ANTH-1210-D01 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM
STUDY SET with complete solutions
Which of the following is true of the relativistic view of culture?
A) It allows us to understand our concerns and to view our own culture from a
narrower perspective.
B) It allows us to understand other people's concerns and to view our own culture
from a broader perspective.
C) We realize that we can judge other species using human criteria.
D) It allows us to recognize the superiority of humans over other species.
E) We can better appreciate the importance of our own culture. - correct answer
✔✔B) It allows us to understand other people's concerns and to view our own
culture from a broader perspective.
The anthropological perspective proposes to broaden our viewpoint though time
and space.
A) True
B) False - correct answer ✔✔A)True
The practice of understanding and evaluating a custom in the context of the
meaning system and morality of the culture in which it is present is called:
A) ethnography
B) cultural ecology
C) the etic approach
D) ethnocentrism
, E) cultural relativism - correct answer ✔✔E)cultural relativism
________ is the subdiscipline of osteology that is concerned with disease and
trauma in earlier populations.
A) Forensic anthropology
B) Primatology
C) Anthropometry
D) Paleoanthropology
E) Paleopathology - correct answer ✔✔E) Paleopathology
Primatology is the study of
A) human evolution
B) human skeletal material
C) skeletal remains at crime scenes
D) disease in earlier human groups
E) living nonhuman primates - correct answer ✔✔E)living nonhuman primates
_______ focuses on the study of skeletal remains from archaeological sites.
A) osteology
B) bioarchaeology
C) paleopathology
D) forensic anthropology
E) primate paleontology - correct answer ✔✔B)bioarchaeology
Ethnographies
STUDY SET with complete solutions
Which of the following is true of the relativistic view of culture?
A) It allows us to understand our concerns and to view our own culture from a
narrower perspective.
B) It allows us to understand other people's concerns and to view our own culture
from a broader perspective.
C) We realize that we can judge other species using human criteria.
D) It allows us to recognize the superiority of humans over other species.
E) We can better appreciate the importance of our own culture. - correct answer
✔✔B) It allows us to understand other people's concerns and to view our own
culture from a broader perspective.
The anthropological perspective proposes to broaden our viewpoint though time
and space.
A) True
B) False - correct answer ✔✔A)True
The practice of understanding and evaluating a custom in the context of the
meaning system and morality of the culture in which it is present is called:
A) ethnography
B) cultural ecology
C) the etic approach
D) ethnocentrism
, E) cultural relativism - correct answer ✔✔E)cultural relativism
________ is the subdiscipline of osteology that is concerned with disease and
trauma in earlier populations.
A) Forensic anthropology
B) Primatology
C) Anthropometry
D) Paleoanthropology
E) Paleopathology - correct answer ✔✔E) Paleopathology
Primatology is the study of
A) human evolution
B) human skeletal material
C) skeletal remains at crime scenes
D) disease in earlier human groups
E) living nonhuman primates - correct answer ✔✔E)living nonhuman primates
_______ focuses on the study of skeletal remains from archaeological sites.
A) osteology
B) bioarchaeology
C) paleopathology
D) forensic anthropology
E) primate paleontology - correct answer ✔✔B)bioarchaeology
Ethnographies
