Exam 18: Applied Anthropology

Why do you think the advocacy role in anthropology is so difficult, requiring great sensitivity and complex moral and political judgment? Can you give an example of this type of applied anthropology?

Applied studies in medical anthropology can often help health providers design more effective means of delivering health care to a group of people.

Cultural and applied anthropologists have a role in helping to define universal standards for human rights in all societies.

When patients in Thailand used a combination of ritual, magic, and modern scientific medicine to treat an illness, Louis Golomb referred to this behavior as:

As a facilitator, the anthropologist actively helps to bring about change in the community being researched.

Which of the following was NOT among Van Willigen and Channa's recommendations for decreasing the incidence of dowry death in India?

One can understand the values and worldviews of another people and not accept all of their practices or standards.

Most of the development work in the 1950s and 1960s sponsored by AID and researched by applied anthropologists, focused on large-scale projects such as hydroelectric dams, industrialization, and mechanized agriculture.

Anthropologist Robert Redfield has suggested that there are general standards of judgment that can be applied to most societies.

Anthropologists John Van Willigen and V. C. Channa found that the increase in dowry deaths was partially the result of:

Ethical relativism is the idea that we cannot impose the values of one society on other societies.