Anthropology is practiced in

A. a corporate office building.

B.  a Mesopotamian tomb.

C.  a North American shopping mall.

D.  an inner city classroom

E.  all of these places

E.  all of these places

Ethnology

A.  provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture.

B.  reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behaviors.

C.  examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of other      anthropological studies.

D.  is a systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims–

     through experiment, observation, and deduction-to produce

     reliable explanations of phenomena.

E.  refers to the application of anthropological data, perspectives,

     theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary

     social problems.

Ethnology

C. examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of other anthropological studies.

Which of the following terms refers to an interest in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture?

A.  holism

B.  anthropology

C.  ethnology

D.  ethnography

E.  theory

A.  holism

Anthropology has strong links to all of the following academic fields except

A.  history

B.  zoology

C.  economics

D.  physics

E.  sociology

D.  physics

The academic discipline of anthropology, also known as general anthropology or "four-field" anthropology, includes four main subdisciplines or subfields. They are

A.  holistic, medical, forensic, and language anthropology.

B.  sociocultural, medical, linguistic, and historical anthropology.

C.  archaeological, biological, holistic, and feminist anthropology.

D.  sociocultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology.

E.  linguistic, medical, historical, and native anthropology.

D. sociocultural, archaeological, biological, and

linguistic anthropology.

Archaeological anthropologists traditionally study all of the following except

A.  trash.

B.  fragments of pottery.

C.  plant remains.

D.  asteroids.

E.  stone tools.

D. asteroids.

Anthropology is not

A.  a field of science.

B.  a field of the humanities.

C.  a field of social science.

D.  a field with a narrow set of research questions.

E.  related to sociology.

D. a field with a narrow set of research questions.

Traditionally, anthropologists would be least interested in

  A. cultural changes over time.

  B. Third World subsistence strategies.

  C. art consumption by the elite in modern societies.

  D. diversity among cultures.

  E.  the link between nature and nurture.

B. Third World subsistence strategies.

Which of the following is a historical reason for the inclusion of four subfields in the single discipline of general anthropology?

A. General anthropology became too broad a discipline by the early 1900s and had to be broken down into subdisciplines.

  B. In France, where general anthropology originated, scholars were interested in the relation between mind and body.

  C. Particularly in the case of American anthropology, interest in the origins and diversity of Native Americans brought together studies of customs, social life, language, and physical traits.

  D. The major American universities of the mid-19th century encouraged interdisciplinary dialogue, thus stimulating a more holistic approach to the study of the human condition, past and present.

  E. Particularly in Germany, where the four-field approach originated, the government encouraged a holistic approach to the human condition so that this knowledge could help improve the effectiveness of social programs.

D. The major American universities of the mid-19th century encouraged interdisciplinary dialogue, thus stimulating a more holistic approach to the study of the human condition, past and present.

Children learn cultural traditions by growing up in a particular society through a process called

  A. adaptation.

  B. invention.

  C. investment.

  D. enculturation.

  E. development.

D. enculturation.

Ethnography

  A. examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of other anthropological studies.

  B. provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture.

  C. reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behaviors.

  D. refers to the application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems.

  E. is a systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims through experiment, observation, and deduction to produce reliable explanations of phenomena.

 B. provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture.

Biological anthropology is most concerned with all of the following except

  A. human growth and development.

  B. biology, evolution, behavior, and social life of primates.

  C. human genetics.

  D. human diversity as revealed by material culture.

  E. the behavior of primates.

C. human genetics.

Which is not true about culture?

  A. Culture is a key aspect of human adaptability and success.

  B. Culture is transmitted through our genes.

  C. Cultural forces consistently mold and shape human biology and    behavior.

  D. Culture guides the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them.

  E. Culture is passed on from generation to generation.  

B. Culture is transmitted through our genes.

The field that investigates the relationships between social and linguistic variation is

  A. medical anthropology.

  B. physical anthropology.

  C. ethnology.

  D. sociolinguistics.

  E. applied anthropology.  

D. sociolinguistics.

What term refers to an explanatory framework that helps us understand why something exists?

  A. a model

  B. a theory

  C. a synthesis

  D. a symbiosis

  E. a hypothesis   

B. a theory