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Ethnology: |
| | A) | provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture. |
| | B) | reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behaviors. |
| | C) | examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of other anthropological studies. |
| | D) | is a systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims through experiment, observation, and deduction to produce reliable explanations of phenomena. |
| | E) | refers to the application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems. |
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Cultural resource management is an example of the application of which subfield of anthropology? |
| | A) | Cultural anthropology |
| | B) | Biological anthropology |
| | C) | Symbolic anthropology |
| | D) | Archaeological anthropology |
| | E) | Linguistic anthropology |
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Anthropological research in classrooms, homes, and neighborhoods is known as: |
| | A) | domestic anthropology. |
| | B) | urban anthropology. |
| | C) | anthropology and education. |
| | D) | holistic anthropology. |
| | E) | anthropology and development. |
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Anthropology is traditionally composed of how many subfields? |
| | A) | one |
| | B) | two |
| | C) | three |
| | D) | four |
| | E) | five |
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Which of the following is not one of the subdisciplines of anthropology? |
| | A) | cultural anthropology |
| | B) | biological anthropology |
| | C) | developmental anthropology |
| | D) | linguistic anthropology |
| | E) | archaeological anthropology |
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Which of the following statements about the world's population is true? |
| | A) | Most of the world's population lives in developed countries. |
| | B) | The world's population is becoming increasingly rural. |
| | C) | Fewer and fewer people are living in urban slums. |
| | D) | The fastest population growth rates are in Third World cities. |
| | E) | There are only 16 cities in the world with more than a million people. |
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Ethnography: |
| | A) | examines, interprets, analyzes, and compares the results of other anthropological studies. |
| | B) | provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture. |
| | C) | reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behaviors. |
| | D) | refers to the application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems. |
| | E) | is a systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims through experiment, observation, and deduction to produce reliable explanations of phenomena. |
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The field that investigates the relationships between social and linguistic variation is: |
| | A) | medical anthropology. |
| | B) | physical anthropology. |
| | C) | ethnology. |
| | D) | sociolinguistics. |
| | E) | applied anthropology. |
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As an early student of Third World urbanization, Robert Redfield focused on the contrasts between: |
| | A) | the sacred and the profane. |
| | B) | urban and suburban communities. |
| | C) | urban and rural life. |
| | D) | diseases and illnesses. |
| | E) | urban and industrial economies. |
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What is the Samoan matai? |
| | A) | a traditional drink used in Samoan initiation ceremonies |
| | B) | the traditional Samoan incest taboo |
| | C) | the traditional Samoan subsistence strategy |
| | D) | the Samoan term for respecting the elders |
| | E) | the native term for a Samoan nuclear family |
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What is an illness? |
| | A) | a condition that can be treated by a full- or part-time healer |
| | B) | a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual |
| | C) | a vector that introduces illness and poor health into an individual or community |
| | D) | a scientifically identified health threat caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, or other pathogen |
| | E) | a cultural universal found only in tropical foragers |
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What is the carrier for schistosomiasis? |
| | A) | snails |
| | B) | mosquitoes |
| | C) | fleas |
| | D) | rats |
| | E) | All animals carry schistosomiasis. |
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Which of the following has helped to spread AIDS in eastern Africa? |
| | A) | prolonged contact with bonobos |
| | B) | high rates of divorce |
| | C) | cultural colonialism |
| | D) | highways |
| | E) | None of the above have helped to spread AIDS in eastern Africa. |
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Western medicine is an example of which kind of disease theory? |
| | A) | emotionalistic disease theory |
| | B) | personalistic disease theory |
| | C) | naturalistic disease theory |
| | D) | gradualistic disease theory |
| | E) | parasitic disease theory |
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Which of the following statements about curers is not true? |
| | A) | They are often shamans. |
| | B) | They are found in only band-level and tribal societies. |
| | C) | They emerge through a culturally defined process of selection. |
| | D) | They are certified by older practitioners. |
| | E) | They treat illnesses. |
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