (minimal pairs) - Answer-✅Words that resemble each other in all but one
phonetic sound.
/.lexicon/focal vocabulary - Answer-✅Language that emerges to describe particular
domains of experience. ex: what the heck
/.lexicon - Answer-✅list of morphemes (words) in a language and its meanings.
/.language and power (style shifts) - Answer-✅varying your speech patterns and
vocabulary AAVE vs School English.
