WorksheetsAnthropology final review
Total questions: 62
Worksheet time: 31mins
Who established the four subfields of anthropology and introduced cultural relativism?
Franz Boas
Margaret Mead
Bronisław Malinowski
Lewis Henry Morgan
Who are the founders of Partners in Health and known for medical and applied anthropology?
Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim
Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin
William Osler and Harvey Cushing
Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton
Who argued that gender roles are culturally created and not biologically fixed?
Margaret Mead
Sigmund Freud
Charles Darwin
Emile Durkheim
Who studies how indigenous cultures use plants and advocates for preserving cultural and environmental diversity?
Wade Davis
Jane Goodall
Carl Linnaeus
Richard Dawkins
Who is known as the father of documentation for indigenous peoples' lives?
Robert Flaherty
Edward S. Curtis
Margaret Mead
Bronisław Malinowski
Who was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance and researched Black American and Caribbean folklore?
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Countee Cullen
Who criticized anthropologists for personally benefitting from their work?
Vine Deloria Jr.
Margaret Mead
Bronisław Malinowski
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Who argued that cultures universally define culture in opposition to nature?
Claude Levi-Strauss
Bronislaw Malinowski
Margaret Mead
Edward Tylor
What is the term for the cultural traditions of cooking and preparing food that change slowly in all settings but more quickly in urban areas than in rural areas?
Cuisine
Agriculture
Migration
Urbanization
What are foods that one should eat and are considered culturally appropriate, regarded for special holidays and feasts called?
Food Prescriptions
Daily Staples
Fast Foods
Convenience Foods
What is the system of segregation that divides those with access to an abundance of nutritious foods and those who have been denied that access due to systemic injustice called?
Food Apartheid
Nutritional Disparity
Dietary Segregation
Gastronomic Inequality
What are foods that are prohibited and are not considered proper as food, also called food taboos, often originating in religious beliefs?
Food Proscriptions
Food Preferences
Food Supplements
Food Additives
What is the term for studying early human diets to understand human evolution and the connection of food to almost all human activities?
Food Artifacts
Culinary Genetics
Agricultural Engineering
Nutritional Chemistry
What is a societal collection, production, and consumption of food called?
Foodways
Ecosystem
Agronomy
Cuisine
What are areas that lack access to nutritious and affordable foods, where poverty rates go up and supermarkets availability goes down, called?
Food Deserts
Green Zones
Urban Oases
Market Hubs
Nutrition Centers
What are areas that have high access to supermarkets and fresh foods called?
Food Oases
Food Deserts
Urban Jungles
Grocery Gaps
What is the term for placing plants of different types near each other in beneficial ways?
Intercropping
Monoculture
Deforestation
Hydroponics
What is the philosophical viewpoint arguing that human beings are the central or most significant entities in the world called?
Anthropocentrism
Ecocentrism
Theocentrism
Biocentrism
What is the maintenance of juvenile physical and behavioral characteristics into adulthood called?
Neoteny
Metamorphosis
Senescence
Mitosis
What is herding based on the availability of resources, involving unpredictable movements, more involved in the lives of the animals they rely on, called?
Nomadic Pastoralism
Sedentary Agriculture
Transhumance
Subsistence Farming
What is designed to be sustainable and to help preserve the flora and fauna of endangered natural environments called?
Ecotourism
Deforestation
Urbanization
Industrialization
What is marked by demonstrative affection between people and their animals and economic industries devoted to pets called?
Pet keeping
Animal husbandry
Wildlife conservation
Livestock farming
Veterinary medicine
What is ecotourism critiqued as when it promotes the natural environment as an attraction while also engaging in exploitative and environmentally destructive behavior?
Greenwashing
Sustainable tourism
Eco-innovation
Biodiversity enhancement
What is the belief system in which a cultural group acknowledges kinship with a spirit being that serves as a group's emblem called?
Totemism
Animism
Shamanism
Polytheism
What focuses on interactions between humans and other species of animals as well as plants, fungi, and microbes, and studies symbiosis, the mutually beneficial relationships between species?
Multispecies Ethnography
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology
Archaeology
What are patterned movements from one location to another, dependent on trade with agricultural society for products called?
Transhumant Pastoralists
Nomadic Herders
Sedentary Farmers
Hunter-Gatherers
What is a community owned and operated, staffed by groups of professionals and volunteers called?
Community Radio
Private Radio Station
Commercial TV Channel
Government News Agency
What is the shared space—social, cultural, or digital—where people communicate, form opinions, and engage in collective life, and anthropologists study it to understand how culture, power, and identity shape public discussion and participation?
Public Sphere
Private Domain
Social Network
Personal Space
What is the definition of Independent Media?
Privately owned
Government controlled
State sponsored
Publicly funded
What does Sociality refer to in anthropology?
Participation in social relations, how people construct and maintain their personal and group relationships
The study of ancient artifacts and fossils
The classification of languages and dialects
The measurement of population growth rates
What is Mass Media?
Mechanically reproduced forms of communication targeting large audiences, is key in preserving and transmitting traditional cultures as well as modernity
A form of communication limited to small groups and private conversations
A method of transmitting information only through oral traditions
A system of communication that excludes technology and modern devices
State Media is:
Entirely or partially owned by a government
Owned by private corporations only
Run exclusively by non-profit organizations
Operated solely by independent journalists
Media Ideologies are:
Sets of ideas about the uses and functions of a particular genre of media
Rules governing the ownership of media companies
Technological limitations of media devices
Government policies on media censorship
Visual Anthropology is:
The use of visual media as either a research method or research topic
The study of ancient languages through visual scripts
The analysis of economic systems using visual charts
The exploration of political ideologies through visual propaganda
What does Art represent in anthropology?
