Exam 1

Question 1

5 properties of human language

Answer 1

1) arbitrariness
2) productivity
3) discreteness
4) displacement
5) multimedia potential

Question 2

Arbitrariness

Answer 2

Language rules made my culture, not nature

Question 3

Discreteness

Answer 3

Made up of bounded sound units

Question 4

Productivity

Answer 4

Can create new word/meaning combos. Use known words to invent new ones

Question 5

Displacement

Answer 5

Can refer to non present things/ideas or events occurring in the past

Question 6

Research methods

Answer 6

1) preparation–research, contacts, money, ?, language, toolkit
2) participant obs.–join in, familiarizes culture
3) interview–can get full life story, follow up participant obs., triangulation
4) fieldnotes–“thick description”
5) rapport–magical key to research
6) ethics–do no harm, obtain informed consent

Question 7

Early anthropology approaches

Answer 7

1) unilinear evolutionism
2) historical particularism
3) functionalism

Question 8

Hallmarks of cultural anthropology

Answer 8

1) holism
2) ethnology
3) approach to culture
4) ethnographic methods
5) range of research topics
6) attention to globalization