Who is an example of an armchair anthropologist?
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Malinowski, Benedict, Frazer, Boas
Answer: Frazer
As explained in our text, who defined culture as a “complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”?
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Geertz, Mead, Tylor, Frazer
Answer: Tylor
In the famous story, Gulliver’s Travels (written by Jonathan Swift), who is viewed as the ‘Other’?
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Both Gulliver and the Lilliputians see each other as the Other, The Lilliputians look at sea monsters as the Other, Gulliver sees his own countrymen as the Other
Answer: Both Gulliver and the Lilliputians see each other as the Other
As explained in our text, who defined culture as an “historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms…”?
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Mead, Geertz, Boas, Tylor
Answer: Geertz
The term ________ is a term used in anthropology to describe people whose customs, behaviors, or beliefs are different than one’s own.
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Ethnie, Outsider, Exile, Other
Answer: Other
Franz Boas trained several anthropologists, including ________.
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Mead and Tylor, Kroeber, Malinowski, and Radcliffe-Brown, Kroeber, Benedict, and Mead, Benedict and Radcliffe-Brown
Answer: Kroeber, Benedict, and Mead
Functionalism is an approach to studying culture that focuses on how the parts of a society work together to maintain social order. __________ used this theory, arguing how traditions develop to address human needs.
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Benedict, Boas, Malinowski
Answer: Malinowski
Individuals learn about the expectations and characteristics of a culture through the process of enculturation.
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True, False
Answer: True
Ethical principles in anthropology include doing no harm; obtaining all necessary permissions and informed consent; and making your results accessible.
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True, False
Answer: True
Armchair anthropology is a term used to describe a method of studying a culture, and includes the following characteristics:
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The research is conducted from a distance, It is based on information gathered by other people, All of these answers are characteristics of armchair anthropology, It is done without direct contact with the people in that culture.
Answer: All of these answers are characteristics of armchair anthropology
________ refers to the study of the social use of space, such as “space bubbles.”
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Paralanguage, Proxemics, An open system, A closed system
Answer: Proxemics
The controversial theory of linguistic relativity was first put forward by ________.
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Benjamin Whorf, Franz Boas, George Lakoff, Walter Benjamin
Answer: Benjamin Whorf
Only true human language has the following characteristics: discreteness, duality of patterning, productivity/creativity, and ________.
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Cultural transmission, Arbitrariness, Displacement, Interchangeability
Answer: Displacement
The following is an example of a phoneme: “r” in rice.
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True, False
Answer: True
The Critical ________ Range Hypothesis states that after puberty, children who have not been exposed to human language will lose their biological capability of attaining native fluency in any language.
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Puberty, Language, Age
Answer: Age
An example of gendered speech styles can be seen in ________ where women speak very bluntly, and men use very flowery language.
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South Africa, Japan, Madagascar, China
Answer: Japan
The ________ system of communication allows users to create new messages and meanings.
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Closed, Primate, Kinesic, Open
Answer: Open
A ________ can be anything; it conveys meaning, and is a way to refer to something else.
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Answer: Symbol
A morpheme is a minimal unit of meaning in a language. A bound morpheme is a part of a word that has meaning, but must be attached to another morpheme. Which of the following languages has very few bound morphemes?
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Chinese, Swahili, English, Senegali
Answer: Chinese