A representation of the human experience
A scientific formula for evolution
A method for dating fossils
A tool for genetic analysis
Performance in anthropology refers to:
A musical, dramatic, or other form of entertainment presented before an audience
A method of data collection involving only written surveys
A statistical analysis of genetic variation
A study of ancient tools and artifacts
What is Cultural Appropriation?
The adoption of cultural identity markers from subcultures or minority communities into mainstream culture by people with a relatively privileged status, it reflects social inequality
The celebration of all aspects of a culture by its original members only
The legal protection of cultural symbols and traditions
The rejection of mainstream culture by minority communities
Rezball is:
Reservation ball, a style of basketball played in Native American reservation communities
A traditional Native American dance
A type of lacrosse played in Canada
A ceremonial feast in Native American culture
What does Ethnomusicology study?
The study of music in its social and cultural contexts
The study of ancient architecture
The study of plant biology
The study of economic systems
What is Sacrification?
Branding, burning or etching of designs into skin, body art
A type of hair styling technique
A method of cooking meat
A traditional dance form
Iconographic Study examines:
The symbols, motifs, and imagery in art or cultural objects to understand what they represent and what cultural ideas, beliefs, or values they express
The chronological order of historical events
The economic impact of art on society
The technical process of creating artworks
Visual Anthropology (art) is:
The study of art as represented in photography and film, includes all visual representations produced by human cultures
The study of ancient languages through visual symbols
The analysis of economic systems using visual data
The exploration of human genetics through artistic expression
What does Biocultural Approach acknowledge?
Links between culture and biology
Differences between physics and chemistry
Separation of art and science
Exclusion of environmental factors
Epigenetics refers to:
The study of how environmental, social, and cultural factors can influence gene expression across a person's lifetime—sometimes even across generations—without changing the DNA sequence itself
The process of DNA replication during cell division
The inheritance of physical traits through Mendelian genetics
The mutation of genes caused by exposure to radiation
What is Biomedicine?
An ethnomedical system shaped by European and North American history, rooted in the cultural system of Western science, scientific method
A traditional healing practice based on herbal remedies and spiritual beliefs
A system of medicine that exclusively uses homeopathic treatments
A holistic approach focusing only on mental health and meditation
Ethnomedicine is:
A society's cultural knowledge about health management and treatments for illness, sickness and disease
A modern approach to pharmaceutical drug development
A system of healthcare based only on technology
A method of treating diseases using only surgical procedures
Critical Medical Anthropology focuses on:
Inequalities of health outcomes caused by political and economic hierarchies
The study of ancient medical practices
Genetic factors influencing disease
Technological advancements in medicine
Culture-Bound Syndromes are:
Unique ways in which a particular culture conceptualizes the manifestations of mental illness
Universal mental disorders found in all cultures
Physical illnesses caused by cultural practices
Genetic disorders prevalent in specific ethnic groups
Medical Ecology studies:
The effects of environment on lifestyle and health
The history of medical discoveries
The structure of human DNA
The process of drug development
Cultural Concepts of Distress are:
Ways that cultures explain and conceptualize unique manifestations of mental illness as physical or social symptoms
Methods for diagnosing physical illnesses in different cultures
Traditional healing rituals used for physical injuries
Common dietary practices in various cultures
Social Health includes:
The cultural and political-economic forces shaping the health of individuals and communities
Only the physical fitness of an individual
The ability to perform mathematical calculations
The study of weather patterns
Assimilation is:
The process of changing the culture of a person or group, to another culture, through socialization or education
The process of learning a new language without changing cultural identity
The act of preserving traditional customs and beliefs
The separation of different cultural groups within a society
Oral Tradition refers to:
Stories, myths, songs, rituals, and cultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation
Written records kept in libraries and archives
Modern technology used to record history
Official government documents and decrees
Blood Quantum is:
A genealogical relationship to one's original tribal people
A measure of blood pressure in the body
A scientific term for blood types
A method for determining age based on blood analysis
Othering means:
Viewing those from different cultures or backgrounds as inherently different from one's own 'type' of people
Accepting all cultures as equal and similar to one's own
Ignoring cultural differences and focusing only on similarities
Promoting unity by eliminating all cultural distinctions
Native Studies are:
Programs starting in the 1970s to give Indigenous scholars more opportunities to conduct research on their own peoples
A branch of biology focusing on native plant species
A set of laws governing native land rights
A historical analysis of European colonization methods
Termination (policy) refers to:
In 1953, the US adopted a federal policy that voided the treaty agreements between the federal government and Native peoples
A policy that granted Native Americans full citizenship rights in 1924
A policy that established reservations for Native Americans in the 1800s
A policy that provided federal funding for Native American education programs
Oral Histories are:
Anthropologists first treated these like myths, but the events described in many oral histories align with geological events and archaeological evidence
Stories invented for entertainment with no factual basis
Written records kept by ancient civilizations
Scientific reports published in academic journals
What is an Asset in anthropology?
A tool or condition that can be harnessed to increase value and effect positive change
A type of ancient artifact found in archaeological sites
A traditional belief system passed down through generations
A ritual performed to honor ancestors
What is the Ethnosphere?
The sum total of all of human knowledge across time
A type of atmosphere found only on Earth
A collection of ancient artifacts
A scientific term for global warming
Biodiversity refers to:
The variety of plants and animals that exist on Earth and form a living ecosystem
The process of photosynthesis in plants
The study of weather patterns
The movement of tectonic plates
Values in anthropology are:
The study of culture intersects with each of the four subfields and highlights the importance of diversity
A set of economic principles unique to each society
Strict biological traits passed down through generations
Universal laws that apply to all human societies
