Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is the commonly stated goal for most development projects?
increased equity
Applied anthropology is
the use of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary problems.
What is a disease?
a scientifically identified health threat
What is an illness?
a condition of poor health perceived by an individual
Which of the following best describes scientific medicine?
a health care system that relies on advances in technology
Ethnography is one of the applied anthropology’s most valuable research tools, because it provides a firsthand account of the lives of ordinary people.
true
During World War II, the U.S. government recruited anthropologists to study Japanese and German cultures. This chapter uses this example to illustrate the dangers of old anthropology.
true
During the 1950s and 1960s, most American anthropologists were college professors.
true
A commonly stated goal of recent development policy is to promote equity; that is, to reduce poverty and promote a more even distribution of wealth.
true
Fortunately for applied anthropologists eager to do effective international work, all governments are by their nature genuinely and realistically committed to improving the lives of their citizens.
false
Sociolinguists and cultural anthropologists studying Puerto Rican communities in the Midwestern United States found that Puerto Rican parents valued education more than non-Hispanics did.
true
Urban anthropologists research topics such as immigration, ethnicity, poverty, and class.
true
Biomedicine, which aims to link an illness to scientifically demonstrated agents that bear no personal malice toward their victims, is an example of naturalistic medicine.
true
Health care systems refers only to the nationalized health care services that exist in core industrial nations.
false
Non-Western medicine does not maintain a sharp distinction between biological and psychological illnesses.
true
Non-Western medicine recognizes that poor health has intertwined physical, emotional, and social causes.
true
A bachelor’s degree in anthropology is of little value in the corporate world.
false
Who was studied at a distance during the 1940s in an attempt to predict the behavior of the political enemies of the United States?
the Germans and Japanese
The U.S. baby boom of the late 1940s and 1950s
fueled the general expansion of the U.S. educational system, including academic anthropology.
Development anthropology is the branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of, which type of development?
economic
