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ANTH 411 final exam Question and answers rated A+ 2024/2025 ANTH 411 final exam
Which of the following statements is false? - correct answer Culture commonly emerges out of the blue and remains fixed over time (it's static).
Anthropologists primarily study individuals and their unique cha...
ANTH 411 final exam
Which of the following statements is false? - correct answer ✔Culture
commonly emerges out of the blue and remains fixed over time (it's static).
Anthropologists primarily study individuals and their unique characteristics
rather than the shared characteristics of the entire group. - correct answer
✔false
How does anthropology differ from other disciplines concerned with humans?
- correct answer ✔It is holistic and comparative, both geographically and
historically.
The process of sharing and passing on culture across generations and
between populations is called: - correct answer ✔enculturation
Match the following anthropologists on the left with the concept, idea, or
culture they are well known for. - correct answer ✔Bronislaw Malinowski:
Long-term fieldwork where the native's point of view is gained by living among
the people, learning their language, and taking part in their daily lives
Claire Sterk: Faced multiple barriers to entering the field, but eventually
gained the trust of the community. Experienced culture shock, and grappled
with ethical dilemmas while doing ethnographic fieldwork.
Margaret Mead: Student of Boas whose research was a good example of a
longitudinal study of a particular community. Also, was a well-known public
anthropologist during the mid-1900s.
Richard Lee: Built trusting relationships with his informants despite having to
refrain from sharing his modern goods with them; subsequently learned an
important lesson about !Kung life when trying to give them a gift
,____________ was a theory that rejected the ideas promoted by the unilineal
cultural evolutionists, and instead argued that cross-cultural differences could
be explained by looking at each culture's particular context. - correct answer
✔historical particularism
Read the following situation and decide which option (A-D) best describes
what is going on:
"I just don't understand why any woman would agree with or support the idea
of female genital modification—of whatever kind, I don't even want to hear any
more about it," said Maureen. "The practice is barbaric, and not to mention it's
often dangerous to the health of the woman!" Her friend Fred just looked at
her, and responded, "I know it's hard to really wrap your mind around, but it
might be easier to understand if you took the time to listen to why the practice
still exists based on the explanations given by the people from within that
culture." "Some parts of our culture are just as odd, no? Just think of all of the
things that probably seem strange to outsiders about our own culture—what
about plastic surgery, tanning, wearing makeup, etc.?" he finished. Fred is
advocating that Maureen practice: - correct answer ✔cultural relativism
Read the following situation and decide which option (A-D) best describes
what is going on:
Dan routinely went to the farmer's market every Saturday morning during the
summer. This summer, he frequently saw African refugees shopping at the
fruit and vegetable stalls. "Wow," he thought to himself, "they look so strange,
and the women are covered head to foot in long dresses and head scarves.
Don't they know that it is summer time, that it is too hot to wear so many
clothes, and that they look funny? Don't they want to look more American?
Why wouldn't everyone want to blend in better when they live here, and look
more normal, more like us?" Dan was experiencing: - correct answer
✔ethnocentrism
, Read the following situation and decide which term (A-D) best describes the
situation:
Every morning Henry sat in his study, pouring over the latest journals, letters,
and reports sent back to London from faraway places around the world. Some
of his favorites included missionary's accounts of their contact with a newly
"discovered" group of Indians living in central Brazil. After Henry read over the
accounts, he would develop his own theories that explained the life styles of
the Brazilian Indians—theories that would place the group somewhere along
an evolutionary spectrum from "primitive" to "civilized." We'd call what Henry
did: - correct answer ✔armchair anthropology
in the history of anthropology, "living fossils" refers to evidence of prehistoric
cultures found by early archaeologists and explorers. - correct answer ✔false
Match each of the theoretical orientations on the right with the most
appropriate key figure on the left. - correct answer ✔Charles Darwin:
Promoted a theory explaining the process whereby organisms better adapted
to their environment tended to survive and produce more offspring
Horace Miner: Took an etic perspective to make the familiar strange
Louis Henry Morgan: Subscribed to the theory that individuals, groups, and
peoples are subject to the same evolutionary laws of natural selection as
plants and animals
Franz Boas: Focused on the particulars of a culture to understand its
development and contemporary characteristics
Match the following aspect of culture change and globalization on the left with
its description on the right. - correct answer ✔cultural assimilation: The
process whereby a newcomer to a culture begins to become more and more
similar to the new, host culture and socity (linguistically, culturally, socially,
legally, etc.)
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