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Ant 100 Refined Exam Questions And
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A primary reason to study anthropology is to - answers✔✔learn more about our own culture
and ask better questions about how to address cultural challenges
In anthropology the "holistic," principal means: - answers✔✔integrating what is known about
all aspects of human beings and cultures at an inclusive level.
To say that anthropology is a "comparative discipline" means that: -
answers✔✔anthropological generalizations must draw on evidence from many different
societies and cultures.
Which of the following is the best definition of anthropology? - answers✔✔The study of
humankind in all times and places.
Cultural relativism: - answers✔✔requires us to take native views and many things into
account before we form opinions about other cultural practices.
Culture consists of: - answers✔✔learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as
members of society
In anthropology, "emic" refers to: - answers✔✔the internal or native person's viewpoint
Ethnocentrism would be associated with: - answers✔✔viewing one's own culture as superior
to others
Humans learn culture from people and cultural institutions that surround them -
answers✔✔throughout their entire lives
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The classification of peoples based on assumed physical characteristics is known as: -
answers✔✔race
anthropologists promote the idea of the noble savage to emphasize the value of indigenous
cultures. - answers✔✔false
One type of fieldwork in anthropology is ethnography. Ethnography is the in-depth study of
everyday practices and lives of a people. Ethnography produces a detailed description of the
studied group at a particular time and location. - answers✔✔True
Money that migrants laboring outside of the region or country send back to their hometowns
and families are called remittances. - answers✔✔True
Ethnographers and many other anthropologists advocate for a more ethnocentric approach
when studying groups and individuals of other cultures. - answers✔✔false
Cultural relativism is the idea that we should seek to understand another person's beliefs and
behaviors from the perspective of their culture rather than our own. - answers✔✔true
Ethnographic methods include keeping field notebooks that document ethnographers ideas
and reflections as well as what they do and observe when participating in activities with the
people they are studying, a research technique known as participant observation. Other
sources of ethnographic data include informal conversations and more-formal interviews that
are recorded and transcribed. They also collect documents such as letters, photographs,
artifacts, public records, books, and reports. - answers✔✔true
Words, categories, and perspectives that are emic are... - answers✔✔descriptions of
behaviors and beliefs in terms that are meaningful to people who belong to a specific culture,
e.g.
Words, categories, and perspectives that are etic are... - answers✔✔explanations for behavior
by an outside observer in ways that are meaningful to the observer.
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The tendency of cultures to respond to external pressures by revitilizing what they view as
their traditional beliefs is often referred to as salvage ethnography. - answers✔✔false
A "thick description," as described by Clifford Geertz, explains not only the behavior or
cultural event in question but also the context in which it occurs and anthropological
interpretations of it. Such descriptions help readers better understand the internal logic of why
people in a culture behave as they do and why the behaviors are meaningful to them. -
answers✔✔true
Ethnography is very quantitative in nature and not particularly qualitative. - answers✔✔false
A hallmark of the four-field approach is its holistic perspective: anthropologists are interested
in studying everything that makes us human. Thus, they use multiple approaches to
understanding humans throughout time and throughout the world. They also acknowledge
that to understand people fully one cannot look solely at biology, culture, history, or
language; rather, all of those things must be considered. - answers✔✔true
Most often, ethnographers include both emic and etic perspectives in their research and
writing. - answers✔✔true
Another name for a multi sited ethnography is a diaspora. A diaspora is two or more specific
places where an ethnographer conducts fieldwork. - answers✔✔false
Today, anthropologists recognize that human cultures constantly change as people respond to
social, political, economic, and other external and internal influences—that there is no
moment when a culture is more authentic or more primitive. - answers✔✔true
Because of how useful the ethnographic research strategy is in understanding the perspectives
of others, it has been adopted by many other disciplines including sociology, education,
psychology, and political science. - answers✔✔true
A polyvocal text is one in which more than one person's voice is presented, and its use can
range from ensuring that informants' perspectives are presented in the text while still writing
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in the researcher's voice to including informants' actual words rather than paraphrasing them
and co-authoring the ethnography with an informant. - answers✔✔true
The rejection of both postmodernism and reflexivity in research is perhaps the most
significant change in how ethnography is researched and written in the past 50 years. -
answers✔✔false
Bohannan initially assumed that Hamlet had essentially one universal interpretation and it
was an obvious one. - answers✔✔true
The Tiv were outraged that Hamlet's mother and uncle would marry so soon after the death of
Hamlet's father. - answers✔✔false
The Tiv elders seem far less ethnocentric in their assumptions about the story of Hamlet. -
answers✔✔false
To say that you do not believe in ghosts is the same as having no concept of ghosts. -
answers✔✔false
The specific beliefs of the Tiv did not prove fundamental to their interpretation of the story of
Hamlet. - answers✔✔false
The Tiv thought that it was inappropriate of Hamlet to seek vengeance against his uncle even
if his uncle did murder his father. They think he should have approached others of his father
and uncles age group and appealed to them to seek justice. - answers✔✔True
In the end, the Tiv have basically understood the story in the way intended by Bohannan. -
answers✔✔false
The language/s that we speak has an impact on how we think - answers✔✔true
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Ant 100 Refined Exam Questions And
Answers
A primary reason to study anthropology is to - answers✔✔learn more about our own culture
and ask better questions about how to address cultural challenges
In anthropology the "holistic," principal means: - answers✔✔integrating what is known about
all aspects of human beings and cultures at an inclusive level.
