GLST 290 COMPLETE LATEST MIDTERM
BASED ACTUAL WITH QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
The truth is that anthropology is - ANS-✅the description, interpretation, and analysis of similarities and
differences in human cultures
The four subfields of anthropology are - ANS-✅Archeology, Physical/ Biological, Linguistics,
Cultural/Social
The primary method of research conducted by cultural anthropologists is - ANS-✅Participant
Observation
A picture of Participant observation would look like - ANS-✅a continuum with full participation at one
end and detached observation at the other.
Cultural anthropology draws together history, economics, politics, religion, family, and psychology, to
understand people's social and cultural lives, it overlaps with serveral disciplines but none more than -
ANS-✅sociology
Historically, sociologists have focused on societies - ANS-✅in the west and used quantitative research
methods
but anthropologists looked at - ANS-✅small societies outside of the west and used qualitative research
methods.
The Gift ( 1925) - ANS-✅Marcel mauss ( 1872- 1950)
The interpretation of culture ( 1973) - ANS-✅Clifford Geetz ( 1926- 2006)
American anthropologist and physician, combine native healing and teaching - ANS-✅Paul Farmer 1959-
fieldwork and participation observation, the sexual life of savages ( 1929) - ANS-✅Bronislaw Malinowski
( 1884-1942)
" social revolution", ancient society ( 1877) - ANS-✅Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818-1881)
Social marxist, Europe and the People Without History - ANS-✅Eric Wolf ( 1923- 1999)
Structuralism, The Savage Mind ( 1962) - ANS-✅Claude Lévi-Strauss ( 1908-2009)
culture and personality, Patterns of Culture ( 1934) - ANS-✅Ruth Benedict ( 1887- 1948)
sexuality, Coming of Age in Samoa ( 1928) - ANS-✅Margaret Mead ( 1901-1978)
Theory of relativism, Race, Language and Culture ( 1940) - ANS-✅Franz Boas
missionary anthropologists and linguists made significant contributions to the discipline from work that
flowed directly from their Christian work in Bible translation and evangelism, even establishing scholarly
journals such as - ANS-✅Anthros and Missiology( formerly known as practical anthropology) with the
express purpose of bringing together anthropology and missiology"
The 'ethnic fair' assumptions about cultures as - ANS-✅neatly bounded highly and homogeneous
entities simply didn't withstand scrutiny
The first anthropologists are now often called - ANS-✅armchair anthropologists for their gathering of
data from travelogues and books rather than from their own direct research.
armchair anthropologists were most interested in... building on biological theories of evolution advanced
by Charles Darwin and others, these scholars assumed all societies moved from - ANS-✅simple to
complex.
These anthropologists did not talk about different cultures, only the differences in - ANS-✅Culture with
a capital C. In this view, all culture development followed a single path, or line, from simple to complex
The theory of unilinear cultural evolution supports "cultural superiority" - ANS-✅"cultural superiority"
and racism
, "cultural superiority" - ANS-✅the idea that people of one culture are more enlightened, advanced,
civilized, or intelligent than another
racism - ANS-✅the belief that humans are organized into race groupings that are different from another
in intelligence and worth.
historical particularism - ANS-✅argued that each culture is a unique representation of its history and
context
Today, in light of globalization, communication technologies, and urbanization, anthropologists
emphasize the importance of seeing cultures as - ANS-✅complex, with permeable boundaries, instead
of as isolated, bounded entities
cultures can only be understood relative to - ANS-✅the historical, ecological, and social context in which
they developed
Cultural relativism is the view that cultural practices and beliefs are best understood in relation to - ANS-
✅their entire context. A symbol, belief, or behavior or may make little sense or even be offensive when
understood from an outsiders perspective.
