Anthropology 1820

Final exam

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Which key feature distinguishes anthropology as a separate area of study from other disciplines?

A focus on concept of culture, a holistic perspective, and a comparative approach

The learned values, beliefs, and rules of conduct shared by the members of a society that govern their behavior with one another is

culture

Processes by which immigrants maintain social, economic, religious, and political ties to both their immigrant and communities back home

Transnationalism

____ are cultural or ethnic groups who have become minorites in their native land due to migrations of other people

Cultural minorities

The founder of professional anthropology in the United States

Franz Boas

Rural to urban migration has tended to be called

labor migration

Which of the following was NOT a phase of colonialism?

Maritime

Which of the following is a common problem that anthropologists experience while doing field work?

Culture shock, avoiding being drawn into local conflicts, and gaining the trust of the people at research location

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states

that the form and content of language influence speaker's behaviors, thought processes, and worldview

Anthropology is the study of

humanity

Franz Boas introduced the idea of ___ into American anthropology

Cultural relativism

Sets of expectations and attitudes that people have about appropriate behavior

Norms

Approach in anthropology that stresses the importance of analyzing cultures in their own terms rather than your own culture

Cultural relativism

The sound p in pit is different from b in bit because

it is voiced

A symbol is

a culturally bound reminder of something else

___ occured wherever around the globe European colonizers came in contact with indigenous populations

Depopulation

__ is the spread of ideas, material objects, and cultural practices from one society to another through (in)direct culture contact

Diffusion

__ is the primary means by which humans adapt and survive

Culture

One result of slave-based economies in the new world

The accumulation of capital and resources that made the industrial revolution possible

__ is the study of systems of meaning in a language

Semantics

Which of the following is NOT a subfield in anthropology

social psychology

__ is the process of learning one's culture through informal observation and formal instruction

Enculturation

The major hallmark of the Globalization phase

Internation banking and loans

The hallmark of anthropological methods since the early 20th century

Fieldwork

Cultural pluralism is usually tolerated in Western nations as long as

The ethnic groups are productive members of the society

Political and economic movement that followed independence from European colonial powers is called

Nationalism

A culture-based, often ethnocentric, way that people see the world and other people

Worldview

Anthropolosy focuses on the role of ___ in shaping human behavior

Culture

Naturalized concepts are one of the main sources for

Ethnocentrism

One reason that transnational labor migration rarely alleviates poverty in the country of origin is that

The best educated and most highly skilled segments of society usually migrate

__ are small loosely organized groups of people held together by informal means

bands

Distribution of food, especially meat, in forager societies would be defined as

Generalized reciprocity