Whose job is it to identify skeletal remains?
a. Historic archaeology
b. Ethnology
c. Forensic anthropology
d. Educational anthropology
c
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Many cultures have the view that the body should be kept in __________.
A) pure form B) a state of equilibrium C) balance with nature D) shape
Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam began as __________
a. fundamentalisms b. cults c. revitalization movements d. political movements
Scholars doing "the new ethnography" argued that the categorization system encapsulated in a language, and the way a language categorized items:
a. determined the mental maturity of the people who used it. b. was more sophisticated among "civilized" peoples. c. was a model, or mental map, that speakers had for that particular part of the world. d. could help elders in that culture to resist the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
All of the following are true of Franz Boas EXCEPT:
A) he was a critic of evolution. B) he was the first professor of anthropology at Columbia University. C) he was a champion of human rights. D) he did his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands. E) he trained a generation of U.S. fieldworkers.