Cultural relativism is - ANS-✅distinct from moral relativism or epistemological relativism.
moral relativism is - ANS-✅the idea that something is only right or wrong according to context-specific
criteria. This notion is incompatible with Christian faith and ethics, and also is virtually impossible to put
into practice
, When cultural relativism is not practiced, people typically - ANS-✅use the standards of their own
culture to understand others, which invariably leads to misunderstandings rooted in ethnocentrism
In anthropology, there are three kinds of ethnocentrism: - ANS-✅xenophobia, cultural superiority, and
tacit ethnocentricism
Tacit ethnocentrism is - ANS-✅the assumption that one's own way of life is just normal, not cultural. for
example, when a person does not see anything particularly cultural about liking ice in a glass of water, or
finding a mountain lake beautiful, or wanting a soft bed off the floor
Acknowledging how tacit ethnocentrism plays into our assumptions should - ANS-✅humble us into
acknowledging the strengths and limitations of our vantage point on God's world
Culture is - ANS-✅the total way of life of a group of people that is learned, adaptive, shared, and
integrated
Peoples way of life are adapted to - ANS-✅their environments. Language, values, and behaviors may be
understood as related to their economics, political, geographical, and historical contexts
There is no such thing as , private - ANS-✅an individual culture. There is variation among individuals,
but culture can never be ___________.
The metaphor of culture as conversation captures - ANS-✅the learned, adaptive, shared, and integrated
aspects of the culture concept, while also allowing us to see how it is laden with power relationships and
is open to individual creativity. In culture, as in conversation, there is improvisation and innovation
Without culture, we have - ANS-✅no language, no symbols, no revelation, no community.
Language is - ANS-✅a system of verbal and nonverbal symbols used to communicate"
As with culture, anthropologists ask many questions about language: - ANS-✅"How different are the
various languages of the world?"
"Are some languages more developed or sophisticated or just more suitable for particular activities?"
"How and why do languages change?"
In the late 18th century, Sir William Jones found - ANS-✅the relationship of Sanskrit and classical Greek,
Latin, and modern European languages
linguistic morphology - ANS-✅the patterns and structures of words in a language
A language family is - ANS-✅a group of languages that derives from a common ancestor language. Each
language family traces back to a protolanguage , the ancient language from which all the members of a
particular language family are derived
BASED ACTUAL WITH QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
The truth is that anthropology is - ANS-✅the description, interpretation, and analysis of similarities and
differences in human cultures
The four subfields of anthropology are - ANS-✅Archeology, Physical/ Biological, Linguistics,
Cultural/Social
The primary method of research conducted by cultural anthropologists is - ANS-✅Participant
Observation
A picture of Participant observation would look like - ANS-✅a continuum with full participation at one
end and detached observation at the other.
Cultural anthropology draws together history, economics, politics, religion, family, and psychology, to
understand people's social and cultural lives, it overlaps with serveral disciplines but none more than -
ANS-✅sociology
Historically, sociologists have focused on societies - ANS-✅in the west and used quantitative research
methods
but anthropologists looked at - ANS-✅small societies outside of the west and used qualitative research
methods.
The Gift ( 1925) - ANS-✅Marcel mauss ( 1872- 1950)
The interpretation of culture ( 1973) - ANS-✅Clifford Geetz ( 1926- 2006)
American anthropologist and physician, combine native healing and teaching - ANS-✅Paul Farmer 1959-
fieldwork and participation observation, the sexual life of savages ( 1929) - ANS-✅Bronislaw Malinowski
( 1884-1942)
" social revolution", ancient society ( 1877) - ANS-✅Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818-1881)
Social marxist, Europe and the People Without History - ANS-✅Eric Wolf ( 1923- 1999)
Structuralism, The Savage Mind ( 1962) - ANS-✅Claude Lévi-Strauss ( 1908-2009)
culture and personality, Patterns of Culture ( 1934) - ANS-✅Ruth Benedict ( 1887- 1948)
sexuality, Coming of Age in Samoa ( 1928) - ANS-✅Margaret Mead ( 1901-1978)
Theory of relativism, Race, Language and Culture ( 1940) - ANS-✅Franz Boas
missionary anthropologists and linguists made significant contributions to the discipline from work that
flowed directly from their Christian work in Bible translation and evangelism, even establishing scholarly
journals such as - ANS-✅Anthros and Missiology( formerly known as practical anthropology) with the
express purpose of bringing together anthropology and missiology"
The 'ethnic fair' assumptions about cultures as - ANS-✅neatly bounded highly and homogeneous
entities simply didn't withstand scrutiny
The first anthropologists are now often called - ANS-✅armchair anthropologists for their gathering of
data from travelogues and books rather than from their own direct research.
