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After the British introduction of cricket to the Trobriand Islands, local changes to the game involved ______ - Answers-Abandoning the white clothing of the British game Cultural Syncretism is - Answers-When distinct aspects of two cultures meet and blend together to make something entirely new Diaspora is - Answers-The movement and settlement of a group of people outside their ancestral homeland Which is NOT a trend on new immigration in the United States and Canada - Answers-Financial...

sciences and the most scientific of the humanities -one must experience another culture to fully understand it -social participation and personal observation within the community -empirical -scientific research conducted within the discipline fieldwork - Answers-to avoid inadvertent bias, anthropologists immerse themselves in data through on location fieldwork.

Anthropologie studies the blank of humanity , past and present and some even theorize about the future - Answers-whole anthropology is blank - Answers-comparative anthropology blanks living creatures living cultures to pass cultures and past cultures to other past cultures - Answers-compares anthropology is also blank - Answers-evolutionary probably the most controversial aspect at this time in this country - Answers-anthropology is evolutionary this class is not trying to change ...

Functionalism - Answers-Theory of society defined by its distinctive view that society is a system of interdependent units and each unit has a function to aid to overall integrity and operation of the system ==> need to look at what creates and sustains structures to make them balanced entities in equilibrium ==> structures exist to keep systems running. Anthropology in/for Biomedicine - Answers-Common model of medical anthropologists employed by health professionals/researchers to unco...

There are six aspects of humanity that together define humans as different from other primates. Of these, which are unique to humans and not found in other primates? - Answers-domestication of plants and animals Through which of the following activities do archaeologists differentiate themselves from other anthropologists? - Answers-studying past human societies by focusing mostly on their material remains What are the four branches of anthropology? - Answers-physical anthropology, archaeo...

Cultural relativism argues that we should seek to - Answers-understand another person's beliefs and behaviors from the perspective of their culture rather than our own. What is the term for the process of participant-observation fieldwork in cultural anthropology? - Answers-Ethnography In cultural anthropology, the term "belief" refers to - Answers-all mental aspects of culture. What do paleoanthropologists study? - Answers-Ancient human relatives

What are mechanisms of cultural change? - Answers-Mechanisms of cultural change are ways that a culture may change over time. There are three mechanisms of cultural change that Kottak discusses in, "Mirror for Humanity". Kottak defines "diffusion" as "direct when two cultures trade with, intermarry among, or wage war on one another". Typically, diffusion is seen when a colonizer forces the colonized to adopt their culture. Acculturation, Kottak defines as "the ongoing exchan...

Holism - Answers-A cultural anthropologist studying the meaning of marriage in a small village in India might consider local gender norms, existing family networks, laws regarding marriage, religious rules, and economic factors. This is an example of The increasing number of razor blades - Answers-Anthony Kwame Harrison argues that anthropology places taken-for-granted notions of progress within the broader context of human culture. What example does he give of a taken-for-granted notion of p...

6. _____ focuses on the study of contemporary cultures, wherever they are found in the world. One part of the task of _____ involves describing particular cultures (ethnography), and the other part involves comparing two or more cultures (ethnology). Cultural anthropologists tend to specialize in areas such as urban anthropology, medical anthroplogy, development anthroplogy, and psychological anthropology, among others... 12. The discipline of _____ helps students develop the skills and compe...

In your own words describe the four major subdivisions of anthropology - Answers-The four major subdivisions of anthropology include biological, cultural, archaeology, and linguistics. Biological anthropology is also referred to as physical anthropology because it focuses on human biology and its interaction with culture and behavior. It is a biological science that deals with the adaptations, variability, and evolution of humans and their past and current relatives. In contrast, cultural anthro...

Culture is: - Answers-(1) learned and shared (2) symbolic and meaningful (3) prescribed and compulsory (4) dynamic and adaptive (5) integrated with daily life The ongoing spread of goods, people, information, and capital around the world is referred to as __________. - Answers-Globalization When a group or society is in contact with a more powerful society, the less powerful group is often obliged to acquire cultural elements from the dominant one. This process of cultural borrowing ...

Which of the following statements about culture are true? (Check all that apply) - Answers-Cultures are dynamic and constantly changing, Common symbols can have different meanings to different individuals and groups in the same culture. Which of the following statements best describes culture? - Answers-Culture teaches us how to satisfy our biological needs Which of the following is the term anthropologists use to describe the process in which a child learns culture? - Answers-enculturatio...

Culture is Symbolic and Material - Answers-Norms, values, symbols, and mental maps of reality are four elements than an anthropologist may consider in attempting to understand the complex working of a culture. These are not universal, they vary from culture to culture. Norms* - Answers-Idea of rules about how people should behave in particular situations or toward certain other people Exogamy, endogamy - Answers-Exogany: marriage outside one's "group" Endogamy: marriage within on...

Society- (9key concepts) - Answers-Society-Society refers to the way in which humans organize themselves in groups and networks. Society is created and sustained by social relationships and institutions. The term "society" can also be used to refer to a human group that exhibits some internal coherence and distinguishes itself from other such groups. Symbolism- (9key concepts) - Answers-Symbolism is the study of the significance that people attach to objects, actions, and processes, cre...

Acculturation is best defined as: - Answers-a process of unequal culture contact when a smaller culture is forced to adopt some of the ways of the dominant society. Which of the following best defines applied anthropology? - Answers-The use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems in communities confronting new challenges "Culture at a distance" is an approach in anthropology that allowed the study of other cultures through all of the following except: - A...

Cross-examination and critique of new theories and data drive discovery in the scientific community. When an anthropologist devises a new theory or approach, colleagues often offer up critiques that help the entire scientific community move forward. Match each anthropological approach to its critique. - Answers-interpretivist approach - ignores power dynamics unilineal cultural evolution - too general and racist structural functionalism - ignores the dynamics of conflict, tension, and chan...

Salvage Paradigm - Answers-The paradigm that holds that its important to observe indigenous ways of life, interview elders, and assemble collections of objects made and used by indigenous people. Cultural Anthropology - Answers-The study of social lives of living communities. Archaelogy Anthropology - Answers-The study of past cultures, by excavating sites where people lived, worked, farmed, or conducted some other activity. Biological Anthropology - Answers-The study of the biological ...

The study of other cultures and other ways of life should lead us to an understanding that - Answers-all cultures have value and none is better than any other Which of the following is not a characteristic aspect of holism? - Answers-It studies how all forms of life are related and evolved out of each other. Although the global scope of anthropological studies has increased during the past century, most recently there has been increased attention on - Answers-urban and industrial societies...

Which of the following things do physical anthropologists study? - Answers-Genetic history- Physical anthropologists definitely study the genetic history of individuals and populations. As you will learn in later chapters, this genetic history is central to understanding how evolution takes place. The origins of language and speech- The origins of language and speech provide us with information about human evolution. The social behavior of nonhuman primates- The social behavior of nonhuman pri...

Biological anthropology - Answers-The study of humans as biological organisms, considered in an evolutionary framework; sometimes called physical anthropology (origin of modern species/biological variation) Hominin - Answers-A member of the primate family Hominidae, distinguished by bipedal posture and, in more recently evolved species, a large brain Adaptation - Answers-A trait that increases the reproductive success of an organism, produced by natural selection in the context of a partic...