ANTHROPOLOGY FINAL – Flashcards
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The opinion that one's own way of life is natural or correct & the only true way of being fully human is called
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ETHNOCENTRISM
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Understanding another culture sympathetically enough so that it appears to be a coherent & meaningful design for living is called
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CULTURAL RELATIVISM
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If a hypothesis cannot be tested, it
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CANNOT BE CONSIDERED SCIENTIFIC
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The ethnographic research method that relies primarily on face to face contact with people as they go about their daily lives is called
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PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION
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A ''narrative" as discussed in class, is
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A STORY USED TO MAKE SENSE OF THINGS
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According to the text culture consists of
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SETS OF LEARNED BEHAVIORS & IDEAS THAT HUMAN BEINGS ACQUIRE AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY
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Identifying a "mechanism" in science means:
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IDENTIFYING WHY ONE "THING" (VARIABLE) MIGHT AFFECT ANOTHER
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According to the text evolution can be understood broadly as
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CHANGE OVER TIME
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Which of the following is not one of the four evolutionary processes?
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PLASTICITY
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Gene frequencies may be altered if a given population begins to interbreed with another population of the sane species. This is known as
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GENE FLOW
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Which of the following features are connected with variation in human skin color?
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(PROTECTION AGAINST ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION, IMPEDING THE DESTRUCTION OF FOLIC ACID, SYNTHESIS OF VITAMIN D IN THE SKIN) ALL OF THE ABOVE!
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Recent advances in the sequencing of ancient DNA seem to indicate that
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APPROXIMATELY 1% TO 4% OF THE GENOMES OF MODERN, NON-AFRICANS CONTAIN NEANDERTHAL DNA SEQUENCES
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To an archaeologist, which of the following would be considered a feature at an archaeological site?
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THE WALL OF A HOUSE.
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Which of the following factors prevents artifacts from decaying?
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EXTREME COLD, EXTREME HEAT & DRYNESS, WATERLOGGED SITES FREE OF OXYGEN, ALL OF THE ABOVE!
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A world view that justifies the social arrangements under which people live is called
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IDEOLOGY
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The primary argument your instructor made regarding what to do if you found an artifact was:
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LEAVE ARTIFACTS WHERE YOU FIND THEM ON EITHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE LAND BECAUSE THE PERSONAL VALUE OF ARTIFACTS LIES IN DISCOVERY NOT POSSESSION
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We know about past climates through.....
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THREE OF THE ABOVE
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Since the end of the Cold War the concept of neoliberalism has...
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BEEN PROMOTED TO STIMULATE PROSPERITY & DISCOURAGE EXPENSIVE STATE INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
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The soil stratigraphic record contains important information for archaeologists because:
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CONTEMPORARY HUMAN ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE HORIZONTALLY IN THE STRATA
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Which of the following is not a possible explanation for the different forms of social organization seen throughout the past 30,000 years?
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ALL ARE POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS.
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Migrant populations with a shared identity who live in a variety of different locales around the world are called
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DIASPORA
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Many anthropologists accept that ethnicity is created by
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HISTORIC PROCESSES
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Critical thinking about the way one thinks is called
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REFLEXIVITY
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On private property digging up artifacts is...
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LEGAL, BUT ETHICALLY QUESTIONABLE, AS LONG AS THE ARTIFACTS ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH A HUMAN BURIAL
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Anatomically modern humans first migrated out of Africa roughly:
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BETWEEN 60,000 & 200,000 YEARS AGO.
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Why are many anthropologists convinced that cultural imperialism is NOT an adequate explanation for the spread of Western cultural forms?
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ALL OF THE ABOVE.
