Intro to Anthropology - Exam 1
Anthropology - - correct answer ✔✔the study of humankind in all times and places
Ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔✔the belief that the ways of one's own culture are the only proper
ones
Culture - correct answer ✔✔theories about the world and reality based on the assumptions and values
of one's own culture
Applied Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve
practical problems
Medical Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔specialization that brings theoretical and applied approaches
from cultural and biological anthropology to the study of human sickness and health
Cultural - correct answer ✔✔study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought and feelings
Culture - correct answer ✔✔society's shared and social transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions which
are used to make sense of experience
Ethnography - correct answer ✔✔detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on
fieldwork
Fieldwork - correct answer ✔✔term for on site location research
Participant observation - correct answer ✔✔learning the culture through social participation and
personal observation
, Ethnology - correct answer ✔✔study of analysis of different cultures from a comparative or historical
POV explain similarities and differences
Linguistic - correct answer ✔✔study of human languages
Discourse - correct answer ✔✔an extended communication on a particular subject
Archaeology - correct answer ✔✔study of human cultures through the recovery and analysis of material
remains and environment data
Bioarchaeology - correct answer ✔✔archaeological study of human remains
Cultural resource management - correct answer ✔✔concerned with survey and or excavation of
archaeological and historical remains
Physical anthropology - correct answer ✔✔systematic study of humans as biological organisms
Molecular - study of genes and genetic relationship
Paleoanthropology - correct answer ✔✔study of biological changes through time to understand the
origins and predecessors of the present human species
Biocultural - correct answer ✔✔an approach the focuses on the interaction of biology and culture
Primatology - correct answer ✔✔study of living and fossil primates
Forensic - correct answer ✔✔analysis of human skeletal remains for legal purposes
Empirical - correct answer ✔✔an approach based on observations of the world rather than on intuition
or faith
Anthropology - - correct answer ✔✔the study of humankind in all times and places
Ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔✔the belief that the ways of one's own culture are the only proper
ones
Culture - correct answer ✔✔theories about the world and reality based on the assumptions and values
of one's own culture
Applied Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve
practical problems
Medical Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔specialization that brings theoretical and applied approaches
from cultural and biological anthropology to the study of human sickness and health
Cultural - correct answer ✔✔study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought and feelings
Culture - correct answer ✔✔society's shared and social transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions which
are used to make sense of experience
Ethnography - correct answer ✔✔detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on
fieldwork
Fieldwork - correct answer ✔✔term for on site location research
Participant observation - correct answer ✔✔learning the culture through social participation and
personal observation
, Ethnology - correct answer ✔✔study of analysis of different cultures from a comparative or historical
POV explain similarities and differences
Linguistic - correct answer ✔✔study of human languages
Discourse - correct answer ✔✔an extended communication on a particular subject
Archaeology - correct answer ✔✔study of human cultures through the recovery and analysis of material
remains and environment data
Bioarchaeology - correct answer ✔✔archaeological study of human remains
Cultural resource management - correct answer ✔✔concerned with survey and or excavation of
archaeological and historical remains
Physical anthropology - correct answer ✔✔systematic study of humans as biological organisms
Molecular - study of genes and genetic relationship
Paleoanthropology - correct answer ✔✔study of biological changes through time to understand the
origins and predecessors of the present human species
Biocultural - correct answer ✔✔an approach the focuses on the interaction of biology and culture
Primatology - correct answer ✔✔study of living and fossil primates
Forensic - correct answer ✔✔analysis of human skeletal remains for legal purposes
Empirical - correct answer ✔✔an approach based on observations of the world rather than on intuition
or faith
