Compare and contrast a monochronic and a polychronic culture
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Monochronic culture places high emphasis on punctuality and completion of one task at a time; polychronic culture values social relationships and numerous tasks simultaneously, even if it forces their daily plan and routine to change. Both deal with the ways that a culture manages time.
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The study of music in its cultural setting is called:
a. ethnohistory. b. ethnomusicology. c. ethnography. d. folklore. e. verbal arts.
The postwar baby boom of the late 1940s and 1950s
A. fueled the general expansion of the American educational system, including academic anthropology. B. promoted renewed interest in applied anthropology during the 1950s and 1960s. C. brought an end to the world system. D. produced a new interest in ethnic diversity. E. brought anthropology into most high school curricula.
Discuss why it is so difficult to come up with a universally applicable definition for art.
What will be an ideal response?
The principle of uniformitarianism
a. stated that the geological processes that operated in the past are still occurring in the present. b. was a problem for the development of evolutionary theories. c. proposed that the earth was only a few thousand years old. d. was the same as the theory of catastrophism. e. was first proposed by Georges Cuvier.