Exam 1: Anthropology and the Study of Culture

Linguistic anthropologists study __________.

What is culture and what are three of its key characteristics?

Describe one microculture that you know about from your personal experience, class lecture, class films, or reading. What makes this microculture distinct? What characteristics, if any, does it share with another microculture?

Among Tejano immigrants in the United States, making tamales symbolizes __________.

Excessive daytime sleepiness is correlated with decreased worker productivity in the country of __________.

Early forms of an organism evolve into later forms through the process of natural selection is the concept of __________ evolution.

The Paul Farmer Effect refers to growing student interest in combining the study of anthropology with psychology.

One way that Tejano immigrant women can express dissatisfaction with their marriages is by refusing to make tamales.

Examining anthropology's historical connections with racism, increasing racial diversity in academia, and teaching about racism are examples of steps proposed to move anthropology to being __________ anthropology.

The cultural materialist perspective uses a three-level model of culture that includes __________.

Both globalization and localization can be seen in the spread of McDonald's restaurants.

The theoretical approach which is the view that powerful structures such as economics, politics, and media shape cultures and create entrenched systems of inequality and oppression is referred to in the textbook as __________.

Papua New Guinea has many natural resources and a low rate of HIV/AIDS among its population.

Franz Boas promoted the theoretical approach referred to as __________, which is the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms.

Interpretive anthropology and "thick description" are mainly associated with a cultural anthropologist named __________.

According to the textbook, microcultures can be formed on the basis of __________.

Cultural materialists attempt to learn about culture by examining the material aspects of it, such as the environment and how people make a living within a particular environment.

Archaeologists use which of the following as research materials?

Define the principles of ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, absolute cultural relativism and critical cultural relativism. Choose an issue and consider it from two of these perspectives.

The tendency to apply one's own cultural values in judging the behavior and beliefs of people raised in other cultures is known as __________.