Exam 1

A  sample

B  formal questionnaire

C  random sample

D  variable

A  All humans believe the universe is separate from the human world.

B  Many people who live along the Pacific Coast of Southern California are surfers, while many people who live in Montreal, Canada are hockey players.

C  All peoples in a given region of the world believe in similar creation myths.

D  All human groups have narratives of how humans were created.

A  Ethnology focuses on the study of a particular cultural group, while ethnography emphasizes a comparative perspective on culture.

B  Ethnography studies cultures that are isolated from one another, while ethnology studies nations influenced by globalization.

C  Ethnologists interpret data from different cultural groups to make generalizations about human society and culture.

D  Ethnography focuses on large societies stratified by class while ethnology studies small societies with little difference in wealth or power.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  moral relativist

B  ethnocentrist

C  materialist

D  idealist

A  Most resources are common goods.

B  There are no differences in social class.

C  Power and prestige are based on kinship and rank.

D  Men and women do different productive tasks.

A  culture is shared

B  culture is learned

C  we strive for cultural relativism

D  culture is symbolic

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  Anthropologists doing no harm to the peoples they study.

B  The idea of truth and falsehood in a given narrative.

C  If the anthropologist or a local person has the right to narrate a story.

D  The AAA code of ethics anthropologists are bound to.

A  ethnology

B  en etic research approach

C  an emic research approach

D  quantitative methodology

A  multi-sited ethnography

B  reflective ethnogrraphy

C  ethnology

D  longitudinal research

A  the structure of academia

B  cultural relativism

C  indirect diffusion

D  her agency

A  processual archaeology

B  structural-functionalism

C  homeostasis

D  functionalism

A  the religious belief of sacredness of cows

B  the benefits that cows provide to humans in labor and as a source of milk

C  an irrational mystification of cows

D  the worship of cows as reincarnated spirits

A  an inverse relationship

B  a causal relationship

C  the empirical method

D  a coorelation

A  an informal question

B  a formal question

C  a randon sample

D  participant observation

A  of the desire to work in a university and not in the military

B  of the lack of support for the Iraq War

C  of the great potential to cause harm to local peoples

D  of the lack of just compensation given to local informants

A  an animistic

B  a nostical

C  an agnostic

D  a monotheistic

A  randomized sampling; generalized sampling

B  causal relationships; coorelations

C  quantitative methods; qualitative methods

D  qualitative methods; quantitative methods

A  enculturation

B  independent invention

C  acculturation

D  indirect diffusion

A  community leader

B  gatekeeper

C  key informant

D  shaman

A  Diffusion & enculturation.

B  Cross-cultural study & holism.

C  Cultural relativism & ethnocentrism.

D  Objectivity & documenting the truth.

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  hierarchies of dominance

B  sex

C  cultural means of adaptation to the natural environment

D  biological means of adaptation to the natural environment

A  is a binding legal document for anthropologists researching, scholarly, and teaching endeavors

B  is a set of guidelines for proper conduct by anthropologist working during fieldwork, in the research laboratory, or in the classroom

C  states that anthropologists should be advocates for the peoples they study

D  requires all anthropologists to pay informants when receiving federal funding

A  Psychic unity of humankind

B  Anthropos

C  The comparitive perspective

D  Holism

A  enculturation

B  acculturation

C  diffusion

D  cultural relativism

A  religion

B  idealism

C  delusion

D  materialism

A  narrative justification

B  applied ethics

C  just compensationi

D  multiple truths

A  Speaking publically about their research and research results.

B  Submitting a research proposal.

C  Publishing their research results in a peer-reviewed journal.

D  Beginning a research project involving humans.

A  Symbolism

B  Integration

C  Subculture

D  Enculturation

A  ethnology

B  genealogy

C  longitudinal research

D  ethnography

A  gender equality

B  sexuality

C  androcentric

D  gender

A  Cultural relativism means you cannot compare cultures.

B  Cultural relativism means that anything a particular cutlure believes is ture.

C  Cultural relativism means that there are multiple standards of behavior.

D  Cultural relativism means that there are not cultural universals.

A  cultural anthropology

B  linguistic anthropology

C  applied anthropology

D  archeology

A  peasants

B  Caucasians

C  undeveloped

D  primative peoples

A  a variable

B  an observation

C  a statistic

D  a hypothesis

A  an idealist

B  an etic

C  an emic

D  a relativistic

A  The scientific method.

B  Cultural relativism.

C  A hypothesis.

D  The emperical method.

A  acculturation

B  enculturation

C  cultural relativism

D  ethnocentrism