Key consultants are individuals who tell the anthropologist things that other members of the society do not want to share
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
False
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The insistence by anthropologists that valid hypotheses and theories about humanity be tested with data from a wide range of cultures is called:
a. cultural relativism. b. the comparative perspective. c. the holistic perspective. d. human variation.
The symptoms of phenylketonuria include __________
a. macrocephaly b. characteristic gait and stance c. hyperpigmentation d. blood clumping in capillaries
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.
The application of evolutionary principles to the study of human variation
a. reinforced traditional views of races as fixed biological entities that do not change. b. allowed scientists to ignore the adaptive significance of most traits. c. allowed scientists to divide the human species precisely into well-defined races. d. helped replace earlier views based solely on observed phenotypes. e. has been of little value for understanding human variation.