What did Nancy Rosenberger find during her research in Uzbekistan?
A. A national cuisine based on meat is inaccessible to the poorer segments of the population.
B. Global restaurant chains have created problems for local business owners.
C. Menopausal women express complaints through physical symptoms.
D. Inexpensive food is often less nutritious.
Answer: A
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What did John Gould determine when studying Darwin's collected finch specimens from the Galapagos Islands?
a. The finches possessed very few differences from those species found on mainland South America. b. The finches could be sorted into different species and by island based on beak differences. c. The finches were changing their physical characteristics over their lifetimes in response to environmental pressures. d. The finches all descended from one founding group and then diversified across the islands.
Which of the following best describes the approach of participant observation?
a. It is a focus on participation that allows the anthropologist to be self-reflexive and write the ethnographic research from a first person account. b. It is a direct experiential approach in which the anthropologist lives with the people under study. c. Participant observation means that the anthropologist uses numerous key informants to help him or her best understand another culture. d. This approach was used in the early years of anthropology when researchers had to travel for weeks to arrive in a community. e. This fieldwork method is the hallmark of anthropology and involves very intensive surveying and use of questionnaires.
Cultural relativism is
A. the same thing as ethnocentrism. B. a cultural particular, based upon the interrelatedness of humans. C. the opposite of participant observation. D. a cultural universal, based upon the human capacity to use symbols. E. the argument that behavior in a particular culture should not be judged by the standards of another culture.
Most modern anthropologists have come to the conclusion that matriarchy __________
A. has been the most common form of tribal political organization B. was practiced only among early agricultural societies C. is not part of the archaeological, historical, and ethnographic record D. represents the most highly sophisticated form of tribal government