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1
Ethnocentrism means being proud of your heritage.
A)
True.
B)
False.
2
Culture is something that you're born with like eye color or hair color.
A)
True.
B)
False.
3
Rwala Bedouin and the Kazaks are both a type of society called nomadic pastoralists.
A)
True.
B)
False.
4
Navajo people today live, work, and exist totally separate from other Americans, exactly as their ancestors did several generations ago.
A)
True.
B)
False.
5
The concept of "partial truths" suggests that different people within a culture have different views of ideas and norms about the culture as a whole.
A)
True.
B)
False.
6
Human cultural behavior is unique in that it is based on language and the capacity to create symbols, in contrast to other primates.
A)
True.
B)
False.
7
Franz Boas was an American anthropologist who did fieldwork among Northwest Coast native peoples and emphasized cultural relativism in his work.
A)
True.
B)
False.
8
Bronislaw Malinowski is famous for his fieldwork in western Africa.
A)
True.
B)
False.
9
Clifford Geertz explored the meanings that cultures encode by analyzing the Balinese cockfight.
A)
True.
B)
False.
10
Most contemporary anthropologists ignore the history of the community they study, and leave the study of those issues to historians.
A)
True.
B)
False.
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