Question 1

__________ refers to the process by which one culture dominates another.

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Question 2

What is applied anthropology and what are two examples of it?

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Question 3

Excessive daytime sleepiness is correlated with decreased worker productivity in the country of __________.

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Question 4

Malinowski's approach, known as __________, considers how particular parts of culture contribute to the operation of the whole.

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Question 5

The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss is associated with the theoretical perspective __________.

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Question 6

In a cultural materialist framework, the mental aspects of culture are referred to as __________.

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Question 7

__________ refers to the approach that seeks to explain why people do and think what they do by considering biological factors such as people's genes and hormones.

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Question 8

"Race", age, gender, and class are examples of a basis for __________ formation.

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Question 9

The theoretical approach which is the view that powerful structures such as economics, politics, and media shape cultures and create entrenched systems of inequality and oppression is referred to in the textbook as __________.

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Question 10

Franz Boas promoted the theoretical approach referred to as __________, which is the view that individual cultures must be studied and described in their own terms.

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Question 11

Judging other people's cultures on the basis of one's own culture is called __________.

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Question 12

What does the theory of agency emphasize; provide an example.

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Question 13

In the framework of cultural materialism, the most basic aspect of culture is __________.

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Question 14

Interpretive anthropology and "thick description" are mainly associated with a cultural anthropologist named __________.

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Question 15

State the overall goal

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Question 16

Describe and discuss two of the three major debates in cultural anthropology.

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Question 17

Contrast cultural materialism with interpretivism in terms of their theoretical position, definition of culture, and methods.

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Question 18

Examining anthropology's historical connections with racism, increasing racial diversity in academia, and teaching about racism are examples of steps proposed to move anthropology to being __________ anthropology.

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Question 19

How has theory in cultural anthropology changed since the late nineteenth century?

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Question 20

Early forms of an organism evolve into later forms through the process of natural selection is the concept of __________ evolution.

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Quiz 1: Anthropology and the Study of Culture