Quiz Chapter 3 & 4

Question 1

Chan has started a project comparing health care practices from a village in Mozambique to similar techniques in rural Kentucky. This process of cross-cultural, comparative research is known as:

Answer 1

ethnology

Question 2

T/F
If you investigated the ways in which language is gendered in a particular culture, you would be considering the sociolinguistics of that culture.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

How long ago do anthropologists believe language began to emerge?

Answer 3

within the past 150,000 years

Question 4

T/F

The emic perspective investigates how people within the population being studied think and understand the world.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Carlos is an anthropologist who wants to learn more about how social bonding is formed among American college students. He begins by recording whom students turn to in times of need. This technique is known as:

Answer 5

social network analysis

Question 6

Mel, a pet pug, barks three times every day when his owner prepares to feed him dinner. Which of the following terms is most applicable to Mel’s communication?

Answer 6

call system

Question 7

Corrine is researching the Nuer of South Sudan, and she learns how they care for their cattle by asking a lot questions and pitching in with daily tasks that the Nuer undertake to care for these important animals. This practice is best known as:

Answer 7

participant observation

Question 8

Which of the following research methods involves a conversation wherein a respondent is asked a specific set of questions?

Answer 8

interview

Question 9

What term best describes the ability to navigate between writing in an academic tone and speaking in daily, common language?

Answer 9

code switching

Question 10

Grammar is defined as:

Answer 10

combined set of rules that govern use of a particular language

Question 11

According to Palfrey and Gasser (p. 141), which of the following terms applies to the generation that was born after 1980, was raised in the digital age, and has spent their entire lives thinking digitally?

Answer 11

digital natives

Question 12

T/F

Anthropologists are not concerned with protecting the identity of their field informants.

Answer 12

False; they ARE concerned

Question 13

T/F

Verb endings such as “-ing” and “-ed” are phonemes, while verbs such as “studying” or “worked” are morphemes.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Anthropologists engage in _____ to consider how their personal identity and life experiences affect fieldwork and theoretical analysis.

Answer 14

reflexivity

Question 15

Which type of linguistics is defined as “the study of the sounds, symbols, and gestures of a language, and their combination into forms that communicate meaning”?

Answer 15

descriptive language

Question 16

T/F

A list of all the words for names, events, and ideas existing in a particular language is known as a lexicon.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Which research method can gather quantitative data and reach large numbers of people quickly?

Answer 17

survey

Question 18

T/F

Zeros are the result of omitted details or missing individuals whose absence offers insight into sensitive topics.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

T/F
The study of the relationship between body movements and communication to convey messages with or without words is known as kinesics.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

_____ is the smallest unit of sound that makes a difference in meaning.

Answer 20

phoneme

Question 21

T/F
The practice of using quotes from the population being studied to provide many different voices speaking directly on the topic is called polyvocality.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

__________ is known for contributing the method of participant observation to the anthropologist’s toolkit.

Answer 22

Bronislaw Malinowski

Question 23

How many languages are currently in use in the world?

Answer 23

nearly 7,000

Question 24

Anthropologists increasingly use their observations and analysis to bring about positive change in the communities where they work. This concept is known as:

Answer 24

engaged anthropology

Question 25

T/F

The study of how language develops and changes over time is known as communicative linguistics.

Answer 25

False; historical linguistics

Question 26

Terms such as participant observation, ethnography, and cultural relativism are part of the anthropologist’s

Answer 26

focal vocabulary

Question 27

__________ is known for contributing the practice of salvage ethnography.

Answer 27

Franz Boas

Question 28

T/F

Qualitative data provides descriptive analysis while quantitative data provides statistical information.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

______ suggests that different languages create different ways of thinking.

Answer 29

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Question 30

Anthropologists are ethically bound to let those we study know why we are studying them, and to obtain their permission to do so. Which term summarizes this obligation?

Answer 30

informed consent