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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is Anthropology?
It is the scientific study of humanity and of human cultures.
Anthropology came from the Greek word anthropos meaning “humankind” and logos meaning the “study”.
It is unique among the social sciences because it focuses on all societies and all aspects of human physical, social, and cultural life.
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- 2. Multiple Choice
This person examines the characteristics that human beings share as members of a single person and the diverse ways that people live in different environments and They also analyze the products of social groups both material objects and less materials creations such as
beliefs and values.
Anthropologister
Detective
Anthropologist
Antique Collector
- 3. Multiple Choice
What are the two broad fields of Anthropology?
Physical &Cultural
Cultural & Natural
Physical & Environmental
Natural & Historical
- 4. Multiple Choice
The studies of past and present human forms or the biological human forms. What field of Anthropology is being described?
Physical Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Natural Anthropology
Historical Anthropology
- 5. Multiple Choice
It investigates and seeks to understand the cultural features of societies.
Physical Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Natural Anthropology
Historical Anthropology
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which is not a sub-branch of Cultural Anthropology?
Ethnology
Anthropological Linguistic
Biology
Archaeology
- 7. Multiple Choice
It is study of marriage customs, kinship
relationship, economic systems, and religious rites of cultural groups, and compare it with the way of life of contemporary societies. What sub-branch of cultural anthropology is being described?
Ethnology
Anthropological Linguistic
Biology
Archaeology
- 8. Multiple Choice
What sub-branch of cultural anthropology that reconstruction of past life of ancient societies: focus is on techniques and Looks at artifacts?
Ethnology
Anthropological Linguistic
Biology
Archaeology
- 9. Multiple Choice
It involves the study of language in the society or communities where language may or maybe not written.
Ethnology
Anthropological Linguistic
Biology
Archaeology
- 10. Multiple Choice
The following are the historical development of Anthropology, EXCEPT;
Anthropology’s emergence as an area of inquiry can go as far back as the time of Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
A major step in the evolution of anthropology as a discipline is the period of European conquest during the sixteenth century
It is during the period of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century that anthropology came of age.
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