Cultural Anthropolgy

A holistic comparative perspective

Cultural anthropologists carry out their fieldwork in

Ethnography is the

How are the four subfields of U.S. anthropology unified?

The differences between sociology and cultural anthropology are becoming increasingly more distinct. (T/F)

What do anthropologists mean when they say culture is shared?

The human capacity for culture has evolutionary basis that extends back at least 2.6 million years. What does this date correspond to?

People have to eat, but culture teaches us what, when, and how to do so. What is this an example of?

What does linguistic anthropology include?

In anthropology, cultural relativism is not a moral position but a methodological one. What does it state?

All of the following are characteristic field techniques of the ethnographer EXCPET

An agreement to take part in the research after having the nature, procedures, and possible impacts of the research explained is known as

Applied anthropology is

Emile Durkheim's focus on social facts illustrated what assumption shared by many anthropologists?

Which of the following terms refers to the theoretical paradigm that holds that customs (social practices) function to preserve the social structure?

The chapter's survey of the major theoretical prospectives that have characterized anthropology highlights all of the following except

The research technique thar uses diagrams and symbols to record kin connections is called

People are usually willing to change just enough to maintain, or slightly improve on, what they already have. For this reason, development projects are most likely to succeed when they avoid the fallacy of

Development anthropology is the branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of, what type of development?

Ethnographic study of the workplace

A key feature of language that helps explain anthropologists' continued interest in studying it is that it

A sociolinguist studies

An anthropological understanding of ethnicity and race requires exploring how people and institutions define, negotiate, and even challenge their identities in society. One way anthropologists—and social scientists in general—do this is by studying status, which refers to

In this chapter an alternative to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests that cultural changes lead to changes in language. (T/F)

Interraicial, biracial, and multiracial identities are becoming more and more common in the United States. (T/F)

Just as in other areas of anthropology, the study of language involves investigating what is or isn't shared across human populatvcanguages have a common structural basis. He calls this set of rules

Race, like ethnicity in general, is

Phonology is the study of speech sounds. (T/F)

What is the term for ethnic groups that once had, or with to have or regain, autonomous political status?

What term refers to the destruction of the culture of an ethnic group?

Adding together men's and women's sustenance activities and their domestic work, man tend to work more hours than women do. (T/F)

Domestic violence against women is prevalent in patrilineal-patrilocal systems in which women are cut off from their supportive kin ties. (T/F)

In chiefdoms, individuals are ranked according to seniority, but everyone is believed to be descended from common ancestors. (T/F)

In tribal societies, the village head leads by example and through persuasion; he lacks the ability to force people to do things. (T/F)

The specific roles assigned to each gender vary from culture to culture. (T/F)

Foraging economies are usually associated with which type of sociopolitical organization?

In the anthropological study of political systems, social control maintains social norms (cultural standards) and regulates conflicts. Which of the following is NOT a form of social control?

In which type of society would you expect womens status to be highest?

Transgender is a social category that

What is hegemony?