Chapter 2: Life in the Field

Question 1

applied anthropology

Question 2

diffusion

Question 3

historical pluralism

Question 4

medical anthropology

Question 5

purposeful sampling

Question 6

qualitative research

Question 7

structural functionalism

Question 8

Compare and contrast the British and the American Schools of anthropology using examples from the work of Malinowski, Richards, Boas, and Mead.

Question 9

Explain the structural functionalism approach to anthropology by discussing the work of Audrey Richards among the Bemba in what is now Zambia.

Question 10

Explain Boas’s anthropological approach, and identify how it is different from that of evolutionary anthropologists.

Question 11

Describe Margaret Mead’s theoretical and methodological approach to studying adolescent girls in Samoa.

Question 12

Describe how Mead’s findings from Samao influenced the discipline of anthropology and our understanding of human diversity.

Question 13

Summarize the criticisms of Mead’s work from a contemporary perspective.

Question 14

Identify some of the professions in which anthropologists can apply their knowledge and skills, and list three challenges that they may encounter.

Question 15

Identify some of the criticisms leveled at economic agencies involved in economic aid and development in the 1990s.

Question 16

Using the exaple of malaria and degedege, explain why implementing a public health initiative is so complex, and how anthropological research may assist in this endeavour.

Question 17

Outline the problems facing the failed USAID reforestation program in Haiti and explain how Gerald Murray used an anthropological approach to craft a successful program.