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Test Bank for Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural

Anthropology, 13th Edition by Conrad Kottak A+




1) This chapter begins with a commonly heard opinion: "People are pretty much the same

all over the world." Why is this assumption often wrong? How might your consideration of this

understanding affect how you would design an anthropological study?




2) What is culture? How do anthropologists define and study culture?




3) What does holism refer to? Why is the concept central to anthropology? How does this

concept relate to the "four-field" approach within the discipline? Have you encountered this

concept in any of your other classes?




4) This chapter provides an example of human adaptation to high altitude to illustrate the

various forms of cultural and biological adaptation. Can you think of another example that

illustrates the broad capacity of humans to adapt both biologically and culturally?




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5) What doesbiocultural perspective refer to? If you are planning to major in the biological

sciences or planning a career as a medical doctor or clinical researcher, how might a minor in

anthropology complement your education? If you are thinking of majoring in the humanities,

how might a minor in anthropology complement your education?



6) This chapter considers differences and similarities between anthropology and other

academic fields such as sociology. What about history?

7) Anthropology is the study of

A) humans around the world and through time.

B) the psychological stages of human development.

C) myths in industrial societies.

D) the evolution of religion.

E) long-term psychological adaptation.



8) Anthropology as a holistic science refers to the study of the whole of the human

condition: the past, the present, and the future of blank.



A) math, physics, and astronomy

B) biology, society, language, and culture

C) faith and religion across the world

D) geography and cartography

E) ancient civilizations and archaeological remains




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9) 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, which is not itself biological,

possible.

B) have made some human groups more cultured than others.

C) are shared with other animals capable of organized group life—such as baboons, wolves,

and even ants.

D) prove that only fully developed adults have the capacity for culture; children lack the

capacity for culture until they mature.

E) rest on certain features of human biology that make culture itself a biological

phenomenon.

10) Which of the following statements about culture isfalse?

A) Culture guides the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to it.

B) Culture is passed on from generation to generation.

C) Cultural forces consistently mold and shape human biology and behavior.

D) Culture is a key aspect of human adaptability and success.

E) Culture is passed on genetically to future generations.



11) What is the process by which children learn a particular cultural tradition?



A) biological adaptation

B) ethnology



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C) ethnography

D) acculturation

E) enculturation



12) This chapter's description of how humans cope with low oxygen pressure in high

altitudes illustrates



A) how in matters of life or death, biology is ultimately more important than culture.

B) the need for anthropologists to pay more attention to human adaptation in extreme

environments.

C) human capacities for cultural and biological adaptation, the latter involving both genetic

and physiological adaptations.

D) how human plasticity has decreased ever since we embraced a sedentary lifestyle some

10,000 years ago.

E) how biological adaptations are effective only when they are genetic.

13) The presence of more efficient respiratory systems to extract oxygen from the air among

human populations living at high elevations is an example of which form of adaptation?



A) genetic adaptation

B) symbolic adaptation

C) cultural adaptation

D) short-term physiological adaptation

E) long-term physiological adaptation



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