Topic 1 (Locating Anthropology and Sociology)

A physical anthropologist studies:

• The cultures of the human species.
• Language as a human characteristic.
• Humans as a biological species.
• The fragile remains of past cultures.

A biological anthropologist would probably not focus on:

• Variations in cultural systems.
• Primatology.
• Genetics.
• Evolution.

Archaeology includes the topic of:

• material/cultural remains
• universal features of language
• political systems
• Human cultural expression.

Which field of anthropology would most likely be interested in the marriage patterns and kinship systems of different societies around the world?

• cultural anthropology
• linguistic anthropology
• zooarchaeology
• all of the above

Anthropology is different from most other disciplines in that it:

• Is more concerned with resource allocation.
• Is holistic as it searches for interrelationships.
• Was the first formal science to emerge.
• Focuses on past cultures.

All of the following are considered a subfield of cultural anthropology except:

• Variation in cultural systems.
• Processes of cultural change.
• Culture as a trait of the species.
• Cultural resource management

An anthropologist would probably not study:

• Primates and their behavior.
• Human remains.
• Dinosaur bones.
• Changes in a language.

Understanding the behavior of the human species requires:

• Limiting one's focus to either biology or culture.
• Limiting one's focus to either evolution or the present.
• Adopting a holistic approach to biology and behavior.
• Understanding how environment determines behavior.

Which of the following is true about anthropology?

• It usually is preferable to do anthropological research alone rather than with a team of researchers.
• Anthropology as an academic discipline is comparatively young. Its roots go back to the intellectual Enlightenment of the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and North America.
• Most anthropologists today are generalists--they master all of the fields of anthropology.
• All professional anthropologists now work in colleges, universities, or museums.

Which field of anthropology is primarily concerned with the non-cultural aspects of humans and near-humans?

• archaeology
• biological anthropology
• linguistic anthropology
• cultural anthropology