The major purpose of anthropology is to understand other cultures. This can be accomplished most effectively in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
a. having as much specific data as possible about other cultures in the world.
b. understanding our own culture.
c. understanding how people from other cultures view us.
d. gaining a critical understanding of what makes a "good" culture.
e. having an interest in cultural diversity and change.
d
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Childrearing practices that encourage compliance in performing tasks and dependence upon the group rather than on the individual is called:
a. enculturation training. b. independence training. c. dependence training. d. transference training. e. community training.
The Sakha have had to adapt to physical and social changes over the years. Which of the following was a pre-Soviet-era adaptation?
a. consolidation of Sakha subsistence practices into sovkhozi, the agro-industrial state farm operations b. industrialization during the 1950s c. paying iasak, or fur tribute, to colonizers d. land loss due to border changes
________ coexisted with Homo erectus in Asia.
A. Kenyapithecus B. Sivapithecus C. Afropithecus D. Gigantopithecus E. Dryopithecus
Because of the objectivity of anthropological training, anthropologists are able to eliminate the biases that might affect their descriptions of culture in the field
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false