The anthropological attitude that a society’s customs and ideas should be viewed in the context of its own culture is called _____
a. cultural relativism
b. the etic approach
c. the emic approach
d. ethnocentrism
e. holism
ANSWER:
a
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a. work in the field for long periods of time. b. study the way in which cultures have changed over time. c. study only past cultures, much as archaeologists do. d. prepare lengthy reports on extinct cultures.
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The Dutch people allow honor killings in order to respect minority cultures
a. True b. False
Experimental archaeology provides archaeologists with bridging arguments, ways to make inferences about past behavior from material remains. Which of the following is not an example of experimental archaeology?
a. Using British schoolboys to see if they could move stones similar to those used to build Stonehenge. b. Using a stone tool to scrape hide and then examining microwear present on the tool's edge to determine the type of wear caused by hide-scraping. c. Using seriation to construct a way to date archaeological sites based on painted pottery styles. d. Throwing hafted spear points into elephant carcasses to determine their capacity for penetration. e. Excavating major quarries into bedrock using only fire, wooden wedges, and stone mallets to see if materials for ancient stones tools could have been located and collected in this way.