Dr. Ann Soetoro, the mother of President Barack Obama, was a cultural anthropologist who worked in Indonesia studying:
a. ritual practices and religious change.
b. agricultural improvement and multinational corporations.
c. economic development and entrepreneurism among rural craftspeople.
d. gender roles in society.
e. educational policy and improvements.
c
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Postmodernists emphasize
a. solitary research by one ethnographer. b. the rejection of generalizing and developing predictable theories. c. a close relation to biology that focuses on cultures as a biological necessity. d. the extreme etic approach. e. the local people only, disregarding any kind of global effects.
Unlike archaeologists, __________ draw on a database of observations and interviews with living people
A) ethnologists B) paleoanthropologists C) ethnohistorians D) bioarchaeologists
Folk art, music, and lore refer to the
A. expressive cultures of ordinary people. B. unrefined manifestations of human creativity produced by illiterate societies. C. forms of artistic expression that exist independently of any given cultural system. D. forms of artistic expression found in the New World prior to the arrival of Columbus. E. manifestations of human creativity that siblings exchange with their progenitors.
The specialty in archaeology that works to interpret and defend artifacts from building projects and other forms of site destruction is called:
a. paleoanthropology. b. paleopathology. c. prehistoric archaeology. d. forensic anthropology. e. cultural resource management.