Exam 1: The Essence of Anthropology

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 approach is called the _______________ perspective.

Which of the following would not indicate cooking or food processing at archaeological sites?

Humans are mammals,specifically primates.However,they do not share a common ancestry,like apes do,with other primates

The Garbage Project in Tucson demonstrated that what people say and what they do can differ dramatically.For instance,investigators found that _______________.

Anthropology has been called the most human of the sciences because _______________.

Physical anthropologists are only concerned with the past evolutionary development of the human animal and the biological variations with the species that occurred in the past.

Ethnographic research has shown that women in food foraging societies devote much more time to domestic chores than contemporary North American women do.

Which of the following exemplifies the concept of a "hypothesis"? The light bulb failed to light because _______________.

Cultural and economic upheavals born of globalization have nothing to do with the rising levels of ethnic and religious conflict throughout the world.

Unlike other scholars who study people,anthropologists are not concerned with the description and explanation of reality.

Ethnographic fieldwork is never done in Western societies.

The authors of your textbook have identified two countries that have made moves toward allowing same sex unions.Identify the two countries.

In human evolutionary studies,physical anthropologists known as _______________ look at fossilized skeletons of our ancestors to reconstruct the complex path of human evolution.

Which of the following is not a change that has affected ethnography during the 20ᵗʰ century?

In general,ethnologists study _______________.

A study of how people deal with consumer complaints would be a research interest of the _______________.

Ethnographies are _______________.

Clyde Snow is an anthropologist who _______________.

Ethnographic fieldwork _______________.