The detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork is called:
a. ethnology
b. ethnography
c. forensic anthropology
d. molecular anthropology
b
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A recent cross-cultural study of 87 societies, all of which had incest taboos, investigated the rate at which such taboos were broken. The results of this study add to the evidence that
A. although tabooed, incest does happen. B. Freud was right: Children everywhere have sexual feelings toward their parents. C. cultural universals, like the human ability to make fire, always have a genetic basis. D. many societies need better educational systems. E. many societies need better techniques of social control.
Which of the following is NOT a method of ethnographic "fieldwork" research?
a. observation b. colonization c. documentation d. data collection
A 2001 fossil find called Orrorin tugenensis, dated 6 million years of age,
A. appears to have been a chimp-sized creature that climbed easily and walked on two legs when on the ground. B. lacks any possible evidence that it was bipedal. C. is the undisputed "missing link." D. was found in South America, suggesting that the transition into bipedalism may have happened there. E. is older than the famous Toumai find.
Who discovered the first Sinanthropus skull in 1929?
A) Elliot Smith B) Davidson Black C) Roy Chapman Andrews D) Otto Zdansky E) Pei Wenzhong