Exam 1

A  sample

B  variable

C  formal questionnaire

D  random sample

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

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 human groups have narratives of how humans were created.

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

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

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

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

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

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  idealist

B  moral relativist

C  ethnocentrist

D  materialist

A  Power and prestige are based on kinship and rank.

B  Men and women do different productive tasks.

C  There are no differences in social class.

D  Most resources are common goods.

A  we strive for cultural relativism

B  culture is shared

C  culture is symbolic

D  culture is learned

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  Anthropologists doing no harm to the peoples they study.

B  The AAA code of ethics anthropologists are bound to.

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

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

A  ethnology

B  an emic research approach

C  quantitative methodology

D  en etic research approach

A  multi-sited ethnography

B  ethnology

C  reflective ethnogrraphy

D  longitudinal research

A  cultural relativism

B  indirect diffusion

C  her agency

D  the structure of academia

A  functionalism

B  structural-functionalism

C  processual archaeology

D  homeostasis

A  the religious belief of sacredness of cows

B  an irrational mystification of cows

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

D  the worship of cows as reincarnated spirits

A  a causal relationship

B  the empirical method

C  an inverse relationship

D  a coorelation

A  an informal question

B  participant observation

C  a formal question

D  a randon sample

A  of the great potential to cause harm to local peoples

B  of the lack of just compensation given to local informants

C  of the lack of support for the Iraq War

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

A  a monotheistic

B  an agnostic

C  a nostical

D  an animistic

A  qualitative methods; quantitative methods

B  randomized sampling; generalized sampling

C  causal relationships; coorelations

D  quantitative methods; qualitative methods

A  enculturation

B  acculturation

C  independent invention

D  indirect diffusion

A  community leader

B  shaman

C  gatekeeper

D  key informant

A  Diffusion & enculturation.

B  Cross-cultural study & holism.

C  Objectivity & documenting the truth.

D  Cultural relativism & ethnocentrism.

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  sex

B  hierarchies of dominance

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  states that anthropologists should be advocates for the peoples they study

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

D  requires all anthropologists to pay informants when receiving federal funding

A  Holism

B  Anthropos

C  The comparitive perspective

D  Psychic unity of humankind

A  enculturation

B  diffusion

C  acculturation

D  cultural relativism

A  idealism

B  religion

C  materialism

D  delusion

A  just compensationi

B  multiple truths

C  applied ethics

D  narrative justification

A  Submitting a research proposal.

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

C  Speaking publically about their research and research results.

D  Beginning a research project involving humans.

A  Enculturation

B  Subculture

C  Integration

D  Symbolism

A  longitudinal research

B  ethnology

C  genealogy

D  ethnography

A  gender

B  androcentric

C  gender equality

D  sexuality

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

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

C  Cultural relativism means that there are not cultural universals.

D  Cultural relativism means you cannot compare cultures.

A  linguistic anthropology

B  archeology

C  cultural anthropology

D  applied anthropology

A  peasants

B  undeveloped

C  Caucasians

D  primative peoples

A  a statistic

B  an observation

C  a variable

D  a hypothesis

A  an emic

B  an idealist

C  an etic

D  a relativistic

A  The emperical method.

B  Cultural relativism.

C  A hypothesis.

D  The scientific method.

A  cultural relativism

B  ethnocentrism

C  acculturation

D  enculturation