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Social and cultural anthropology’s hallmark method is A. Ethnology B. Ethnography C. Observation D. Semi-structured interviews
ethnography
The four fields of anthropology common in the United States are:
A. Social Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Archaeology and Forensic Science
B. Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology and Biological Anthropology
C. Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology
D. Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology and Archaeology
Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology and Archaeology
Bronislaw Malinowski’s groundbreaking research was conducted in the
Trobriand Islands
Moka is a ritual exchange of valued goods, especially:
Pigs
Three anthropologists working at MIT featured in the Doing Anthropology video were specialists in:
Migrant communities, making cheese and studying scientists
“Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”. This famous early anthropological definition of culture was written by:
Bronislaw Malinowski in his book Argonauts of the Western Pacific.
Marcel Mauss in his book The Gift.
Margaret Mead in her book Coming of Age in Samoa.
Edward B. Tylor in his book Primitive Culture.
Edward B. Tylor in his book Primitive Culture.
Ethnocentrism is:
Judging another culture according to one’s own cultural standards
Which of the following is not a characteristic of culture defined by Kottak in Chapter 2 of the textbook: A. Culture is Symbolic B. Culture is Integrated C. Culture is Intrinsic D. Culture is Shared
Culture is Intrinsic
Which of the following is not a characteristic of ethnography:
A. It traditionally studies entire communities
B. It usually focuses on a small number of variables within a sample population
C. It is based on firsthand fieldwork
D. It traditionally has been conducted in non-industrial, small-scale societies
It usually focuses on a small number of variables within a sample population
Which of the following statements is not true:
Peer-reviewed journal articles are assessed by an expert reviewer
Peer-reviewed journals offer a very high standard for research quality
All scholarly journals are peer-reviewed
All scholarly journals include references.
All scholarly journals are peer-reviewed
Australopithicus afarensis lived
between 2.8 and 3.6 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia
The Acheulean Industry is known for
Hand axes
Neanderthals had a cranial capacity of:
1600 – 1640 c.c
Ethnographic analogy brings archaeology and anthropology together to deliver an holistic understanding of the past. However there are some important caveats on the use of ethno-archaeology. Which ONE of the following statements best summarises the opportunities and barriers to the use of ethnoarchaeology?
A. Ethnoarchaeology assumes that people’s behaviour in the present is identical to behaviour in the past. As a consequence ethnoarchaeology is only valuable when assessing evidence from the very recent past.
B. Ethnoarchaeology can be problematic if practitioners are not careful to avoid drawing simplistic analogies between the present and the deep past. However, that said, it IS possible to use ethnography to provide options for thinking about archaeological interpretation.
C. Ethnoarchaeology provides that, what people do in the ethnographic present is a direct analogy for what they have always done. In this sense, ethnoarchaeology provides that Indigenous people’s culture is unchanging through time.
D. All of the above statements are true.
Ethnoarchaeology can be problematic if practitioners are not careful to avoid drawing simplistic analogies between the present and the deep past. However, that said, it IS possible to use ethnography to provide options for thinking about archaeological interpretation.
What is anthropometry?
the measurement of human body parts and dimensions
According to Kottak, what are the two major components of fieldwork in archaeological anthropology?
A. systematic survey and excavation
B. the genealogical method and excavation
C. systematic survey and the emic perspective
D. excavation and participant observation
systematic survey and excavation
Kinship was described as ‘the basic discipline’ of anthropology by:
Robin Fox
In Afro-Caribbean societies, families are typically:
matrifocal
The island featured in the ethnographic film The Forgotten Island is called:
Tristan da Cunha
The nuclear family is the most common kin group in what kinds of societies?
industrial middle class and foraging bands
Which of the following is not true of the current exhibitions at the UQ Anthropology museum?
A. Written on the body places items from the museum collection alongside everyday items such as kitchen implements and rear-view mirrors.
B. Gapuwiyak Calling includes a short film made about mobile phone ringtones.
C. Written on the body critically revisits tradition museum practices such as inscribing items with numbers and categories.
D. Both exhibitions are centred around Aboriginal Australian artefacts belonging to the museum collection.
Both exhibitions are centred around Aboriginal Australian artefacts belonging to the museum collection.
In lectures, which of the following arguments was not made with reference to refrigerators in Cuba?
A. Refrigerators from different eras offer a ‘biography’ of how Cubans have fared across different political periods from the 1960s to today.
B. Refrigerators are an example of domestic material culture.
C. Refrigerators in Cuba are becoming increasingly affordable.
D. The breakdown of a refrigerator can challenge the capacity of women to be good mothers.
Refrigerators in Cuba are becoming increasingly affordable.
In the Kottak textbook, patriarchy is described as:
A. Male supremacy based on patrilineality, patrilocality and warfare.
B. A political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status.
C. Descent traced through men only.
D. Married couple resides in husband’s (father’s) community.
A political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status.
Among foragers:
men excel in the harsh life and therefore accrue vastly more prestige than women
warfare makes men dominant over women
the status of women falls when they provide most of the food.
the lack of a clear public-domestic dichotomy is related to relatively mild gender inequality.
the lack of a clear public-domestic dichotomy is related to relatively mild gender inequality.
