Anthropology 2
Cultural Anthropology

Jorge Sanchez

Assignment 1: Chapters 1 through 3

Due Date: June 21, 2002
send answers via e-mail to jsanchez@hartnell.cc.ca.us by midnight of due date!

1. Anthropology differs from other disciplines that study humans in its ability to ____________ data from many sources.

  1. synthesize
  2. eliminate
  3. invent
  4. falsify
  5. fabricate

2. Theories about the world and reality based on the assumptions and values of one's own culture are

  1. simplistic.
  2. irrational.
  3. culture-bound.
  4. relativistic.
  5. inductive.

3. An archaeologist studies

  1. potsherds.
  2. paleoecology.
  3. genetic drift.
  4. garbage.
  5. a, b, and d.

4. In-depth descriptive studies of specific cultures are called

  1. ethnologies.
  2. ethnobotanies.
  3. biologies.
  4. ethnographies.
  5. anthropologies.

5. Besides being interesed in descriptions of particular cultures, the ethnologist is interested in

  1. teaching food foragers how to used timesaving gadgets.
  2. cross-cultural comparisons.
  3. descriptions of nonhuman species.
  4. promoting Western ways.
  5. providing data to various government agencies to help them suppress certain groups.

6. The Amish may be used as an example of a/an

  1. pluralistic society.
  2. subculture.
  3. integrated society.
  4. world cutlure.
  5. complex society.

7. The most important symbolic aspect of culture is

  1. art.
  2. language.
  3. religion.
  4. money.
  5. politics.

8. The process by which organisms adjust beneficially to their environment, or the characteristics by which they overcome hazards and gain access to the resources they need to survive, is called

  1. culture.
  2. biology.
  3. social structure.
  4. integration.
  5. adaptation.

9. According to Leslie White, which of the following is a symbol?

  1. a painting
  2. a novel
  3. walking across an intersection
  4. brushing your teeth
  5. all of the above

10. The British anthropologist ____________ was the originator of what has come to be known as the structural-functionalist school of thought.

  1. Claude Levi-Strauss
  2. George Simmel
  3. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
  4. Leslie A. White
  5. Ruth Benedict

11. The primate order includes which of the following types of animals?

  1. tarsiers
  2. lorises
  3. indris
  4. apes
  5. all of the above

12. The earliest known tool tradition

  1. is called Oldowan.
  2. begins about 2 million years ago.
  3. marks the beginning of the Paleolithic.
  4. marks the end of the Paleolithic.
  5. a, b, and c

13. A pioneer in the study of primate behavior.

  1. Ruth Benedict
  2. Margaret Mead
  3. Jane Goodall
  4. Benjamin Beck
  5. Ashley Montagu

14. At the genetic level, humans and chimpanzees are at least ____________ percent identical.

  1. 100
  2. 98
  3. 75
  4. 50
  5. 25

15. This woman primatologist studied gorillas.

  1. Birute Galdikas
  2. Diane Fossey
  3. Jane Goodall
  4. Laura Nader
  5. Mary Leakey

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