Question 1

Anthropologists take a comprehensive approach to understanding human beings. They accomplish this task by:

Accepted Answer

A)  exploring the past. 
B)  using the four-field approach. 
C)  focusing mainly on biology. 
D)  focusing mainly on participant observation. 
A)  exploring the past. 
B)  using the four-field approach. 
C)  focusing mainly on biology. 
D)  focusing mainly on participant observation.

Question 2

Pablo is an anthropologist studying the Japanese tea ceremony. He considers Japanese religion and history, as well as social relations, the politics of gender, and the language used to talk about the tea ceremony. Pablo's approach to studying the Japanese tea ceremony is an example of what aspect of anthropology?

Accepted Answer

A)  participant observation 
B)  physical anthropology 
C)  four-field approach 
D)  holism 
A)  participant observation 
B)  physical anthropology 
C)  four-field approach 
D)  holism

Question 3

What kind of researchers work to record languages that are disappearing by finding the last speakers and making recordings and dictionaries to preserve them for the future?

Accepted Answer

A)  descriptive linguists 
B)  historic linguists 
C)  cultural anthropologists 
D)  sociolinguists 
A)  descriptive linguists 
B)  historic linguists 
C)  cultural anthropologists 
D)  sociolinguists

Question 4

Which of the following primarily contributes to climate change and global warming?

Accepted Answer

A)  the strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits 
B)  overpopulation, which leads to increased consumption 
C)  increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases created by the burning of fossil fuels 
D)  natural changes in the earth's atmosphere, soil, and oceans 
A)  the strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits 
B)  overpopulation, which leads to increased consumption 
C)  increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases created by the burning of fossil fuels 
D)  natural changes in the earth's atmosphere, soil, and oceans

Question 5

Explain the difference between a descriptive linguist and a sociolinguist. If you knew the last living speaker of a language and wanted to preserve that language, who would you call and why?

Accepted Answer

Descriptive linguists describe and recor

Anthropologists take a comprehensive approach to understanding human beings. They accomplish this task by:

What kind of researchers work to record languages that are disappearing by finding the last speakers and making recordings and dictionaries to preserve them for the future?

Which of the following primarily contributes to climate change and global warming?

Explain the difference between a descriptive linguist and a sociolinguist. If you knew the last living speaker of a language and wanted to preserve that language, who would you call and why?

Culture

Fieldwork and Ethnography

Language

Race and Racism

Ethnicity and Nationalism

Gender

Sexuality

Kinship, Family, and Marriage

Class and Inequality

The Global Economy

Politics and Power

Religion

Health, Illness, and the Body

Art and Media

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Exam 1: Anthropology in a Global Age

Anthropologists take a comprehensive approach to understanding human beings. They accomplish this task by:

What kind of researchers work to record languages that are disappearing by finding the last speakers and making recordings and dictionaries to preserve them for the future?

Which of the following primarily contributes to climate change and global warming?

Explain the difference between a descriptive linguist and a sociolinguist. If you knew the last living speaker of a language and wanted to preserve that language, who would you call and why?

Culture

Fieldwork and Ethnography

Language

Race and Racism

Ethnicity and Nationalism

Gender

Sexuality

Kinship, Family, and Marriage

Class and Inequality

The Global Economy

Politics and Power

Religion

Health, Illness, and the Body

Art and Media

Filters