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ANTH 1000 Test 1 FALL 2010
Multiple Choice (2 points) Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Anthropology is ____. a. the study of Western culture primarily through the analysis of its folklore b. the study of humankind everywhere, throughout time c. the study of nonhuman primates through an analysis of their myth and folklore d. the study of the species Homo sapiens by analyzing its biological but not its cultural dimensions e. the analysis of humankind from the subjective perspective of one group ____ 2. Anthropology is different from other disciplines that study humans because ____. a. it was the first science to study human beings b. it synthesizes data from many fields in an effort to describe human behavior as a whole c. it has greater attention to details d. it requires a longer period of training e. it focuses primarily on contemporary Western societies ____ 3. ____ specializes in the identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes. a. Ethnology b. Paleoanthropology c. Forensic anthropology d. Archaeology e. Medical anthropology ____ 4. Which of the following is not one of the four branches of anthropology? a. archaeology b. linguistics c. biology d. ethnology/cultural anthropology e. physical anthropology ____ 5. As part of your job, you may study the frequency of blood types in human populations, or watch the behavior of monkeys and apes, or study human evolution. You are a(n) ____. a. ethnologist b. primatologist c. ethnographer d. physical anthropologist e. cultural anthropologist ____ 6. Cross-cultural research that allows the anthropologist to develop theories that help explain why certain important differences or similarities occur between groups is known as ____. a. ethnography b. biography c. ethnology d. ethnohistory e. ethnoarchaeology
____ 7. A detailed description of a particular culture based on fieldwork is called ____. a. ethnography b. biography c. ethnology d. ethnohistory e. ethnoarchaeology ____ 8. An archaeologist might attempt to study ____. a. material remains to reconstruct past cultures b. present languages to reconstruct when they diverged from a parent stock c. dinosaur bones to reconstruct past environments d. all of these e. a and c ____ 9. Humans appear to be unique in having a complex system of symbolic communication, called ____, that enables humans to preserve and transmit culture from generation to generation. a. the brain b. language c. genes d. cuneiform e. Esperanto ____ 10. Anthropologists doing fieldwork typically involve themselves in many different experiences. They try to investigate not just one aspect of culture (such as the political system) but how all aspects relate to each other (for example, how the political system fits with economic institutions, religious beliefs, etc.). This approach is called the ____ perspective. a. holistic b. ethnological c. sociocultural d. sociological e. culture-bound ____ 11. Ideally, theories in anthropology are generated from ____. a. intensive fieldwork done in a single society b. ethnographies from all over the world so that statements made about culture will be universally applicable c. worldwide questionnaire surveys d. intuitive thinking about society and culture based on experiences in your own society e. ideas about culture formulated by real smart people ____ 12. Anthropology has been called the most human of the sciences because ____. a. it has developed a systemic, cross-cultural approach to understanding human behavior b. it takes human beings as its subject matter ("the study of humankind") c. it develops hypotheses and theories about the organization of language, values, and art in culture d. it tackles culture as a human experience or system of meaning in which the anthropologist must involve himself/herself in order to develop adequate explanations of what is being observed e. all of these
d. integrated e. all answers are correct ____ 20. Humans' major mode of adaptation, which enables them to live effectively in diverse environments, is ____. a. sweat glands b. culture c. specialized teeth d. body hair e. biology ____ 21. This type of dating technique tells archaeologists simply that one artifact is older than another a. carbon 14 dating b. radiometric dating c. absolute dating d. relative dating e. none of the above ____ 22. The belief that one's own way of life is superior to others is ____. a. ethnocentrism b. cultural relativism c. egocentrism d. kulturpride e. ethnic-centeredness ____ 23. ____ refers to the position that because cultures are unique, each one can be evaluated only according to its own standards and values. a. Ethnocentrism b. Cultural relativism c. Cultural materialism d. Adaptation e. Pluralism ____ 24. In many Native American societies ____. a. only males are recognized b. more than two genders are recognized c. gender is not a designated category d. only females are recognized e. children are believed to have more than one gender at the same time ____ 25. A sign, sound, emblem, or other thing that is arbitrarily linked to something else and represents it in a meaningful way is called ____. a. a myth b. a symbol c. an omen d. a subculture e. an ethnic group ____ 26. Design features of language include: a. openness b. arbitrariness c. displacement
