An anthropologist has just arrived at a new field site and feels overwhelmed with a creepy, profound feeling of alienation, of being without some of the most ordinary, trivial (and therefore basic) cues of his culture of origin. What term best describes what he is experiencing?
A. diachrony
B. synchrony
C. agency paralysis
D. configurationalism
E. culture shock
Answer: E
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Tool traditions differ from "west to east."
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which practice is found among the Ju/’hoansi of southwestern Africa?
a. Bridewealth b. Reciprocal exchange of material goods c. Dowry d. Bride service e. Non-monetarized marriage
Which of these is an example of ethnographic analogy?
A) observing the use of tools by contemporary societies to determine how they were used thousands of years ago B) using eyewitness accounts of tool use from thousands of years ago to determine how tools were used in the past C) comparing the ways in which two contemporary cultures use the same set of tools D) using the tools found in the archaeological record to piece together an ancient culture’s religious customs
How many societies in the ethnographic record were only informally organized at the time they were first described by anthropologists?
A) 25 percent B) 50 percent C) 10 percent D) 80 percent