Chapter 3

Question 1

What is the commonly stated goal for most development projects?

Answer 1

increased equity

Question 2

Applied anthropology is

Answer 2

the use of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary problems.

Question 3

What is a disease?

Answer 3

a scientifically identified health threat

Question 4

What is an illness?

Answer 4

a condition of poor health perceived by an individual

Question 5

Which of the following best describes scientific medicine?

Answer 5

a health care system that relies on advances in technology

Question 6

Ethnography is one of the applied anthropology’s most valuable research tools, because it provides a firsthand account of the lives of ordinary people.

Answer 6

true

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

true

Question 8

During the 1950s and 1960s, most American anthropologists were college professors.

Answer 8

true

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

true

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

false

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

true

Question 12

Urban anthropologists research topics such as immigration, ethnicity, poverty, and class.

Answer 12

true

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

true

Question 14

Health care systems refers only to the nationalized health care services that exist in core industrial nations.

Answer 14

false

Question 15

Non-Western medicine does not maintain a sharp distinction between biological and psychological illnesses.

Answer 15

true

Question 16

Non-Western medicine recognizes that poor health has intertwined physical, emotional, and social causes.

Answer 16

true

Question 17

A bachelor’s degree in anthropology is of little value in the corporate world.

Answer 17

false

Question 18

Who was studied at a distance during the 1940s in an attempt to predict the behavior of the political enemies of the United States?

Answer 18

the Germans and Japanese

Question 19

The U.S. baby boom of the late 1940s and 1950s

Answer 19

fueled the general expansion of the U.S. educational system, including academic anthropology.

Question 20

Development anthropology is the branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of, which type of development?

Answer 20

economic