Exam 1: The Essence of Anthropology

A forensic anthropologist cannot tell from skeletal remains the details of an individual's health and nutritional history.

Which of the following are broad research interests of physical anthropologists?

From skeletal remains,the forensic anthropologist cannot establish which of following?

Anthropology is different from other disciplines that study humans in its greater attention to detail and its requirement that students master the anatomical details of the human body before they even begin to study diverse cultures.

A(n)_______________ is a closely examined and critically checked out explanation of observed reality.

An archaeologist has a research project involving the analysis of an old campsite of a people who relied primarily on foraging for wild foods about 500,000 years ago.This project would be considered _______________.

The branch of anthropology that studies human languages is called _______________.

Which of the following services is not one that forensic anthropologists routinely are called upon by the police and other authorities to identify?

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/an _______________.

Which of the following are not primates?

The end product of anthropological research is _______________.

The branch of anthropology that studies past human cultures,some of which have left no written records,is known as _______________.

Technological innovations contributed to the development of anthropology in that it enabled people to travel to remote parts of the world.

Your textbook suggests that the concept of race emerged as an ideological vehicle for justifying European dominance over Africans and American Indians.

Forensic anthropologists have become increasingly involved in the investigation of human rights abuses in all parts of the world.Which of the following areas represent the most recent investigations of forensic anthropologists into human rights abuses?

Franz Boas did his first ethnographic research among the _______________.

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

Anthropology makes an important distinction between the political and social organization of _______________.

The work of medical anthropologists sheds light on the connections between _______________ both globally and locally.

A detailed description of a particular culture based on fieldwork is called _______________.