Question 1

Anthropology has sought directly to do each of the following except:

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A)  document the practice of culture.
B)  impose a Western and modern approach to life.
C)  document disappearing cultural practices.
D)  reconstruct traditional ways of life.
E)  educate its audience on the importance of culture.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 2

Which of the following is not a materialist theoretical approach?

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A)  Cultural ecology
B)  Cultural materialism
C)  Cognitive anthropology
D)  Sociobiology
E)  MarxismF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 3

Why is it important to study peasants?

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A)  They represent societies that are beginning to develop out of a primitive condition.
B)  They are the poorest people in the world.
C)  They always cause political revolution because they generate social unrest.
D)  They are the largest social category in the world.
E)  They are the primary source of labor throughout the capitalist world.F) A) and C)
G) B) and C)

Question 4

The study by Jefferey Snodgrass which conducted participant-observation research related to the video game "World of Warcraft" is called:

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A)  multi-sited ethnography.
B)  global ethnography.
C)  transnational ethnography.
D)  visual ethnography.
E)  digital ethnography.F) None of the above
G) All of the above

Question 5

Describe the challenges of subjectivity while in the field.

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Question 6

Discuss the relationship between advocacy anthropology and social justice.

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Advocacy anthropology and social justice...

Question 7

What types of physical danger may anthropologists encounter in the field? Choose two different field locations that might interest you,and consider what types of physical (environmental)challenges would be present in those places.

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Anthropologists may encounter various ty...

Question 8

Acculturation is best defined as:

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A)  a process in which two cultures come into contact and both of them are changed because of the culture contact.
B)  a process of unequal culture contact when a smaller culture is forced to adopt some of the ways of the dominant society.
C)  a process of culture change in which individuals grow older and adapt to the new biological and cultural needs they have within their own society.
D)  the process by which members of a society are taught cultural knowledge from their elders.
E)  genocide;it occurs when one culture eradicates another.F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 9

What are anthropologists' primary ethical responsibilities in fieldwork?

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Question 10

"Culture at a distance" is an approach in anthropology that allowed the study of other cultures through all of the following except:

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A)  interviews with immigrants.
B)  foreign films and newspapers.
C)  photographs.
D)  on-location ethnographic fieldwork.
E)  literature.F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 11

Anthropologist__________________was a pioneer in research on Afro-Mexicans and studied land tenure among Mexican Indian communities in the 1930s.

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A)  Gonzalo Aquirre Beltran
B)  Clifford Geertz
C)  Stephen Lansang
D)  Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo
E)  Jonathan MarksF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

The theoretical approach exhibited in the Marvin Harris inset on "Pig Lovers and Pig Haters" arguing that the natural conditions made pig-raising inefficient over the long-term is:

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A)  symbolic anthropology.
B)  neo-evolutionism.
C)  cultural ecology.
D)  political ecology.
E)  cultural materialism.F) D) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 13

In a culture,there is a difference between ideal and real behaviors.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

In the 1930s,anthropologists began researching how capitalist societies affected traditional cultures.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What effects has globalization had on anthropological research?

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Question 16

When researchers use things such as photographs in order to prompt people to speak with them about a particular topic,these are called:

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A)  soliciting devices.
B)  eliciting devices.
C)  prompting devices.
D)  circular conversations.
E)  participant tools.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

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