Exam 13: Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology

More recent approaches in historical anthropology, while sharing an interest in power with world-system theorists, have focused more on

What right do ethnographers have to represent a people or culture to which they don't belong? This question illustrates

In today's world in which people, images, and information move as never before, people simultaneously experience the local and the global. Explain what this means and consider its implications for methods in cultural anthropology.

When an ethnographer uses an interview schedule to gather information from the field, this inevitably limits the researcher's capacity to ask and answer truly relevant questions.

Since there are so many anthropologists in the United States, the distinction between emic and etic does not apply to American culture.

Ethnographers typically combine emic and etic research strategies in their fieldwork. This means they are interested in applying both

This chapter mentions the work of Wolf and Mintz, both students of Julian Steward, as illustrations of approaches that

Interpretive anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz approach the study of culture as

Morgan and Edward Tylor, both considered among the fathers of anthropology, worked within the paradigm of unilinear evolution.

The Human Terrain System seeks to embed anthropologists and other social scientists within military teams in Iraq and Afghanistan. Which of the following is NOT a reason that anthropologists and the AAA Executive Board object to the use of anthropologists in the military?

This chapter's survey of the major theoretical perspectives that have characterized anthropology highlights all of the following EXCEPT

Boas and his students were strong proponents of cross-cultural comparisons, without which they could not validate their findings.

Which of the following research methods is a distinctive strategy within anthropology?

In the field, ethnographers strive to establish rapport: a good, friendly working relationship based on personal contact

In survey research, what term is used to refer to the attributes that vary among the members of a population?

The American Anthropological Association Code of Ethics prohibits anthropologists from working with governments on matters of national security.

The view that each element of culture, such as the culture trait or trait complex, has its own distinctive history, and that social forms (such as totemism in different societies) that might look similar are not comparable because of their different histories, is known as

Given the realities of the contemporary world, anthropologists need to apply methods that protect their analyses from biases caused by external forces.

Which of the following is NOT an example of participant observation?

What is Project Minerva? What about the Human Terrain System? What concerns have these Pentagon programs raised among anthropologists? In your view, what role (if any) should academics play in national security?