Anthropology Final Exam Questions
and Answers | New One | Grade A+
The idea among Native Americans of the southeastern United States that the cosmos consists
of three, inter-connected worlds is an example of?
Ans: How religion provides a worldview
_____ is an example of applied anthropology.
Ans: All of the above (Corporate, Medical, Forensic, Cultural resources management.)
What famous person's mother was/in an anthropologist?
Ans: Barack Obama
Which of the following is NOT a place where written language was created independently?
Ans: Egypt
In the article, Shakespeare and the Bush, the anthropologist is collecting her data by using the
techniques of?
Ans: Participant-observation
,_____ are cultural guidelines about what is appropriate behavior in a given society.
Ans: Norms
The earliest form of written language, which used a series of wedge-shaped marks to convey
text, is called?
Ans: Cuneiform
Which of the following is an attribute of anthropology?
Ans: All of the above (Studies humans, focuses on culture, based on fieldwork, holistic in
perspective.)
Culture includes _____.
Ans: All of the above (Knowledge to operate efficiently in an environment, ideas about what
is acceptable behavior, material culture, norms.)
_____ anthropologists recover human remains from crime scenes, disasters, and massacres.
Ans: Forensic
Holism in anthropology refers to the discipline's _____.
, Ans: Attempt to understand the entire human experience
Primatologists have discovered that among bonobos, sex is _____.
Ans: All of the above (Used as a strategy for making alliances, separate from reproduction,
used as a way to diffuse tension in the group.)
Data in anthropological research were most likely collected from ____.
Ans: Observations of what people do in their natural context
Many anthropologists relate the origins of culture to the appearance of _____.
Ans: Symbolic communication
A four-field approach to anthropology developed in the U.S. during the 1800s as a result of
____.
Ans: The documentation of the Native American cultures that were being destroyed
Numerous societies around the world turned to _____ as ways to deal with the massive
outside encroachment brought about by colonialism.
Ans: Revitalization movements
and Answers | New One | Grade A+
The idea among Native Americans of the southeastern United States that the cosmos consists
of three, inter-connected worlds is an example of?
Ans: How religion provides a worldview
_____ is an example of applied anthropology.
Ans: All of the above (Corporate, Medical, Forensic, Cultural resources management.)
What famous person's mother was/in an anthropologist?
Ans: Barack Obama
Which of the following is NOT a place where written language was created independently?
Ans: Egypt
In the article, Shakespeare and the Bush, the anthropologist is collecting her data by using the
techniques of?
Ans: Participant-observation
,_____ are cultural guidelines about what is appropriate behavior in a given society.
Ans: Norms
The earliest form of written language, which used a series of wedge-shaped marks to convey
text, is called?
Ans: Cuneiform
Which of the following is an attribute of anthropology?
Ans: All of the above (Studies humans, focuses on culture, based on fieldwork, holistic in
perspective.)
Culture includes _____.
Ans: All of the above (Knowledge to operate efficiently in an environment, ideas about what
is acceptable behavior, material culture, norms.)
_____ anthropologists recover human remains from crime scenes, disasters, and massacres.
Ans: Forensic
Holism in anthropology refers to the discipline's _____.
, Ans: Attempt to understand the entire human experience
Primatologists have discovered that among bonobos, sex is _____.
Ans: All of the above (Used as a strategy for making alliances, separate from reproduction,
used as a way to diffuse tension in the group.)
Data in anthropological research were most likely collected from ____.
Ans: Observations of what people do in their natural context
Many anthropologists relate the origins of culture to the appearance of _____.
Ans: Symbolic communication
A four-field approach to anthropology developed in the U.S. during the 1800s as a result of
____.
Ans: The documentation of the Native American cultures that were being destroyed
Numerous societies around the world turned to _____ as ways to deal with the massive
outside encroachment brought about by colonialism.
Ans: Revitalization movements
