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Anthropology What Does It Mean to Be Human? Second Canadian Edition by Robert
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H. Lavenda
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CHAPTER 1 x



WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY? x x




MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS x x




1. In the textbook, "anthropology" is defined as the study of
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a) human nature, human society, human language, and the human past
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b) the remains of earlier societies and peoples
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c) the ways of life of contemporary peoples
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d) the physical and mental capacities of human beings
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2. The authors define "holism" as
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a) trying to study everything possible about a group of people
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b) integrating what is known about human beings and their activities
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c) studying human biology and culture at the same time
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d) fitting together economics, political science, religious studies, and biology
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3. To say that anthropology is comparative means that
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a) each anthropologist studies many different societies during his or her career
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b) anthropological generalizations draw on evidence from the widest possible range of societies
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c) anthropologists use data from many different academic disciplines x x x x x x x


d) there is no one way for the anthropologist to do research
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4. is NOT listed in the text as an element of the anthropological perspective.
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a) Holism
b) Comparison
c) Evolution
d) Culturalism

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study examines how economics, politics, religion, and kinship shape one another in a specific society.
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a) detailed
b) cultural
c) holistic
d) comparative

6. An anthropologist studying a social group observes that people shake hands when greeting one another and
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concludes that handshaking is universal among humans. This study is faulty because it was not
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a) holistic
b) evolutionary
c) ethnocentric
d) comparative

7. When we say that anthropology is a field-based discipline, we mean that
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a) information about particular social groups comes through direct contact with them
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b) anthropologists working in universities intersperse teaching and other tasks with field research
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c) research connects anthropologists directly with the lived experiences of other people and to the material ev
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idence that people have left
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d) All of the above
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8. According to the text, culture consists of . x x x x x x x


a) sets of learned behaviours and ideas that humans acquire as members of society
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b) elements of human experience that require education and good taste, such as fine art, classical music, and lite
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rature
c) sets of innate behaviours that enable humans to function in a complex world
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d) those practices that distinguish one group of humans from another
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9. North Americans typically do not eat insects because they have learned to label insects as inedible. This ex
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planation is based on x . x x x


a) culture
b) biology
c) ethnocentrism
d) genetic programming x




10. When we state that humans are biocultural organisms, we mean that
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a) human biology makes culture possible, and human culture makes human biological survival possible
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b) biology is more important than culture for humans
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c) human culture predates our biological organism
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d) humans evolved independently of our ability to create culture
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11. Traditionally, North American anthropology has been divided into x x x x x x x x subfields.
a) two
b) three
c) four
d) five

12. According to the text, x x x x is NOT a major subfield of North American anthropology.
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a) Archaeology
b) Cultural anthropology x


c) Biological anthropology x


d) Physiological anthropology x




13. The following statement is NOT associated with the traditional North American model of anthropology:
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a) This configuration reflects anthropology's commitment to holism.
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b) This configuration is associated with anthropology's successful fight against 19th century scientific racism.
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c) This configuration constitutes a protected "trading zone" within which fresh concepts and knowledge from a va
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riety of research traditions are brought together.
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d) This model is widespread in Europe and other parts of the world.
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14. Social groupings that allegedly reflect biological differences are called
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a) populations
b) cultures
c) races
d) ethnicities

15. Nineteenth-century attempts to group all humans into unambiguous categories called "races" were based on x x x x x x x x x x x x x


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a) observable physical features, such as skin color, hair type, and skull shape
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b) supposed mental and moral attributes x x x x


c) existing beliefs about the inherent biological superiority of some races and the inferiority of others
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d) All of the above
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16. Michel Bouchard's research on status and stigma among French-speakers in Alberta shows that
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a) young children know which language is dominant
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b) French is spoken only by people who have recently arrived in Alberta from Quebec
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c) French-speaking children in Alberta believe that they belong to a high-status-group x x x x x x x x x x


d) media campaigns can reduce the stigma felt by linguistic minorities
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17. By the early twentieth century, some anthropologists and biologists concluded that the concept of "race" was
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a) justified by the increasingly scientific biological research on humans
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b) a cultural label invented by humans to sort people into groups
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c) a political liability, although the evidence was increasingly strong in its favor
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d) a label that recognized important cultural and biological differences between groups
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18. After discrediting scientific racism and moving away from the classification of humans into distinct races, bi
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ological anthropologists shifted their attention to
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a) patterns of variation and adaptation within the human species as a whole
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b) the material remains of the human past
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c) present-day social arrangements in human groups x x x x x


d) human symbolic communication x x




19. refers to the systematic oppression of members of one or more socially defined "races" by members of
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another socially defined "race" that is justified in terms of the supposed inherent biological superiority of the rulers
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and the supposed inherent biological inferiority of those they rule.
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a) Ethnocentrism
b) Hierarchy
c) Racism
d) Hegemony

20. Primatologists are biological anthropologists who study x x x x x x .
a) the closest living relatives of humans
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