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