d. prevarication e. all of the above ____ 27. Chantek, the orangutan, was taught a. to speak b. sign language c. to write d. to paint in the manner of Bob Ross e. to act in the movies ____ 28. The modern scientific study of all aspects of language is ____. a. kinetics b. phonology c. linguistics d. grammar e. glottochronology ____ 29. Studying the language of the Tasaday indicated that ____. a. it was derived from the Manonbo language b. it had diverged from Manobo about 150 years ago c. they had no words of cultivated plants d. it was distinct from the surrounding languages e. all answers are correct ____ 30. Members of the society being studied who provide information that helps the researchers understand the meaning of what they observe. a. interviewees b. contacts c. ethnologs d. key informant/consultant e. none of the above ____ 31. The entire formal structure of a language including its morphology and syntax. a. morpheme b. form classes c. linguistics d. phonology e. grammar ____ 32. Kinesics is a method for notating and analyzing ____. a. screaming b. kissing c. any form of body language. d. fighting e. food ____ 33. The development of different languages from a single ancestral language is called ____. a. descriptive linguistics b. historical linguistics c. language subgroups d. linguistic divergence e. linguistic nationalism
a. is a product of enculturation b. is influenced by an individual's genetic makeup c. is a kind of cognitive map functioning throughout an individual's lifetime d. is an integrated, dynamic system of perceptual assemblages, which includes the self and its behavioral environment, that develops over time e. all of the above ____ 41. A book by Margaret Mead called Coming of Age in Samoa, published in 1928, ____. a. suggested that adolescent turmoil was due more to biological development than to cultural training b. stimulated interest in anthropology c. suggested that adolescent turmoil was due more to cultural training than to universal biological development d. was a deliberate test of a Western psychological hypothesis e. all but a ____ 42. Child-rearing practices that foster compliance on the performance of assigned tasks and dependence on the family, rather than reliance on oneself, are called ____. a. dependence training b. independence training c. family values d. patterns of affect e. core values ____ 43. The personality typical of a society, as indicated by the central tendency of a defined frequency distribution, is called, ____. a. a core value b. a nuclear personality c. a pattern of affect d. culture and personality e. a modal personality ____ 44. Studies of ____ were developed during World War II to explore the idea that basic personality traits were shared by most of the people in modern nations. a. modal personality b. national character c. stereotype d. group personality e. independence training ____ 45. "Two-spirit" is a male, passive homosexual in Native North American societies formerly known as ____. a. berdache b. rorschach c. sadhu d. man-woman e. zuni ____ 46. The applied aspect of archaeology that employs 90% of professional archaeologists a. Pot hunting b. digology
c. contract excavation d. academic archaeology e. cultural resource managament ____ 47. An ethnic psychosis refers to ____. a. a psychotic episode experienced by a person from an exotic culture b. a progressive disease which strikes anthropologists when they spend more than twelve months in the field c. a psychosis characterized by symptoms peculiar to a particular group d. a universal form of mental illness e. a biologically based disease that resembles schizophrenia ____ 48. ____ is the distinctive way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. a. Effectivity b. Individuality c. Emotionality d. Personality e. Temperamental ____ 49. Which of the following is of least interest to the archaeologist? a. artifacts b. ancient ruins c. burials d. dinosaur bones e. 20th c. trash dumps ____ 50. A peasant farmer’s belief that evil spirits were tormenting him and ruining his potato crop or an American businessman’s “panic attack” would be an example of ____. a. ethnic identity crisis b. universal psychosis c. 3rd world dementia d. an ethnic psychosis or culture bound syndrome e. just something old people do Essay (5 points)
- What was the controversy concerning the Tasaday?
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The controversy concerned a tribal people discovered in the Phillipines who appeared to have been isolated for thousands of years. Evidenced surfaced that they may have been a hoax, but anthropological investigation has shown that, while they were separated from the nearby Manobo peoples for the past 150 years, their isolation
