There is a wide variety of words that are common in anthropology class, if one is not keen they may get confused by some of them. The quiz below has a list of terms commonly used in anthropology and if you have been attentive in class you should be able to get the highest score. Give it a shot!
Ethnography
Data collection
Ethnology
Fieldwork
Data entry
The study of biological adaptability
The fieldwork aspect of cultural anthropology
The study of animal behaviour
The comparative component of cultural anthropology
The generalising aspect of cultural anthropology
It is a cultural universal, based upon the human capacity to use symbols
It is the argument that behaviour of a particular culture should not be judged by the standards of another culture
It is a cultural particular, based upon the interrelatedness of humans
Is it the opposite of participant observation
It is the same thing as ethnocentrism, but is applies only to family structure
All human groups have culture
Culture is the main reason for human adaptability
Human groups differ in their capacities for culture
The capacity for culture is shared by all humans
Cultural learning is uniquely elaborated among humans
Acculturation
Diffusion
Globalisation
Enculturation
Independent invention
Incest
Exogamy
Hypogamy
Endogamy
Endosperm
Polygamy
Brideweath
Dowry
Progeny Price
Bride Serive
It increases the number of individuals on whom one can rely in time of need
It increases the likelihood that disadvantageous alleles will find phenotypic expression and thus be eliminated from the population
It impedes peaceful relations among social groups and therefore promotes population expansion
It was an important causal factor in the origin of the state
It is not adaptive, it is just a cultural construction
Friend and teacher
Key informant
Privileged stranger
Participant observer
Incorporated tribe member
Were based on incorrect data
Were developed by colonial governments
Were developed to support missionary work
Were based on very little ethnographic data
Miss interpreted cultural people as savages
Failure to adequately supply technology
Failure to employ technical aid experts to assess the plan
Technical practices on the part of anthropologists
Failure to understand the impact of cultural issues on change
Disrupts cultural processes
Acculturation
Enculturation
Invention
Hegemony
Deffered exchange
Desire for economic gain
Appeals to nationalism
Competition
Cultural ethnocentrism
Population growth
Colonialism
Hegemony
Imperialism
Globalisation
Bow, pottery, and fire
Blowgun, baskets, and fire
Digging stick, spear, and fire
Spear, bronze axe, and fire
Pottery, blade, and fire
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Food storage encourages mobility and sharing
There is no particular advantage in long term control of a labor force
Daily food harvest and consumption foster higher population density and greater household autonomy
There is no basis for differences in social status based on age or sex
Maximize leisure, household autonomy, and labor equality between men and women
Increased garden work by women and supports non-food producing specialists
Involves continuous work from tropical dawn to dusk to satisfy all basic needs, but labor equitably shared by men and women
Causes men do the garden clearing, hunting and fishing, and thus put in significantly longer hours than women
The inheritance of land through the female line
The importance of female task groups for such activities as manioc processing
Female-centered religious cults
A high rate of selective female infanticide
The inheritance of land through the male line
Male-centered sacred sites
Revenge raiding
The importance of clans and lineages
Are an underlying cause of intervillage feuding and violent conflict
Are carried out for strictly utilitarian economic motives
Reduce the potential for intervillage conflict
Are regulated by the respective village headmen in order to enhance their political power
The potential for my wives to sustain the populace
Because aggressive behaviour increases the reproductive success of individual men
Because of protein deficiencies
Because the recent introduction of bananas and plantains lead to a population explosion
Because of the universal innate human propensity for violence
Held that things which were once part of someone could still influence that person even after they were separated
Ignored contradictions, assuming that something could be two things at once
Used a limited set of signs ordered into structured relationships that help people understand reality while providing aesthetic satisfaction
Followed logical mental processes basically like our own
Increasing urbanization and political complexity has lead to a loss of detailed knowledge of plants and animals
Knowledge of nature steadily increases within a society as cultural scale increases
Abstract life form terms such as tree, grass, bush, and vine tend to disappear from a language as culture scale increases
Contrary to Levi-Strauss, the "science of the concrete" is more characteristic of folk classifications used by urbanized societies than by peoples in domestic-scale cultures 31.
Belief in the inherent superiority of a line of descent
Temporary leadership, selected according to pragmatic or utilitarian principles
Self-made leaders who must continually verify their positions by success in warfare
Leaders like Amazonian headmen who had to be generous and diplomatic
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