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What is Anthropology?

Multiple Choice Quiz


Please answer all questions

Ethnology:
provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture
A)
reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behaviors
B)
C)
D)
E)

examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of other anthropological


studies
is a systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims, through experiment,
observation, and deduction, to produce reliable explanations of phenomena
refers to the application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods
to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems

Biological anthropology:
is related to zoology
A)
studies bones
B)
studies monkeys
C)
considers the environment
D)

all of the above


E)
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The Kottak text suggests that there are proportionally more black football and basketball
players in the U.S. and proportionally more white tennis, golf, and hockey players because of
all the reasons, except:
differential access to equipment and facilities
A)
cultural traditions of excellence in those sports
B)
race-based physical differences
C)
different patterns of play among children
D)
traditional career opportunities
E)

Which is not an example of applied anthropology?


forensics
A)
medical anthropology
B)
development anthropology
C)
sociolinguisitcs
D)
Cultural Resource Management
E)

Development anthropologists can help:


development projects avoid embarrassing cultural gaffes
A)
to inform project developers of important cultural norms
B)
to communicate development project goals to people
C)
to understand the human dimension of environmental degradation
D)
all of the above
E)
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Anthropology has strong links to all of following academic fields, except:


history
A)
zoology
B)
economics
C)
physics
D)
sociology
E)

Intelligence tests:
are accurate measurements of intelligence
A)
are culturally un-biased
B)

favor bi-lingual students


C)
demonstrate genetically based racial differences in intelligence
D)
reflect the experience of the people who write them
E)
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Anthropology is traditionally composed of _______ subfields.


One
A)
Two
B)
Three
C)
Four
D)
Five
E)

When the text says that anthropology is holistic, it means that:


anthropology studies all living examples of human culture
A)
anthropology studies all cultures
B)
anthropology studies all means of human production
C)
anthropology studies all human languages
D)

all of the above


E)
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0 A biological anthropologist might be interested in:
studying an orangutan
A)
studying human D.N.A.
B)
determining the age and sex of a murder victim
C)
determining why some humans have darker skin than others
D)
all of the above
E)
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Archaeological anthropologists traditionally study all of the following, except:


trash
A)
fragments of pottery
B)
plant remains
C)
human tissue
D)
stone tools
E)

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2 Anthropology is not:

a field of science
A)
a field of the humanities
B)
a field of social science
C)
a field with a narrow set of research questions
D)
related to sociology
E)
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3 Margaret Mead:
studied physical anthropology
A)
worked in the Trobriand Islands
B)
was an advisor of Franz Boas
C)
often appeared on The Tonight Show
D)
was a psychologist
E)
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4 Psychological anthropology:
studies the change in psychology over time
A)
relates human psychology to social and cultural variation
B)

focuses on the "norms" in every society


C)
was developed during the early years of anthropology
D)
all of the above
E)
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5 Traditionally, anthropologists would be least interested in:
cultural change over time
A)
Third World subsistence strategies
B)
art consumption by the elite in modern societies
C)
diversity among cultures
D)
the link between nature and nurture
E)
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6 Linguistic anthropologists study:
language in a social context
A)
comparisons between language
B)
universal features of language
C)
ancient languages
D)

all of the above


E)

True/False Quiz
Please answer all questions

Four-field anthropology developed in Europe.


True
A)
False
B)

A developmental anthropologist is interested in childhood growth.


True
A)
False
B)

Franz Boas was in favor of treating cultures as isolated phenomena.


True
A)
False
B)

Anthropology retains connections to many other different academic fields.

True
A)
False
B)
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Anthropology is both a science and a humanity.


True
A)
False
B)

Key Terms
anthropology

The study of the human species and its immediate ancestors.

applied anthropology

The application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and


methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social
problems.

archaeological
The study of human behavior and cultural patterns and processes
anthropology (prehistoric through the culture's material remains.
archaeology)

biological anthropology

The study of human biological variation in time and space; includes


evolution, genetics, growth and development, and primatology.

cultural anthropology

The study of human society and culture; describes, analyzes,


interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and

differences.

culture

Distinctly human; transmitted through learning; traditions and


customs that govern behavior and beliefs.

ethnography

Field work in a particular culture.

ethnology

Cross-cultural comparison; the comparative study of ethnographic


data, of society, and of culture.

food production

Cultivation of plants and domestication (stockbreeding) of animals;


first developed in the Middle East 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

general anthropology

The field of anthropology as a whole, consisting of cultural,


archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology.

holistic

Interested in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and


future; biology, society, language, and culture.

linguistic anthropology

The descriptive, comparative, and historical study of language and


of linguistic similarities and differences in time, space, and society.

physical anthropology

See biological anthropology.

science

A systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims, through


experiment, observation, and deduction, to produce reliable
explanations of phenomena, with reference to the material and
physical world.

sociolinguistics

Study of relationships between social and linguistic variation; study


of language (performance) in its social context.

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