Question 1

An emphasis on the way that people deal with artifacts in their everyday lives as biocultural human organisms focuses our attention on

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A)   Primatology.
B)   Paleoanthropology.
C)   Material culture.
D)   Applied culture.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 2

To say that anthropology is comparative means that

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A)   Each anthropologist studies many different societies and cultures during his or her career.
B)   Anthropological generalizations must draw on evidence from many different societies and cultures.
C)   Anthropologists use data from many different academic fields of study when they do their research.
D)   There is no one way for an anthropologist to do research.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 3

To say that anthropology is a field-based discipline means that

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A)   Information about particular social groups comes through direct contact with them.
B)   Anthropology is based on experience with other ways of life.
C)   The experience of being in the field is central to modern anthropology.
D)   All of the above are true.E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

Linking questions of human health and illness in local settings to social, economic, and political processes operating on a global level is characteristic of

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A)   The "new" biological anthropology.
B)   Applied ethnology.
C)   Critical medical anthropology.
D)   World system medical anthropology.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

Holism in anthropology is defined in the text as

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A)   Trying to study everything possible about a people during the course of a research trip.
B)   Integrating what is known about human beings and their activities at an inclusive level.
C)   Studying human biology and culture at the same time.
D)   Fitting together economics, political science, religious studies, and biology.E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 6

The subfield of anthropology that is concerned with proposing solutions to practical problems is called

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A)   Applied anthropology.
B)   Biological anthropology.
C)   Cultural anthropology.
D)   Linguistic anthropology.E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 7

To cultural anthropologists, informants are people who

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A)   Are willing to share secrets about the lives of others in their community.
B)   Read the books and articles that cultural anthropologists write.
C)   Share information about their culture and language with anthropologists.
D)   Serve as research subjects.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 8

Biological anthropologists who study chimpanzees are likely to be

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A)   Cultural anthropologists.
B)   Medical anthropologists.
C)   Paleoanthropologists.
D)   Primatologists.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 9

In the textbook, anthropology is defined as the study of

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A)   Human nature, human society, and the human past.
B)   The remains of earlier societies and peoples.
C)   The ways of life of contemporary peoples.
D)   The physical and mental capacities of human beings.E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 10

The branch of anthropology that is concerned with discovering what makes human beings different from other living organisms and what human beings share with other members of the animal kingdom is called

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A)   Applied anthropology.
B)   Archaeology.
C)   Biological anthropology.
D)   Cultural anthropology.E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 11

A contemporary biological anthropologist is likely to study

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A)   The relationship of nutrition and physical development.
B)   Nonhuman primates.
C)   Human origins.
D)   Any of the above.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT a major subfield of North American anthropology?

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A)   Archaeology.
B)   Cultural anthropology.
C)   Biological anthropology.
D)   Physiological anthropology.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 13

An anthropologist who studies the environmental features that affect human well-being would probably be called a(n)

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A)   Archaeologist.
B)   Linguistic anthropologist.
C)   Medical anthropologist.
D)   Primatologist.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 14

To claim that members of a particular social group do not typically eat insects because they have learned to label insects as inedible is to use an explanation based on

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A)   Culture.
B)   Biology.
C)   Ethnocentrism.
D)   Genetic programming.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 15

In a world in which people from different cultural backgrounds come into contact with one another for extended periods, anthropology offers a

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A)   Solution to cultural misunderstandings.
B)   Means of learning to cope with cultural differences.
C)   Way of determining which cultural background is better under the circumstances.
D)   Set of techniques for removing cultural barriers.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 16

The major specialty within anthropology that involves the analysis of the material remains of the human past is

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A)   Applied anthropology.
B)   Archaeology.
C)   Biological anthropology.
D)   Cultural anthropology.E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 17

A study that examines how economics, politics, religion, and kinship shape one another in a specific society would be

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A)   Detailed.
B)   Cultural.
C)   Holistic.
D)   Comparative.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 18

When anthropologists say that human beings are biocultural organisms, they mean that

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A)   The goal of their research is to identify the genes that cause human cultural behavior.
B)   Human biology and culture both contribute to human behavior.
C)   Culture has replaced biology in human evolution.
D)   Human biology precedes culture in understanding human behavior.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 19

What does it mean when anthropologists claim that their discipline is holistic, comparative, and evolutionary?

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Question 20

The major specialty within anthropology that uses information gathered from the other subfields in an effort to solve practical cross-cultural problems is

Accepted Answer

A)   Applied anthropology.
B)   Archaeology.
C)   Biological anthropology.
D)   Cultural anthropology.E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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