What is the major benefit that results from narrative, or reflexive, ethnography?
a. It provides a more objective account of fieldwork.
b. It is subjective and leads to much more interesting publications on the ethnographic experience.
c. Narrative ethnography provides employment and recognition for community members.
d. Through narrative ethnography we better understand the process of
doing fieldwork and the effect theresearcher and subjects have on each other.
e. Narrative ethnography is recognized today as the only way to produce comparative data sets that allow for ascientific analysis of culture.
d
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Which of the following states that there are predictable sequences of animals through strata?
a. the principle of cross-cutting relationships b. the principle of original horizontality c. the principle of superposition d. the principle of faunal succession
Which of the following is NOT one of the possible consequences experienced after the "shock phase" of an encounter between indigenous societies and more powerful outsiders?
A. disrupted subsistence B. a broad-spectrum revolution C. damaged social support systems D. fragmentation of kin groups E. increased mortality
Culture is an integrated and interrelated whole, which means that:
a. people of all different races get along well together. b. subcultural variations can be tolerated and are of great benefit to a state. c. if you alter one aspect of a culture, you can drastically affect and possibly even endanger the functioning of the whole. d. primitive people live in harmony and do not require contact with other cultures, nor do they undergo internal change. e. society maintains a fragile balance that can be destroyed by any contact with an outside influence.
How is applied anthropology today different from that of the 1950s and 1960s?
a. Today more than 90% of all anthropologists work outside of the academic setting. b. In the past two decades, most applied work has been conducted by professors in academic settings. c. Applied anthropologists today are more likely to be academics than government agents. d. More of the new applied anthropologists are full-time employees of government or non-profit agencies. e. Today applied anthropologists work in both national and international settings.