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According to the lecture, the holistic and scientific study of humanity is - Answer-anthropology Holism is useful in anthropology because - Answer--It was a part of Tylor's 1871 definition of culture. -It conveys the idea that culture is highly complex. -It encourages anthropologists to invest...

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According to the lecture, the holistic and scientific study of humanity is - Answer-
anthropology

Holism is useful in anthropology because - Answer--It was a part of Tylor's 1871
definition of culture.
-It conveys the idea that culture is highly complex.
-It encourages anthropologists to investigate layers of socially constructed meaning.

The detailed description of a single society based on fieldwork is.... - Answer-
ethnography

In Linguistic anthropology IPA refers to.... - Answer-The international phonetic alphabet

The phone /b/ as found in the word ball... - Answer-is a bilabial plosive

The use of Arabic script to phonetically transcribe the phones of Pular, or Wolof, is.... -
Answer-Ajami

The example from the lecture where how close you are expected to stand to others
while waiting in line varies is an example of - Answer-proxemics

the countries of Indonesia and papua new guinea have the greatest language diversity
because.... - Answer-Populations exist in relative isolation due to an island geography
and the partitioning of geographies by food subsistence strategies

The most important factor of language revitalization is..... - Answer-Having a group of
people to talk to

Nonhuman primates cant communicate vocally about the past because their call
systems lack.... - Answer-displacement

Sapir-whorf hypothesis proposes that - Answer-linguistic categories structure one's
reality

The field of anthropology which aims to understand past cultures based upon
interpretation of material remains is... - Answer-archaeology

Critical cultural relativism asserts that... - Answer-power differences between people
who accept cultural practices should be used to understand cultures

, The salvage paradigm emerged in anthropology emerged because... - Answer-
Anthropologists observed cultures that were experiencing genocide, they assumed that
one day knowledge and customs would be lost, and they believed that descriptive
methods could preserve indigenous cultures. (all of the above)

Maria wants to better understand lives of women in coffee farming in Brazil. What
research strategy will she use? - Answer-ethnographic field work

The anthropologist theory that proposed that cultures will progress through phases of
savagery and barbarism ultimately becoming civilization is... - Answer-unilineal cultural
evolution

applied anthropology focuses on - Answer-solving real world problems

anything that represents something else - Answer-symbol

if anthropologist engaged in ethnographic field work, they are likely... - Answer-
Participation in a role in a culture, prolonged observation, qualitative research (all of the
above)

If you travel to a cold environment and have to put on a jacket it is an example of... -
Answer-cultural adaptation

What way was the Nacirema story typical of ethnographic writing? - Answer-used
exotified language

research and trust anthropologist builds with participants - Answer-rapport

T or F: Human Terrain System first time anthropologists participate in warfare - Answer-
false

research method that relies on observing and learning in field while participating in daily
life of subjects is - Answer-participant observation

omphalokepsis refers to - Answer-navel gazing

insiders view of culture - Answer-emic perspective

contemporary ethnographies that provide "thick description" of culture are valued
because they provide... - Answer-sufficient contextual detail for an understanding of
culture

ethnology - Answer-focuses on comparison of cultures for theoretical understanding

when willson defines nega and adopts it in ethnography, she communicates something
more than "black." this strategy is known as... - Answer-gloss

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