Anthropology quiz 2

Culture is hard to define, but most anthropologists generally agree on four aspects. Which of the following is NOT one of these agreed-upon aspects?

culture is symbolic and fluid, not static or unchanging

none of these are correct

culture is learned and shaped by relationships of power

globalization dooms local cultures to extinction

globalization dooms local cultures to extinction

What is armchair anthropology?

The branch of anthropology that studies only those people and cultures at “arm’s length”

How do anthropologists understand the concept of The Other?

It is a term that describes people whose customs, beliefs, or behaviors are different from one’s own; an outsider or stranger.

Which of the following is true about anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski?

He “went native” during his fieldwork, becoming personally involved with the locals in ways that are ethically questionable.

All of the answer choices are correct.

He wrote a book about life in the Trobriands, called Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922).

He lived among Trobriand Island villagers, undertaking participant-observation fieldwork.

All of the answer choices are correct.

Margaret Mead’s book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) provided an example of cultural determinism in that

the stress and anxiety of American adolescence were not experienced by Samoan youth, who grew up in a different cultural environmen

After studying Hopi language, linguistic anthropologists Sapir and Whorf concluded that

Hopi speakers understand time in a fundamentally different way than English speakers.

Before beginning fieldwork, researchers usually must submit their plans to an Institutional Research Board (IRB). The role of the IRB is to

ensure that study participants are aware they will not be harmed by the research.

The in-depth study of everyday practices and lives of a people is referred to as

ethnography

The research technique in which an ethnographer records their own observations and thoughts, as well as what they do while engaging in daily community activities, is called

particpant observation

Salvage ethnography was an approach that emphasized

preserving and collecting “authentic” and traditional ways of life that were disappearing.