armchair anthropologists were most interested in... building on biological theories of evolution advanced
by Charles Darwin and others, these scholars assumed all societies moved from - ANS-✅simple to
complex.
These anthropologists did not talk about different cultures, only the differences in - ANS-✅Culture with
a capital C. In this view, all culture development followed a single path, or line, from simple to complex
The theory of unilinear cultural evolution supports "cultural superiority" - ANS-✅"cultural superiority"
and racism
, "cultural superiority" - ANS-✅the idea that people of one culture are more enlightened, advanced,
civilized, or intelligent than another
racism - ANS-✅the belief that humans are organized into race groupings that are different from another
in intelligence and worth.
historical particularism - ANS-✅argued that each culture is a unique representation of its history and
context
Today, in light of globalization, communication technologies, and urbanization, anthropologists
emphasize the importance of seeing cultures as - ANS-✅complex, with permeable boundaries, instead
of as isolated, bounded entities
cultures can only be understood relative to - ANS-✅the historical, ecological, and social context in which
they developed
Cultural relativism is the view that cultural practices and beliefs are best understood in relation to - ANS-
✅their entire context. A symbol, belief, or behavior or may make little sense or even be offensive when
understood from an outsiders perspective.
Cultural relativism is - ANS-✅distinct from moral relativism or epistemological relativism.
moral relativism is - ANS-✅the idea that something is only right or wrong according to context-specific
criteria. This notion is incompatible with Christian faith and ethics, and also is virtually impossible to put
into practice
, When cultural relativism is not practiced, people typically - ANS-✅use the standards of their own
culture to understand others, which invariably leads to misunderstandings rooted in ethnocentrism
In anthropology, there are three kinds of ethnocentrism: - ANS-✅xenophobia, cultural superiority, and
tacit ethnocentricism
Tacit ethnocentrism is - ANS-✅the assumption that one's own way of life is just normal, not cultural. for
example, when a person does not see anything particularly cultural about liking ice in a glass of water, or
finding a mountain lake beautiful, or wanting a soft bed off the floor
Acknowledging how tacit ethnocentrism plays into our assumptions should - ANS-✅humble us into
acknowledging the strengths and limitations of our vantage point on God's world
Culture is - ANS-✅the total way of life of a group of people that is learned, adaptive, shared, and
integrated
Peoples way of life are adapted to - ANS-✅their environments. Language, values, and behaviors may be
understood as related to their economics, political, geographical, and historical contexts
There is no such thing as , private - ANS-✅an individual culture. There is variation among individuals,
but culture can never be ___________.
The metaphor of culture as conversation captures - ANS-✅the learned, adaptive, shared, and integrated
aspects of the culture concept, while also allowing us to see how it is laden with power relationships and
is open to individual creativity. In culture, as in conversation, there is improvisation and innovation
Without culture, we have - ANS-✅no language, no symbols, no revelation, no community.
Language is - ANS-✅a system of verbal and nonverbal symbols used to communicate"
As with culture, anthropologists ask many questions about language: - ANS-✅"How different are the
various languages of the world?"
"Are some languages more developed or sophisticated or just more suitable for particular activities?"
"How and why do languages change?"
In the late 18th century, Sir William Jones found - ANS-✅the relationship of Sanskrit and classical Greek,
Latin, and modern European languages
linguistic morphology - ANS-✅the patterns and structures of words in a language
A language family is - ANS-✅a group of languages that derives from a common ancestor language. Each
language family traces back to a protolanguage , the ancient language from which all the members of a
particular language family are derived
