ANTH 202 Quiz 1 UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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ANTH 202 Quiz 1 UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Cultural Materialism - CORRECT ANSWER- A theoretical position that takes material
features of life, such as the environment, natural resources, and mode of production, as the
bases for explaining social organization and ideolo...
ANTH 202 Quiz 1 UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Cultural Materialism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A theoretical position that takes material
features of life, such as the environment, natural resources, and mode of production, as the
bases for explaining social organization and ideology
Cultural Relativism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the perspective that each culture must be
understood in terms of the values and ideas of that culture and not judged by the standards of
another culture.
Participant Observation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔basic fieldwork method in cultural
anthropology that involves living in a culture for a long time while gathering data.
Kula - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a trading network, linking many of the Trobriand Islands,
in which men have long-standing partnerships for the exchange of everyday goods, such as
food, as well as highly valued necklaces and armlets
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the theory that a culture is similar to a biological
organism, in which parts work to support the operation and maintenance of the whole
Medical Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Considers the way economics and
political structures shapes people's health status, their access to health care, and the prevailing
healing systems.
Evolutionary Theory - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A concept developed by Charles Darwin to
explain the ways in which animals adapt to their environments.
Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A humanistic discipline that studies the diversity
of human kind in its cultural manifestations.
British Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Also referred to as Social Anthropology.
This discipline doesn't contain a four-field structure.
, Prehistoric Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔studies the lives and societies of people
who had no writing to keep records of their activities, customs, and beliefs.
Historic Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The study of past cultures that possessed
written records of their history.
Linguistic Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The study of human communications
including its origins, history, and contemporary variations and change.
Archaeology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The study of past human cultures through their
material remains.
Primatology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The study of nonhuman members of the order of
mammals called primates, including a wide range of animals from very small nocturnal
creatures to the largest members (E.g. Gorillas).
Armchair Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔refers to how early cultural
anthropologists conducted research by sitting at home in their library and reading reports
about other cultures written by travelers, missionaries, and explorers.
Interpretive Anthropology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Considers how people use symbols to
make sense of the world. around them. "Culture is a contested domain, not a given."
This term also rejects reductionist approaches.
Emic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔approach of studying a culture's behavior from the
perspective of an insider
Etic - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The analytical framework and tools used by outsiders in
searching for patterns and regularities concerning the insider's culture.
Collaborative Research - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔an approach to learning about culture
that involves anthropologists working with members of the study population as partners and
participants rather than as "subjects".
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