Cultural Anthropology, 19th Edition
by Conrad Kottak All Chapters 1 to 15
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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
1 WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY?
2 CULTURE
3 METHOD AND THEORY IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
4 APPLYING ANTHROPOLOGY
PART 2 APPRECIATING CULTURAL DIVERSITY
5 LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
6 ETHNICITY AND RACE
7 MAKING A LIVING
8 POLITICAL SYSTEMS
9 GENDER
10 FAMILIES, KINSHIP, AND DESCENT
11 MARRIAGE
12 RELIGION
13 ARTS, MEDIA, AND SPORTS
PART 3 THE CHANGING WORLD
14 THE WORLD SYSTEM, COLONIALISM, AND INEQUALITY
15 ANTHROPOLOGY’S ROLE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
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,Answers at the end of each chapter
Chapter 01
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) Anthropology is a uniquely holistic and comparative science.
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2) Holism refers to traditions and customs transmitted through learning.
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3) Food production refers to the cultivation of plants and domestication of animals.
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4) In the discussion of the four types of high-altitude adaptation, "technology" (a
form of adaptation) was considered a "biological" type of adaptation.
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5) The biocultural view studies only the biological sides of humanity.
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6) Paleoecology looks at the ecosystems of the past.
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7) Anthropology is comprised of four subfields.
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8) Ethnography is a key part of biological anthropology.
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9) The practice of "garbology" has been used in the subfield of anthropological archaeology.
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10) A biological anthropologist might study the field known as primatology.
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11) Cultural resource management would not study the impact of pending construction
and its potential effects on an archaeological site.
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12) The interests and methods of anthropology and sociology are now converging.
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13) In the chapter, anthropology is not considered a humanistic science.
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14) A suggested but as yet unverified explanation is called a hypothesis.
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15) Anthropologists study only non-Western cultures.
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