HSP Anthropology Test Review

What are the 5 Schools of Thought in Cultural Anthropology?

​ (a)   ​​ (b)   ​ ​ (c)   ​ (d)   ​ (e)  

• Cultural Relativism
• Functional Theory
• Cultural Materialism
• Feminist Anthropology
• Postmodernism
• Reflexivity
• Participant Observation
• Ethnocentrism

Which Cultural Anthropology School of Thought states that an anthropologist cannot compare two cultures because each has its own internal rules that must be accepted

• Cultural Relativism

• Functional Theory

• Cultural Materialism

• Postmoderism

What is the main method used to study cultures?

• Interviews

• Photos

• Participant Observation

• Mapping

Which anthropology studied the Yanomami Indigeous peoples in the Amazon Rainforest?

• Margaret Mead

• Napoleon Chagnon

• Patrick Tierney

• Jane Goodall

What are the 3 branches of Cultural Anthropology?​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)  

• Ethnology
• Linguistic Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Interviews
• Participant Observation
• Physical Anthropology

Which is NOT a method used by Cultural Anthropologists

• Interviews

• Photographs

• Mapping

• Experimenting on People

When conducting an interview, what is one thing that the interviewer does not need to explain to the informant?

• The purpose of the research

• How many people they will be interviewing

• How information will be used

• The level of confidentiality

​Open-ended questions are commonly asked during ​ ​ (a)   Interviews and ​close-ended questions are asked during ​ ​ (b)  

• Unstructured Interviews
• Structured Interviews

What are the 3 Areas of Physical Anthropology?

• Palaeontology, Archaeology, and Ethnography

• Primates, Humans, Hominins

• Bipedalism, Foramen Magnum, and Sagittal Crest

• Paleoanthropology, Primatology, and Human Variation

What is the name of the skeleton that was found in Ethiopia in 1974 that was 40% complete?

• Lucy

• Lily

• Beth

• Robert