anthropology homework number (1) ..الواجب الأول

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Where do cultural anthropologists carry out fieldwork?
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Your response:
e.
In all kinds of societies.
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In factories.
In the tropics.
In the third world.
In former colonies.
In all kinds of societies.

The fact that anthropology focuses on both cultural and biological evolution
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Your response:
d.
allows it to address “nature vs. nurture” questions.
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is unique to the kind of anthropology found in Europe.
is the reason it has traditionally studied primitive societies.
is a product of the participant observation approach.
allows it to address “nature vs. nurture” questions.
is insignificant, since evolution is studied by biological anthropologists while culture is studied by cultural anthropologists.

The presence of more efficient respiratory systems to extract oxygen from the air among human populations living at high elevation is an example of what kind of adaptation?
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Your response:
b.
long-term physiological adaptation
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The correct answer is:
immediate physiological adaptation
long-term physiological adaptation
cultural adaptation
symbolic adaptation
genetic adaptation

Why do archaeologists study garbage?
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Your response:
a.
It contains information about patterns of consumption.
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It contains information about patterns of consumption.
They don't study garbage.
The uniform decay rate of garbage yields more accurate dating estimates.
Garbage is less perishable than stone tools.
They are no longer allowed to study human remains.

Which of the following is not one of the four subfields of academic anthropology?
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Your response:
b.
medical anthropology
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linguistic anthropology
medical anthropology
biological anthropology
cultural anthropology
archaeological anthropology

One basis for the increasing cooperation between the disciplines of anthropology and history is
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Your response:
c.
that anthropology maybe holistic, but it does not include history.
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that historians do not understand the world systems perspective.
a common interest in change through time.
that anthropology maybe holistic, but it does not include history.
that historians need help translating the written records left by Neanderthals.
typically, anthropology is relativist, while history is not.

Which of the following kinds of adaptation is unique to human groups?
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Your response:
d.
cultural adaptation
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short-term physiological adaptation
long-term physiological adaptation
biological adaptation
cultural adaptation
genetic adaptation

How are the four subfields of American anthropology unified?
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Your response:
a.
Each subfield studies human variation through time and space.
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Each subfield studies human variation through time and space.
Each subfield studies the human capacity for language.
Each subfield studies human biological variability.
Each subfield studies human genetic variation through time and space.
The subfields really are not unified; their grouping into one discipline is a historical accident.

What is the process by which children learn a particular cultural tradition?
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Your response:
c.
enculturation
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acculturation
ethnology
enculturation
ethnography
biological adaptation

Forensic anthropology applies the data, perspectives, theory, and methods of which subfield of academic anthropology?
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Your response:
e.
biological anthropology
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The correct answer is:
archaeological anthropology
cultural anthropology
linguistic anthropology
medical anthropology
biological anthropology

Over time, how has human reliance on cultural means of adaptation changed?
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Your response:
c.
Humans have become increasingly more dependent on it.
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Humans have become increasingly less dependent on it.
Humans have become entirely reliant on biological means.
Humans have become increasingly more dependent on it.
Humans are just beginning to depend on it.
Humans no longer use it.

Which of the four subdisciplines of anthropology studies primates?
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Your response:
e.
biological anthropology
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The correct answer is:
cultural anthropology
archaeological anthropology
linguistic anthropology
developmental anthropology
biological anthropology

What are the four subdisciplines of anthropology?
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Your response:
c.
biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology.
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The correct answer is:
medical anthropology, ethnography, ethnology, and cultural anthropology.
archaeology, biological anthropology, applied linguistics, and applied anthropology.
biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology.
genetic anthropology, physical anthropology, psychological anthropology, anthropology and linguistics.
primatology, ethnology, cultural anthropology, and paleoscatology.

What is the world system perspective?
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Your response:
b.
The viewpoint that emphasizes the linkages between the world's societies.
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The model that the world is a system of peer polities.
The viewpoint that emphasizes the linkages between the world's societies.
The theory that cultures around the world share a single set of universal symbols.
The perspective that emphasizes cooperation between American and European anthropologists to better understand the system of cultures around the world.
The idea that the world consists of a series of isolated, independent cultures.

Four-field anthropology
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Your response:
a.
was largely shaped by early American anthropologists' interests in Native Americans.
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was largely shaped by early American anthropologists' interests in Native Americans.
is unique to Old-World anthropology.
stopped being useful when the world became dominated by nation-states.
was replaced in the 1930s by the two-field approach.
was originally practiced in Europe, because of a particularly British interest in military behavior.

According to Kottak, anthropology may improve psychological studies of human behavior by contributing
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Your response:
e.
cross-cultural perspective on models of “human” psychology
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examples of primitive thinking from tribal societies
nothing, since anthropology focuses on culture and psychology focuses on personality
prehistoric analysis
uncritical repletion
cross-cultural perspective on models of “human” psychology

Based on his observations that contact between neighboring tribes had existed since human beginnings and covered enormous areas, Franz Boas argued
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Your response:
e.
against treating cultures as isolated phenomena.
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that even the earliest hunter-gatherers engaged in warfare.
that language must have originated with Neanderthals.
that biology, and not culture, was responsible for the vast majority of human diversity.
that general anthropologists had the wrong idea, because they were interested in biology.
against treating cultures as isolated phenomena.

In which of the following countries is it stigmatized for women to have lean, hard, strong bodies?
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Your response:
a.
Brazil
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The correct answer is:
Brazil
Germany
Netherlands
Australia
Norway

Anthropological linguistics
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Your response:
c.
includes sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics, and the study of the biological basis for speech.
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is a research strategy peculiar to the biological anthropologist.
relies heavily on the methods of phrenology.
includes sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics, and the study of the biological basis for speech.
includes cultural anthropology and paleoecology.
has securely dated the origin of hominid language.

Why is anthropology unique among disciplines that study humans?
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Your response:
d.
It is holistic and comparative.
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The correct answer is:
It studies foreign places.
It includes biology.
It uses personal interviews of the study population.
It is holistic and comparative.
It studies only groups that are thought to be “dying.”

What is ethnography?
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Your response:
c.
The study of animal behavior.
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The study of biological adaptability.
The fieldwork aspect of cultural anthropology.
The study of animal behavior.
The comparative component of cultural anthropology.
The generalizing aspect of cultural anthropology.

An anthropologist who is consulting for a development project is
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Your response:
b.
an applied anthropologist.
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doing paleoethnography.
an applied anthropologist.
a biological anthropologist.
an ethnomarketer.
doing glottochronology.

Which of the following statements about theories is not true?
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Your response:
b.
A theory is an explanatory framework that helps us understand why something exits.
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Scientists evaluate them through the method of falsification.
A theory is an explanatory framework that helps us understand why something exits.
Theories cannot be proved.
A theory phenomenon has been proven to occur invariably whenever certain conditions are met.
Scientists accept theories that have not been disproved.

What component of cultural anthropology is comparative and focused on building upon our understanding of how cultural systems work?
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Your response:
c.
ethnology
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The correct answer is:
ethnography
data collection
ethnology
fieldwork
data entry

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Which of the following terms is defined as a suggested explanation for observed things and events?
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Your response:
a.
hypothesis
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The correct answer is:
hypothesis
theory
association
model
law

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