What is the task of an ethnoscientist?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: The task is to describe a culture in terms of how it is perceived, ordered, and categorized by the members of that culture rather than by imposing the categories of the ethnographer
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An Archaeological ProblemThe following multiple-choice questions refer to the paragraph below. Base your answers on the information given below, your archaeological knowledge, and common sense.Recent excavations in the Levant have uncovered a small settlement of approximately twenty houses. These structures were circular in shape and had rock-wall foundations. A number of burials were found in a small cemetery adjacent to the settlement. Storage pits and roasting areas for preparing plant foods also were found, but there was no evidence for domesticated plants at the site. Animal bones from deer, gazelle, sheep, and goat were common at the site. The investigators noticed that a high number of young male animals were represented in the sheep bones. This difference was not noted among the
bones of the other species. Other materials from the site included sickle blades, bone tools, charcoal, and grinding slabs.The earliest known domesticated cereal, rye, dates to: A. 9000 B.C. B. 11,000 B.C. C. 8000 B.C. D. 10,000 B.C. E. 12,000 B.C.
As investigators who illustrated the functionalist approach in anthropology, both Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown performed ethnographic research focused on
A. the symbolic value that cultural traits and practices held with members of contemporary society. B. the role of cultural traits and practices aimed at conflict resolution. C. the evolutionary history of present-day cultural patterns. D. the role of cultural traits and practices in contemporary society. E. myth and ritual and the ways these aspects of culture created social cohesion.
In _____ kinship terminology, the term "brother" is given to ego's brother, father's brother's son, and mother's sister's song? a different term is used for the sons of father's sister and mother's brother. "Mother" refers to ego's mother and mother's sister? "father" refers to ego's father and father's brother. Separate terms are used for mother's brother and father's sister
a. Eskimo b. Hawaiian c. Iroquois d. unilineal descent e. kindred
Paleoanthropologist Owen Lovejoy argues that bipedalism arose because __________
A. early hominins needed to make and use tools in order to survive on the open savannas of Africa B. early hominins found it necessary to see over the high grass on the savannas to identify both predators and food sources C. it conferred a crucial adaptive advantage on the ability to transport food back to a mate, which in turn allowed the female to increase in quality and quantity of care given to infants D. it allowed the early hominins to run from their major predators with ease and agility on the open savannas and woodlands during the Pliocene