Deck 1: Introduction to Anthropology

Question 1

Bioanthropologists study modern humans as well as humans in the past just as any if they were any other species of animal.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Applied anthropologists hope to use their research findings to help solve human problems.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The authors of this book take the position that paleoanthropology should be restricted to studying human biology in the past.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Taking an etic perspective, a cultural anthropologist would look at another culture from the perspective of a native.

Question 5

NAGPRA protects both cultural and skeletal finds of Native Americans.

Question 6

Kenyans, like East Asians, are very low in lactose tolerance.

Question 7

In most cases, the accusations of anthropologists behaving unethically were found to be untrue.

Question 8

The excavation of the African Burial Ground in New York City was criticized because skeletons were not kept separate from each other.

Question 9

Another word that describes anthropology as being holistic is unified.

Question 10

New isotope analysis of bones from Stonehenge workers suggests they came from Scotland.

Question 11

The AMA was the first professional organization to pass a code of ethics.

Question 12

The capacity for culture is defined as the biological underpinnings that allow people to have culture.

Question 13

The following are all professionals in subfields of anthropology along with what they study EXCEPT

A) archaeologists reconstruct past cultures of humans
B) bioanthropologists study the evolution of humans as well as modern humans as a biological species
C) paleontologists compare human bones with those of dinosaurs and early birds
D) cultural anthropologists study modern human societies around the world

Question 14

A bioanthropologist might study all of the following topics EXCEPT

A) people's cultural pasts
B) comparative femur bones of prehumans
C) the relationship between Neandertals and modern humans
D) a comparison of lactose tolerance in various populations.

Question 15

Which group is the LEAST lactose tolerant?

A) East Asians
B) Kenyans
C) Swedes
D) English

Question 16

An anthropological linguist would be interested in all but which of these?

A) changes in languages
B) the role of language in everyday speech
C) the biological genetics of speech production
D) a comparison of various languages.

Question 17

The capacity for culture is:

A) learned like the specifics of culture
B) the cognitive, knowledge, part of humanism
C) higher for males than females
D) the biologically based ability to have culture.

Question 18

The first professional group to pass a code of ethics was:

A) the American Anthropological Association
B) the AMA
C) the American Psychological Association
D) the American Association of Sciences

Question 19

A new study of Stonehenge concludes that some of the workers

A) and bluestones may have both come from Wales
B) were born on the seacoast
C) were only 6-8 years old
D) came from the same city in southern England

Question 20

An emic perspective is one where the anthropologist

A) stays outside the group being studied
B) describes the group being studied from his or her own cultural perspective
C) is interested only in the behavior of the group
D) observes and analyzes from the perspective of the group being studied

Question 21

How would you go about doing an emic perspective study of another culture?

Question 22

Differentiate between research oriented and applied anthropology? Can an individual anthropologist do both?

Question 23

What are the usual places that anthropologists would do their research?

Question 24

Discuss three things anthropologists must do when they are involved in fieldwork that are connected to anthropological ethics.

Question 25

Explain to your mother how anthropology is holistic and tell her why it is important to be so.

Question 26

Discuss the recent work at Stonehenge that has both biological and cultural overtones.

Question 27

Summarize the American Anthropological Association's Code of Ethics for both professionals and students taking anthropology classes.