L1 (Cultural Anthropology) The Four Fields of General Anthropology

Question 1

Origin of Anthropology

Answer 1

Western

Question 2

Continent/s that has or have a political take on Anthropology

Answer 2

Latin America and Africa

Question 3

Continent/s that only associate/s Anthropology to Cultural Anthropology

Answer 3

Europe and other parts of the world aside from North America

Question 4

The continent that has four fields in Anthropology

Answer 4

North America

Question 5

Archaeology or ______

Answer 5

Prehistory

Question 6

Focuses on past cultures by examining material remains

Answer 6

Archaeology

Question 7

Four Examples of Material Remains

Answer 7

1. Stone and bone tools
2. Skeletal material
3. Remains of buildings
4. Refuse

Question 8

Type of refuse. Broken pieces of pottery.

Answer 8

Postherds

Question 9

Type of refuse. Fossilized fecal matter.

Answer 9

Corpolites

Question 10

The traditional focus of archaeological research

Answer 10

grand sites and artifacts

Question 11

Smalls towns and villages, and simple everyday life was overlooked.

Answer 11

capital-centric bias of traditional archaeological research

Question 12

The current focus of archaeological research

Answer 12

center-local interactions

Question 13

Other term for Biological Anthropology

Answer 13

Physical Anthropology

Question 14

Focuses on the understanding of human variation, adaptation, and change by studying many forms of life, human, and non-human, past and present

Answer 14

Biological or Physical Anthropology

Question 15

Which subfield of Biological Anthropology studies nonhuman primates and compares their behavior to human primates?

Answer 15

Primatology

Question 16

Which subfield of Biological Anthropology studies prehistoric diseases?

Answer 16

Paleopathology

Question 17

This subfield of Biological Anthropology studies human growth and development, nutrition, health and changes due to numerous factors in the current world, and genetic distributions across population and how genetic change occurs over time.

Answer 17

Contemporary Human Biological Variation

Question 18

This subfield of Biological Anthropology views culture & society by the rules of Darwin’s natural selection and group fitness.

Answer 18

Sociobiology

Question 19

One original focus of Linguistic Anthropology is to document disappearing __________ languages.

Answer 19

Native American

Question 20

Another focus of Linguistic Anthropology is to learn to document ___________ of cultures with no _________.

Answer 20

unwritten languages, writing system

Question 21

The field of Anthropology that is believed by some anthropologist to have declined in importance.

Answer 21

Linguistic Anthropology

Question 22

Languages change all the time, it needs to be _____ and _____.

Answer 22

documented, analyzed

Question 23

Examples of new media that Linguistic Anthropology currently branches out to.

Answer 23

mass media
email
music
ads
movies
social media

Question 24

Other term for Cultural Anthropology

Answer 24

Social Anthropology

Question 25

This field of Anthropology studies how culture differ from or resembles one another and why, and how different cultures influence each other.

Answer 25

Cultural Anthropology

Question 26

"Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange," (Spiro, 1990) means?

Answer 26

decenter ourselves from our own culture outsiders perspective

Question 27

This field of Anthropology encompasses all aspects of human behavior and beliefs.

Answer 27

Cultural or Social Anthropology

Question 28

This field of Anthropology considers how change occurs in the different areas of culture.

Answer 28

Cultural or Social Anthropology

Question 29

This field of Anthropology is not yet widely accepted as one.

Answer 29

Applied Anthropology

Question 30

This field of Anthropology involves the use or application of anthropological knowledge to help solve social problems.

Answer 30

Applied Anthropology

Question 31

Applied Anthropology should maintain as a separate field because it has an extended role, such as, direct and strong effects on the negative consequences of _______.

Answer 31

capitalist globalization

Question 32

Applied Anthropology focuses _____ interactions and their changes over time.

Answer 32

global-local

Question 33

An attitude that cultural anthropologists must have.

Answer 33

noninvolvement in change

Question 34

Applied Anthropology should merge with other fields because _________ should go hand-in-hand.

Answer 34

theory and practice