Anthropology Quiz 1

While anthropologists may study morality, typically we don't make judgements about right and wrong because:

we use cultural relativism understanding the morality is not a moralizing project.

Henry Morgan’s argument that all societies “progress” through the same stages of development (savagery, barbarism, civilization) is an example of what type of thinking?

Ethnocentric

In her book, Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family, Jean Briggs argues that

anger and strong emotions are not expressed among families that live together in small iglus amid harsh enviromental conditions.

Medical anthropologists: which one is correct

all of the answer choices are correct.

sharing daily and ritual experiences.

conducting interviews and surveys.

living in Ifugao Province of the Philippines.

all of the answer choices are correct

Lynn Kwiatkowski’s participant observation research consisted of

all of the answer choices are correct.

sharing daily and ritual experiences.

conducting interviews and surveys

living in Ifugao Province of the Philippines.

all of the answer choices are correct.

What phrase does Bob Myers use to encourage his students to appreciate that anthropology happens all around them?

“Have an anthropological weekend”

Instead of studying social groups that differ from their own, to where are cultural anthropologists increasingly turning their focus?

Their own societies and subgroups within them

The principle that a culture must be understood on its own terms rather than compared to an outsider’s standard is called

cultural relativism.

Clifford Geertz, a post-modern anthropologist, stressed the importance of

language, as a means of transmitting symbolic knowledge in public contexts.

The theory of functionalism, as used by Malinowski, understood that cultural traditions developed as a result of

the need to regulate specific human needs, such as food, safety, reproduction, and livelihood.