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Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity
Conrad Phillip Kottak
18th Edition
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,Table of Contents
Part I: The Dimensions of Anthropology
1. What Is Anthropology?
2. Culture
3. Doing Anthropology
Part II: Applying Anthropology
4. Language and Communication
5. Making a Living
6. Political Systems
7. Families, Kinship, and Marriage
8. Gender
9. Religion
Part III: Explaining Human Diversity
10. The Origins and Evolution of Homo
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11. The Middle and Upper Pleistocene and the Evolution of Homo
sapiens
12. The First Farmers
13. The First Cities and States
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Part IV: People in Motion
14. The World System and Colonialism
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15. Global Issues Today: Environment, Inequality, and Change
Part V: Using Anthropology
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16. Anthropology and Its Applications
Appendices
A. Atlas of Human Diversity
B. Glossary
C. References
D. Photo and Art Credits
E. Index
,Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity, 18e (Kottak)
Chapter 1 What is Anthropology?
1) What is anthropology?
A) the art of ethnography
B) the study of long-term physiological adaptation
C) the study of the stages of social evolution
D) the humanistic investigation of myths in nonindustrial societies
E) the study of humans around the world and through time
Answer: E
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
2) A holistic and comparative perspective
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A) makes general anthropology superior to sociocultural anthropology.
B) refers only to the cultural aspects of human diversity that anthropologists study.
C) makes anthropology an interesting field of study, but too broad of one to apply to real
problems people face today.
D) most characterizes anthropology when compared to other disciplines that study humans.
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E) is the hallmark of all social sciences, not just anthropology.
Answer: D
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Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
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Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
3) As humans organize their lives and adapt to different environments, our abilities to learn,
think symbolically, use language, and employ tools and other products
A) rest on certain features of human biology that make culture itself a biological phenomenon.
B) have made some human groups more cultured than others.
C) prove that only fully developed adults have the capacity for culture; children lack the capacity
for culture until they mature.
D) rest on certain features of human biology that make culture, which is not itself biological,
possible.
E) are shared with other animals capable of organized group life—such as baboons, wolves, and
even ants.
Answer: D
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
, 4) Which of the following statements about culture is FALSE?
A) Culture is a key aspect of human adaptability and success.
B) Culture is passed on genetically to future generations.
C) Cultural forces consistently mold and shape human biology and behavior.
D) Culture guides the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to it.
E) Culture is passed on from generation to generation.
Answer: B
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
5) What is the process by which children learn a particular cultural tradition?
A) acculturation
B) ethnology
C) enculturation
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D) ethnography
E) biological adaptation
Answer: C
Topic: Defining anthropology
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Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
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6) This chapter's description of how humans cope with low oxygen pressure in high altitudes
illustrates
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A) human capacities for cultural and biological adaptation, the latter involving both genetic and
physiological adaptations.
B) how biological adaptations are effective only when they are genetic.
C) how human plasticity has decreased ever since we embraced a sedentary lifestyle some
10,000 years ago.
D) how in matters of life or death, biology is ultimately more important than culture.
E) the need for anthropologists to pay more attention to human adaptation in extreme
environments.
Answer: A
Topic: Types of human adaptation
Learning Objective: Explain the significance of the four primary types of human adaptation.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity
Conrad Phillip Kottak
18th Edition
JN
U
R
SE
,Table of Contents
Part I: The Dimensions of Anthropology
1. What Is Anthropology?
2. Culture
3. Doing Anthropology
Part II: Applying Anthropology
4. Language and Communication
5. Making a Living
6. Political Systems
7. Families, Kinship, and Marriage
8. Gender
9. Religion
Part III: Explaining Human Diversity
10. The Origins and Evolution of Homo
JN
11. The Middle and Upper Pleistocene and the Evolution of Homo
sapiens
12. The First Farmers
13. The First Cities and States
U
Part IV: People in Motion
14. The World System and Colonialism
R
15. Global Issues Today: Environment, Inequality, and Change
Part V: Using Anthropology
SE
16. Anthropology and Its Applications
Appendices
A. Atlas of Human Diversity
B. Glossary
C. References
D. Photo and Art Credits
E. Index
,Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity, 18e (Kottak)
Chapter 1 What is Anthropology?
1) What is anthropology?
A) the art of ethnography
B) the study of long-term physiological adaptation
C) the study of the stages of social evolution
D) the humanistic investigation of myths in nonindustrial societies
E) the study of humans around the world and through time
Answer: E
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
2) A holistic and comparative perspective
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A) makes general anthropology superior to sociocultural anthropology.
B) refers only to the cultural aspects of human diversity that anthropologists study.
C) makes anthropology an interesting field of study, but too broad of one to apply to real
problems people face today.
D) most characterizes anthropology when compared to other disciplines that study humans.
U
E) is the hallmark of all social sciences, not just anthropology.
Answer: D
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Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
SE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
3) As humans organize their lives and adapt to different environments, our abilities to learn,
think symbolically, use language, and employ tools and other products
A) rest on certain features of human biology that make culture itself a biological phenomenon.
B) have made some human groups more cultured than others.
C) prove that only fully developed adults have the capacity for culture; children lack the capacity
for culture until they mature.
D) rest on certain features of human biology that make culture, which is not itself biological,
possible.
E) are shared with other animals capable of organized group life—such as baboons, wolves, and
even ants.
Answer: D
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
, 4) Which of the following statements about culture is FALSE?
A) Culture is a key aspect of human adaptability and success.
B) Culture is passed on genetically to future generations.
C) Cultural forces consistently mold and shape human biology and behavior.
D) Culture guides the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to it.
E) Culture is passed on from generation to generation.
Answer: B
Topic: Defining anthropology
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
5) What is the process by which children learn a particular cultural tradition?
A) acculturation
B) ethnology
C) enculturation
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D) ethnography
E) biological adaptation
Answer: C
Topic: Defining anthropology
U
Learning Objective: Explain what is meant by the statement that anthropology is the holistic and
comparative study of humanity.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
R
6) This chapter's description of how humans cope with low oxygen pressure in high altitudes
illustrates
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A) human capacities for cultural and biological adaptation, the latter involving both genetic and
physiological adaptations.
B) how biological adaptations are effective only when they are genetic.
C) how human plasticity has decreased ever since we embraced a sedentary lifestyle some
10,000 years ago.
D) how in matters of life or death, biology is ultimately more important than culture.
E) the need for anthropologists to pay more attention to human adaptation in extreme
environments.
Answer: A
Topic: Types of human adaptation
Learning Objective: Explain the significance of the four primary types of human adaptation.
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
