GLST 290 Quiz 1 Anthropology

GLST 290 Quiz 1 Liberty University

GLST 290 Quiz 1 Anthropology and Worldview

1. Collecting a life history of a single person is a legitimate technique for ethnographers.
2. A Biblical Worldview is based on the teachings of popular religious leaders.
3. Ethnographic interviews may be very informal and conversational or highly structured and formal.
4. Early anthropologists assumed that cultures evolved as biological organisms do, from simple to complex.
5. Which of the following is NOT true regarding globalization?
6. Which of the following is usually NOT an element of participant-observation?
7. Worldview influences what we believe is true, what we value, what we think is best, and what we do.
8. It is ethically acceptable for anthropologists to become part of the community they are studying.
9. Cultural traits are not inevitable outcomes of the biology of the people who practice those traits.
10. Monogenesis is the view that all humans originate from a single creation of God.
11. Applied anthropology can occur in any of the traditional four subfields.
12. We must not engage people with different worldviews.
13. If travel is costly or impossible, a good ethnography may be written from library sources.
14. We can acknowledge that someone has a different worldview and continue to interact even though we may disagree with them.
15. Everyone is ethnocentric to some degree.
16. A person with a Biblical Worldview believes that humans were made by a sovereign, all powerful creator God who knows and loves His creation.
17. Archaeology is the branch of anthropology specifically devoted to solving practical problems and addressing social concerns.
18. According to Kwast’s model, belief is at the core and it shapes all of the other layers of culture.
19. A Biblical Worldview is based on what is written in the Bible.
20. A life history is ____________; a focus group is ______________.
21. The ethnographic standard for legitimate knowledge is
22. Beliefs answer the question: what is true?
23. Cultural traits are best understood in relation to their own history and context. This sentence most centrally expresses
24. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of culture? Culture is
25. Ethnographic fieldwork is anthropology s hallmark research method.
26. When language is studied in relation to larger social systems, this is called sociolinguistics.
27. Worldview leads us to believe and value certain things about life and our purpose, and those beliefs and values lead to certain behaviors.
28. Participant observation sometimes involves tricking people into participating, but this is considered necessary deception.
29. Worldview is the filter through which we interpret what we see in the world.
30. Culture is

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1. In anthropology today, going native is generally considered patronizing and unconvincing.
2. Large-scale societies have power dynamics associated with culture, but small-scale societies do not.
3. Cultural traits are not inevitable outcomes of the biology of the people who practice those traits.
4. Elisa wants to study the simple stone tools used by humans in the ancient past. Which branch of anthropology should she pursue?
5. The ethnic fair model accurately portrays culture.
6. The word Anthropology comes from Anthropos, meaning ________ and -ology, meaning ________.
7. A life history is ____________; a focus group is ______________.
8. Collecting a life history of a single person is a legitimate technique for ethnographers.
9. It is possible for a Christian to reject culture, becoming just a Christian, without a culture.
10. The ethnic fair model accurately portrays culture.
11. Early anthropologists assumed that cultures evolved as biological organisms do, from simple to complex.
12. In his fieldwork in the Philippines, when did Brian Howell know he had established rapport with research participants?
13. By the 20th century, armchair anthropology was rejected, and ___________ was seen as the best method for truly understanding different societies.
14. Some people have more culture than others.
15. Ethnographic fieldwork is anthropology s hallmark research method.