Reflecting today's world, in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and done on a larger scale. The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that
A. becomes less useful and valuable to understanding culture.
B. is increasingly multisited and multitimed, integrating analyses of external organizations and forces to understand local phenomena.
C. is more traditional, negating anthropologists' concerns about defending their field's roots.
D. challenges anthropologists concerned with salvaging isolated and untouched cultures around the world.
E. requires researchers to stay at the same site for more than three years.
Answer: B
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but that these "primitives" would need some help from the civilized world to reach this ultimate, ideal stage. This perception that Western society is the center of the civilized world and that non-Western societies are inherently inferior is called __________. A. logical negativism B. logical positivism C. ethnocentrism D. devolution
Noam Chomsky suggests that humans are born with a brain prewired to enable us to acquire languages easily. This "prewiring" is referred to as __________
A. syntax B. universal grammar C. infinite model D. functional template
________ magic is based on the belief that whatever is done to an object will affect a person who once had contact with it.
A. Sequential B. Serial C. Contagious D. Simultaneous E. Imitative
To some extent, there is more collective production and performance of art in non-Western societies than in Western, industrialized states.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)