Which of the following strategies is unique to anthropology?
A. Comparison
B. A biological perspective
C. Ethnography
D. An evolutionary perspective
E. Working with skilled respondents
C. Ethnography
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Environmental anthropologist Nicole Peterson worked to develop insurance for farmers in Ethiopia
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
This chapter's survey of the major theoretical perspectives that have characterized anthropology highlights all of the following EXCEPT
A. a continuous concern with how to define and study culture. B. the theoretical and methodological shift from complexity to models that simplify human diversity. C. a continuous concern with scientific fundamentals and whether or not anthropology's research subject is best studied scientifically. D. attention to whether or not anthropological data ought to be comparative across time and space. E. the discipline's profound commitment to understanding human diversity.
The design feature "duality of patterning" refers to the human capacity to:
a. connect a large set of sounds to a small object (i.e. microorganism) and a small set of sounds to a large object (i.e. whale). b. create ambiguous sentences with dual meanings based on syntactic patterns. c. say one thing while intending to say another, indicating the second meaning with tone of voice. d. create nearly infinite combinations of finite sets of language units.
The reason students of non-Western art have generally ignored individual artists in the societies they have studied is that there aren't any. In non-Western communities, there is no concept of individual artists.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)