Exam 1: The-Essence-Of-Anthropology

As part of your job,you may study the frequency of blood types in human populations,or watch the behavior of monkeys and apes,or dig for early hominid bones in East Africa.You are a(n):

The key find at the Ukkuqsi site was:

The shared,learned behavior of non-human apes should not be considered culture.

Besides providing factual accounts of the fate of victims who had disappeared (desaparecidos)to their surviving kin,Dr.Snow's work helped convict several Argentine military officers of kidnapping,torture,and murder.

When state legislation sponsors any kind of archaeological work,it is called contract archaeology.

Anthropology is considered to be an empirical social science.

What is the primary purpose of practicing applied anthropology?

Studies of human adaptation focus on the capacity of humans to adapt,or adjust to their material environment,biologically and culturally.

What does it mean to take a "holistic perspective"?

The protection of cultural resources as part of archaeology is called:

Anthropology studies the language of a culture,its philosophy,and its forms of art.In the process of doing research,ethnographers involve themselves intensively in the lives of those they study,trying to experience culture from their informants' points of view.In this sense,anthropology is:

What is the best way to ensure that a people has the right to maintain its own culture?

Organ transplantation involves both biological and social systems.

The branch of anthropology that studies human languages is called:

Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own culture is superior to another.

According to anthropological ethics,the first responsibility of the anthropologist is to the people studied.

Emerging technologies have ethical implications with impact on anthropological fieldwork.

While ethnography is the in-depth study of a single culture,ethnology is the comparative study of culture.

All of the following exacerbated the Rohingya situation except:

Anthropologists doing fieldwork typically involve themselves in many different experiences.They try to investigate not just one aspect of culture (such as the political system)but how all aspects relate to each other (for example,how the political system fits with economic institutions,religious beliefs,etc.).This perspective is called: