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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE NINTH EDITION
Raymond Scupin Lindenwood University
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Introduction to Anthropology
1
Chapter 2 Human Evolution
14
Chapter 3 Culture
26
Chapter 4 The Process of Enculturation: Psychological and Cognitive Anthropology
39
Chapter 5 Language
52
Chapter 6 Anthropological Explanations
65
Chapter 7 Analyzing Sociocultural Systems
79
Chapter 8 Environment, Subsistence, and Demography
92
Chapter 9 Technology and Economies
105
Chapter 10 Social Structure, the Family, Gender, and Age
118
Chapter 11 Politics, Warfare, and Law
132
Chapter 12 Religion and Aesthetics
145
Chapter 13 Globalization, Culture, and Indigenous Societies
158
Chapter 14 Globalization in Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean
171
Chapter 15 Globalization in the Middle East and Asia
184
Chapter 16 Ethnicity
197
Chapter 17 Contemporary Global Trends
210
Chapter 18 Applied Anthropology
223
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY True-False Questions 1.
Although anthropologists study the unique features of diverse cultures, they also recognize the fundamental similarities among all peoples in the world. Answer: T Topic: Introduction Learning Objective: n/a Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Easy 2.
Anthropology courses are more relevant to students interested in obtaining degrees in business than those pursuing careers in education. Answer: F Topic: Why Study Anthropology? Learning Objective: LO 1.5 Describe why any student should study anthropology. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Easy 3.
Biological anthropologists focus their research in two areas: human evolution and modern human variation. Answer: T Topic: Anthropology: The Four Subfields Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology. Skill Level: Remember the Facts Difficulty Level: Easy 4.
Primatology, the study of nonhuman primates, is a specialization within biological anthropology that contributes to our knowledge of human evolution. Answer: T Topic: Anthropology: The Four Subfields Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Moderate 5. Archaeologists spend more time digging up garbage than digging up treasure. Answer: T Topic: Anthropology: The Four Subfields Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Easy 6.
Linguistic anthropologists are concerned with discovering how sites and middens are formed and what can be learned from studying these ancient structures. Answer: F Topic: Anthropology: The Four Subfields Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology.
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Skill Level: Remember the Facts Difficulty Level: Easy 7.
The study of life at plantations in the southern United States would be called “classical archaeology.” Answer: F Topic: Anthropology: The Four Subfields Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology. Skill Level: Remember the Facts Difficulty Level: Moderate 8. Scientists hope to uncover universals of cultural behavior through the Genographic Project. Answer: F Topic: Anthropology: The Four Subfields Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Moderate 9.
Applied research in anthropology involves using the research methods and findings developed in basic research to solve human problems and fulfill the perceived needs of various societies. Answer: T Topic: Anthropology: The Four Subfields Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Easy 10. Cultural anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies contemporary societies throughout the world in an attempt to understand human diversity and discover similarities. Answer: T Topic: Anthropology: The Four Subfields Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology. Skill Level: Remember the Facts Difficulty Level: Easy 11. Anthropological scientific knowledge is absolute, complete, and usually the final truth. Answer: F Topic: Anthropological Explanations Learning Objective: LO 1.3 Explain how the scientific method is used in anthropological explanations. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Easy 12. An ethnography is a written description of a society, while ethnology is a process of determining cross-cultural generalizations. Answer: T Topic: Anthropology: The Four Subfields Learning Objective: LO 1.1 Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology. Skill Level: Remember the Facts Difficulty Level: Easy
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13. The holistic approach is used by anthropologists to find out if there are any missing pieces to a scientific puzzle or problem they are exploring—that is, if there are any “holes in the argument.” Answer: F Topic: Holistic Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Research, and the Global Perspective Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Describe how the field of anthropology is holistic, interdisciplinary, and global. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Easy 14. Cultural anthropologists, unlike sociologists, do not use statistics to analyze social behavior. Answer: F Topic: Holistic Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Research, and the Global Perspective Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Describe how the field of anthropology is holistic, interdisciplinary, and global. Skill Level: Remember the Facts Difficulty Level: Easy 15. Anthropology, a scientific discipline, has no relationship with history, a humanistic discipline. Answer: F Topic: Holistic Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Research, and the Global Perspective Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Describe how the field of anthropology is holistic, interdisciplinary, and global. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Easy 16. Because of the methods they use, anthropologists avoid interpreting their research results from a global perspective. Answer: F Topic: Holistic Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Research, and the Global Perspective Learning Objective: LO 1.2 Describe how the field of anthropology is holistic, interdisciplinary, and global. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Easy 17. Anthropologists have found that culturally constituted knowledge is general, universal, and genetic. Answer: F Topic: Anthropological Explanations Learning Objective: LO 1.3 Explain how the scientific method is used in anthropological explanations. Skill Level: Understand the Concepts Difficulty Level: Moderate 18. Inductive reasoning takes general statements and develops specific facts. Answer: F Topic: Anthropological Explanations Learning Objective: LO 1.3 Explain how the scientific method is used in anthropological explanations. Skill Level: Remember the Facts 3 .