To say that anthropology is a "comparative discipline" means that: -
answers✔✔anthropological generalizations must draw on evidence from many different
societies and cultures.
Which of the following is the best definition of anthropology? - answers✔✔The study of
humankind in all times and places.
Cultural relativism: - answers✔✔requires us to take native views and many things into
account before we form opinions about other cultural practices.
Culture consists of: - answers✔✔learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as
members of society
In anthropology, "emic" refers to: - answers✔✔the internal or native person's viewpoint
Ethnocentrism would be associated with: - answers✔✔viewing one's own culture as superior
to others
Humans learn culture from people and cultural institutions that surround them -
answers✔✔throughout their entire lives
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The classification of peoples based on assumed physical characteristics is known as: -
answers✔✔race
anthropologists promote the idea of the noble savage to emphasize the value of indigenous
cultures. - answers✔✔false
One type of fieldwork in anthropology is ethnography. Ethnography is the in-depth study of
everyday practices and lives of a people. Ethnography produces a detailed description of the
studied group at a particular time and location. - answers✔✔True
Money that migrants laboring outside of the region or country send back to their hometowns
and families are called remittances. - answers✔✔True
Ethnographers and many other anthropologists advocate for a more ethnocentric approach
when studying groups and individuals of other cultures. - answers✔✔false
Cultural relativism is the idea that we should seek to understand another person's beliefs and
behaviors from the perspective of their culture rather than our own. - answers✔✔true
Ethnographic methods include keeping field notebooks that document ethnographers ideas
and reflections as well as what they do and observe when participating in activities with the
people they are studying, a research technique known as participant observation. Other
sources of ethnographic data include informal conversations and more-formal interviews that
are recorded and transcribed. They also collect documents such as letters, photographs,
artifacts, public records, books, and reports. - answers✔✔true
Words, categories, and perspectives that are emic are... - answers✔✔descriptions of
behaviors and beliefs in terms that are meaningful to people who belong to a specific culture,
e.g.
Words, categories, and perspectives that are etic are... - answers✔✔explanations for behavior
by an outside observer in ways that are meaningful to the observer.
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The tendency of cultures to respond to external pressures by revitilizing what they view as
their traditional beliefs is often referred to as salvage ethnography. - answers✔✔false
A "thick description," as described by Clifford Geertz, explains not only the behavior or
cultural event in question but also the context in which it occurs and anthropological
interpretations of it. Such descriptions help readers better understand the internal logic of why
people in a culture behave as they do and why the behaviors are meaningful to them. -
answers✔✔true
Ethnography is very quantitative in nature and not particularly qualitative. - answers✔✔false
A hallmark of the four-field approach is its holistic perspective: anthropologists are interested
in studying everything that makes us human. Thus, they use multiple approaches to
understanding humans throughout time and throughout the world. They also acknowledge
that to understand people fully one cannot look solely at biology, culture, history, or
language; rather, all of those things must be considered. - answers✔✔true
Most often, ethnographers include both emic and etic perspectives in their research and
writing. - answers✔✔true
Another name for a multi sited ethnography is a diaspora. A diaspora is two or more specific
places where an ethnographer conducts fieldwork. - answers✔✔false
Today, anthropologists recognize that human cultures constantly change as people respond to
social, political, economic, and other external and internal influences—that there is no
moment when a culture is more authentic or more primitive. - answers✔✔true
Because of how useful the ethnographic research strategy is in understanding the perspectives
of others, it has been adopted by many other disciplines including sociology, education,
psychology, and political science. - answers✔✔true
A polyvocal text is one in which more than one person's voice is presented, and its use can
range from ensuring that informants' perspectives are presented in the text while still writing
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in the researcher's voice to including informants' actual words rather than paraphrasing them
and co-authoring the ethnography with an informant. - answers✔✔true
The rejection of both postmodernism and reflexivity in research is perhaps the most
significant change in how ethnography is researched and written in the past 50 years. -
answers✔✔false
Bohannan initially assumed that Hamlet had essentially one universal interpretation and it
was an obvious one. - answers✔✔true
The Tiv were outraged that Hamlet's mother and uncle would marry so soon after the death of
Hamlet's father. - answers✔✔false
The Tiv elders seem far less ethnocentric in their assumptions about the story of Hamlet. -
answers✔✔false
To say that you do not believe in ghosts is the same as having no concept of ghosts. -
answers✔✔false
The specific beliefs of the Tiv did not prove fundamental to their interpretation of the story of
Hamlet. - answers✔✔false
The Tiv thought that it was inappropriate of Hamlet to seek vengeance against his uncle even
if his uncle did murder his father. They think he should have approached others of his father
and uncles age group and appealed to them to seek justice. - answers✔✔True
In the end, the Tiv have basically understood the story in the way intended by Bohannan. -
answers✔✔false
The language/s that we speak has an impact on how we think - answers✔✔true
