Anthropology Midterm (Kottak)
comprehensive Questions and Answers
with Verified Solutions
Question 1:
People share society- organized life groups- with other animals, including
baboons, wolves, mole rats, and even ants
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 2:
Cultures form and guide the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed
to them. This includes customs and opinions developed over the
generations about proper and improper behavior.
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 3:
Culture is LEARNING not BIOLOGICAL, but it does rest on certain
features of human biology
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 4:
Examples of biological capacities that culture depends on is 1. ability to
learn 2. think symbolically 3. use language 4. to make and use tools
Answer:
chapter 1
,Question 5:
Adaptation
Answer:
Process in which an organism copes with environmental forces and
stresses (chapter 1)
Question 6:
Technology- Culture Larger barrel chest of highlanders- biological Better
respiratory system for thin air- biological Increased heart rate and
sweating- biological
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 7:
The origin of Anthropology can be traced back to 19th century. Early
American Anthropologist were concerned especially with the history and
cultures of
Answer:
chapter 1
Question 8:
Another reason for the four subfields is the interest in relation between
biology (race) and culture. More than sixty years ago Ruth Benedict said,
"in World history, those who have helped build the same culture are not
necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all
participated in one culture"
Answer:
Chapter 1
, Question 9:
local behavior, beliefs, customs, social lie, economic activities, politics,
and religion are exposed to and influenced by external forces and events
Answer:
chapter 1
Question 10:
Ethnology examines, interprets, and analyzes the results of ethnography-
the data gathered in different societies.
Answer:
chapter 1
Question 11:
Archaeological Anthropology reconstructs, describes, and interprets
human behavior and cultural patterns through material remains
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 12:
wild and domesticated grains have different characteristics, which allow
archaeologist to distinguish between gathering and cultivation; animal
bones reveals the ages of slaughtered animals and if they were wild or
domesticated
Answer:
Chapter 1
comprehensive Questions and Answers
with Verified Solutions
Question 1:
People share society- organized life groups- with other animals, including
baboons, wolves, mole rats, and even ants
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 2:
Cultures form and guide the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed
to them. This includes customs and opinions developed over the
generations about proper and improper behavior.
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 3:
Culture is LEARNING not BIOLOGICAL, but it does rest on certain
features of human biology
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 4:
Examples of biological capacities that culture depends on is 1. ability to
learn 2. think symbolically 3. use language 4. to make and use tools
Answer:
chapter 1
,Question 5:
Adaptation
Answer:
Process in which an organism copes with environmental forces and
stresses (chapter 1)
Question 6:
Technology- Culture Larger barrel chest of highlanders- biological Better
respiratory system for thin air- biological Increased heart rate and
sweating- biological
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 7:
The origin of Anthropology can be traced back to 19th century. Early
American Anthropologist were concerned especially with the history and
cultures of
Answer:
chapter 1
Question 8:
Another reason for the four subfields is the interest in relation between
biology (race) and culture. More than sixty years ago Ruth Benedict said,
"in World history, those who have helped build the same culture are not
necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all
participated in one culture"
Answer:
Chapter 1
, Question 9:
local behavior, beliefs, customs, social lie, economic activities, politics,
and religion are exposed to and influenced by external forces and events
Answer:
chapter 1
Question 10:
Ethnology examines, interprets, and analyzes the results of ethnography-
the data gathered in different societies.
Answer:
chapter 1
Question 11:
Archaeological Anthropology reconstructs, describes, and interprets
human behavior and cultural patterns through material remains
Answer:
Chapter 1
Question 12:
wild and domesticated grains have different characteristics, which allow
archaeologist to distinguish between gathering and cultivation; animal
bones reveals the ages of slaughtered animals and if they were wild or
domesticated
Answer:
Chapter 1
