Question 1

Reflecting today's world in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and done on a larger scale.The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that

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A) challenges anthropologists concerned with salvaging isolated and untouched cultures around the world. 
B) becomes less useful and valuable to understanding culture. 
C) is increasingly multisited and multitimed, integrating analyses of external organizations and forces to understand local phenomena. 
D) is more traditional, negating anthropologists' concerns about defending their field's roots. 
E) requires researchers to stay at the same site for more than three years.

Question 2

Émile Durkheim's focus on social facts illustrates what assumption shared by many anthropologists?

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A) Social fact, just like any other fact, can be studied objectively. 
B) Culture is more of an idea in people's heads than a social reality. 
C) Culture is primarily a psychological and individual phenomenon. 
D) Social phenomena studied by anthropologists require study methods that are different from those used by other social scientists. 
E) Psychologists study individuals, but anthropologists study individuals as representative of something more: a collective phenomenon that is more than the sum of its parts.

Question 3

Beyond Morgan's and Tylor's early anthropological work, no major theoretical paradigm in anthropology has embraced the role of evolution in cultural change.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The emic perspective focuses on local explanations of criteria and significance.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

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

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A) that is necessary in conducting any valuable research in the social sciences, not just anthropology. 
B) that, if done properly, ensures the ethnographer's ability to conduct detached, unbiased research. 
C) achieved in large part by engaging in participant observation. 
D) and if that fails, the next option is to pay people so they will talk about their culture. 
E) as well as on payment, based on local standards, for people's time spent with the researcher.

Question 7

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.

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The answer of In today's world in which people, images,...

Question 8

Despite the variety of research techniques the ethnographer may utilize in the field, in the best studies the hallmark of ethnography remains

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A) collaborating with the community to construct a cohesive image of local culture. 
B) entering the community and getting to know its people. 
C) gathering large quantities of data on a limited budget. 
D) defining the local culture in such a way as to highlight what makes the particular culture so unlike any other. 
E) providing detailed descriptions of "the imponderabilia of native life and of typical behavior."

Question 9

Recalling Chapter 2, on culture, and after reading this brief historical account of anthropological theory, what do you think is the relationship between individuals and culture?

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Question 10

Franz Boas is the undisputed father of four-field U.S.anthropology.One of his most important and enduring contributions to anthropology was

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A) the field's earliest example of multitimed and multisited ethnography. 
B) providing evidence that both biology and culture are susceptible to evolutionary forces, thus providing a framework for the comparative method. 
C) stressing the relevance of independent invention in human cultural history. 
D) showing that human biology is plastic, and that biology (including race) does not determine culture. 
E) expanding the local ethnographic focus to include a regional perspective.

Exam 3: Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology

Reflecting today's world in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and done on a larger scale.The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that

Émile Durkheim's focus on social facts illustrates what assumption shared by many anthropologists?

Beyond Morgan's and Tylor's early anthropological work, no major theoretical paradigm in anthropology has embraced the role of evolution in cultural change.

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

The emic perspective focuses on local explanations of criteria and significance.

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

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.

Despite the variety of research techniques the ethnographer may utilize in the field, in the best studies the hallmark of ethnography remains

Recalling Chapter 2, on culture, and after reading this brief historical account of anthropological theory, what do you think is the relationship between individuals and culture?

Franz Boas is the undisputed father of four-field U.S.anthropology.One of his most important and enduring contributions to anthropology was