Ucla anthropology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

bioethics correct answer: The study of ethics related to issues that arise in health care. ethics correct answer: sustained and intentional reflection on morality and the moral life with analysis, discontent, reasoning, and arguments moral rules or principles of behavior that should guide members of a profession or organization and make them deal honestly and fairly with each other and with their custom utilitarianism correct answer: 1 fundamental moral good-to maximize outcomes of "...

UCLA Anthropology 1 Midterm 1 Exam Questions And Answers Rosalind Franklin - ANS produced x-ray photographs of DNA which help to uncover the structure Anaximander - ANS speculated that living beings arose gradually from water and suggested that men originated from animals Aristotle - ANS believed that species and the universe are fixed and determined and living species don't go extinct or evolve Great Chain of Being - ANS scale of more complex organisms better than oth...

UCLA Anthropology 4 midterm Exam Questions and Answers

Anthropology - Ans The study of human culture in all of its aspects and through all time periods What are the four fields of anthropology? - Ans 1. Cultural anthropology 2. Linguistic anthropology 3. Biological Anthropology 4. Archaeology Cultural anthropology - Ans The study of living humans Linguistic anthropology - Ans The study of the physical, cognitive, and social aspects of language Biological Anthropology - Ans The study of human evolution, non-human primates, and the physical bo...

UCLA Anthropology 1 Midterm 1 Exam/126 Questions and answers

What are the three language properties? - Ans 1) Language is a code for representing experience 2) Language is a form of social organization 3) Language is a system of differentiation What does Duranti's concept of "ontological commitment" state? - Ans that language is never neutral or a means of communication in the sense that it is always viewed with people's interest and power because it is always socially charged, loaded with issues of race, class, citizenship and other forms of s...

What are the three language properties? - Ans 1) Language is a code for representing experience 2) Language is a form of social organization 3) Language is a system of differentiation What does Duranti's concept of "ontological commitment" state? - Ans that language is never neutral or a means of communication in the sense that it is always viewed with people's interest and power because it is always socially charged, loaded with issues of race, class, citizenship and other forms of s...

UCLA Anthropology 4 midterm

Rosalind Franklin - Ans produced x-ray photographs of DNA which help to uncover the structure Anaximander - Ans speculated that living beings arose gradually from water and suggested that men originated from animals Aristotle - Ans believed that species and the universe are fixed and determined and living species don't go extinct or evolve

Uruk - Ans Mesopotamian city; ritual activity; temple mounds bc temple got added to as time went by; 400 Hectares (huge excavation that takes lots of people and time to do) Nippur - Ans Mesopotamian city; map-making on clay tablets Why is it hard to excavate in mesopotamia - Ans political situation; such a large area takes a lot of archaeologists