GLST 290 Midterm Questions And Answers With Verified Solutions

chapter 1 - "the truth is that cultural anthropology is the ____(1)______, interpretation, and _____(2)_____ of similarities and differences in human cultures." - (1)description (2)analysis what is definition of cultural anthropology? - the truth is that cultural anthropology is the description, interpretation, and analysis of similarities and differences in human cultures. what are the 4 subfield of anthropology? - archaeology cultural/social physical/biological linguistics what is physical and biological anthropology? - involves the study of human anatomy, nonhuman primates, and human origins What is linguistic anthropology? - the study of human languages What is archeology anthropology? - the study of material artifacts to understand a peoples culture or society what is the primary method of research conducted by cultural anthropologist is__________. - ethnography what is ethnography? - a type of research in which individuals are observed in their natural settings"because cultural anthropology draws together ___(1)_____, ____(2)___, ___(3)______,____(4)_____,_____(5)_____, and ___(6)___ to understand people's social and cultural lives, it overlaps with several disciplines, but none more than _____(7)______. - (1) history (2) economics (3) family (4) politics (5) religion (6) psycology (7) sociology *know who was Margaret Mead? - () - sexuality - Coming of Age in Samoa who was Franz Boas? - Father of American Anthropology - theory of relativism - culture is invaluable - Race, Language, and Culture who was Clifford Geertz? - - symbolism who is Ruth Benedict? - "Later missionary anthropologists and linguists made significant contributions to the discipline from work that flowed directly from their ______(1)_______ work in Bible translation and evangelism, even establishing scholarly journals such as ______(2)______ and ______(3)______ (formerly known as Practical Anthropology) with the express purpose of bringing together anthropology and missiology" - (1) Christian (2) Anthropos (3) Missionologychapter 2 - "The ethnic fair assumptions about cultures as _____(1)____ bounded and _____(2)______ homogenous entities simply didn't with stand scrutiny" - (1) neatly (2) highly "These first anthropologists are now often called ___________ ___________." - armchair anthropologist What is an armchair anthropologist? - gathering data from travelogues and books rather than own direct research - explain why groups were so different from one another who advanced biological theories of evolution? - Charles Darwin other scholars assume all societies moved from _________ to ________ forms in progressive evolutionary stages. - simple to complex anthropologist did not talk about different ______(1)_______ only the differences in Culture with a capital . in this view all cultural development followed a ____(2)____ path, or line from simple to complex. - (1) cultures (2) single the theory of unilinear cultural evolution supports "cultural superiority the idea that people of one culture are more ___(1)________, ___(2)______, _____(3)_____, or ___(4)_____ than another and ____(5)_____, the brief that humans are organized into race groupings that are different from one another in ___(6)_______ and ___(7)______" - (1) enlightened (2) advanced (3) civilized (4) intelligent(5) racism (6)intelligence (7)worth