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introduction lesson - anthropology
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What makes a human?
Use of language for communication rather than actions
Use of tools
Socially learning behaviours
Making structures
- 2. Multiple Choice
Who are the closest living relatives to humans?
Gorillas and mandrills
Chimps and bonobos
Gibbons and macaques
Orangutans and bonobos
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is anthropology?
Study of humans
Study of human culture/biology
Study of humans in all places and times
All of the above
Just A and B
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is culture?
Customs and traditions
Learning from one another
Technology
Family
Participating in social groups
- 5. Multiple Choice
Culture is learned
True
False
- 6. Fill in the Blank
______ cultures emphasize the needs and goals of the group as a whole over the needs and desires of each individual
- 7. Multiple Choice
What are the four branches of anthropology?
Linguistic
Primatology
Cultural
Archaeology
Biological
- 8. Fill in the Blank
_________ is the practice of living in a culture to study it through experience
- 9. Fill in the Blank
Immersion is an example of ________________ research
- 10. Multiple Choice
What are some key elements of the anthropological perspective?
Holistic
Evolutionary
Bias
Comparative
Qualitative
- 11. Multiple Choice
What best describes holistic research?
Descriptive over statistical data
Compare different categories of data
viewing aspects of human culture as interrelated
Always answering questions
- 12. Multiple Choice
Who created the idea of cultural relativism?
Franz Boas
Hemrich Schliemann
Thomas Jefferson
Lewis Henry Morgan
- 13. Multiple Choice
What was the most common kind of anthropology in the late 1800s to early 1900s?
Salvage anthropology
Ethnography
Immersion
Evolutionary anthropology
- 14. Fill in the Blank
________ __________ is the idea that all cultures are equally valid and that culture can only be understood and interpreted in its own context
- 15. Multiple Choice
What are the tiers of the unilinear theory?
savagery
cannibalism
barbarism
civilization
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