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Anthropology

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of applied anthropology?   show
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show cultural relativism  
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show proxemics  
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show enculturation  
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What is the study of how meaning is conveyed at the word and phrase level?   show
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show deductive  
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a symbol is...   show
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In cultural anthropology, fieldwork is referred to as ____ , which is both the process and result of cultural anthropological research.   show
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Culture is...   show
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Speakers of two _______ of the same language do not necessarily always understand each other.   show
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______ is a subsistence system that relies on herds of domesticated livestock.   show
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What is an approach in anthropology that investigates the historical evolution of economic relationships, as well as the contemporary political processes and social structures that contribute to differences in income and wealth?   show
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show foraging  
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Approximately what percentage of the world’s pastoralists live in Africa?   show
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Consumption is _______, even when it addresses physical needs.   show
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show c. Exchange in which both parties try to take advantage of the other  
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show foraging  
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Humans use material possessions to…   show
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Small-scale, semi-subsistence farmers make up what size group of people on the planet today?   show
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show age and gender  
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Tribes are ___ societies.   show
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show b. the power structure in a society  
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show not the romantic view of marriage found in Hollywood movies and romance novels b. largely a device that links two families together c. a logical vehicle for creating alliances between groups  
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A pattern of residence in which married individuals lives with or near the husband’s father family is known as…   show
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show 100,000-150,000 years longer  
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show exogamy  
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Polygyny refers to…   show
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Polyandry refers to…   show
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show kinship charts  
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Chiefdoms are _____ societies.   show
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What is magic, from an anthropological perspective?   show
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Studying supernatural beliefs is challenging because…   show
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show d. The commodity chain  
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Globalization is…   show
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The McDonald’s restaurant’s “McAloo Tikki” breadcrumb-coated potato and pea patty sandwich in India is an example of ___ or the adaptation of global ideas into locally palatable forms.   show
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show c. Ethnoscapes, Technoscapes, Ideoscapes, Financescapes, Mediascapes  
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To study supernatural beliefs, anthropologists must cultivate a perspective of ____ and strive to understand beliefs from ___ or insider’s perspective.   show
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show c. the flow of media across borders  
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What are sacred objects or ideas?   show
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The definition of religion as “the belief in supernatural beings” is…   show
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show ritual, religion, gender  
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What is cultural ecology?   show
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What is a personal front or the personal front?   show
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show sustainable devvelopment  
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show b. Performing culture  
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show b. A term proposed to describe the current moment (or epoch) in geological time in which the effects of human activities have altered the fundamental geochemical cycles of the earth.  
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In anthropological terms, a performance can be…   show
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show park guards, tour guides, research assistants  
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show cultural performances, performances of culture  
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show Exurban  
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What is a placebo effect?   show
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show a. It is a word that is used to describe a set of technologies that connect multiple people at one time to shared content.  
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What is a definition for mass communication?   show
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Studies by media anthropologists have demonstrated that….   show
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What are media practices?   show
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What is an example of how interactions between biology and culture have affected human biology?   show
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What are the four ethno-etiologies?   show
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What is medical anthropology?   show
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show a. An illness recognized only within a specific culture swallowing frogs in brazil or engolir sapos nervos (or nerves in brazil)  
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