Hortense Powdermaker was an early pioneer in “national character” studies
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ottenheimer describes using the tools of linguistic anthropology while serving on a committee writing policy
a. establishing a curriculum for foreign language instruction. b. regulating the use of laptops and cell phones in the classroom. c. prohibiting racial and ethnic harassment. d. designating appropriate terms of address for faculty.
The two primary schools of classification discussed in the text are
a. generalized and specialized. b. organic and inorganic. c. evolutionary systematics and cladistics. d. cladistics and noncladistics. e. ancestral and derived (modified).
The term "ethnography" refers to:
A. analysis of the chemical composition of marble. B. the study of prehistoric textiles. C. the study of racial minorities across the world. D. anthropological descriptions of living or historically known groups of people in different parts of the world.