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The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) is:


A) a database that provides cross-cultural data.
B) a database on all cultures involved in global warfare.
C) an institution that specializes in anthropological fieldwork.
D) a group of anthropologists that works in more than a single culture.
E) a database that provides cross-cultural data on all complex societies.

F) A) and D)
G) B) and C)

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What was "Project Camelot?"

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It was a project headed by the...

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Anthropologists do not do library research until they return from the field in order to minimize their bias.

A) True
B) False

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Malinowski's and Boas's practices of anthropology were alike in many ways.All of the following are things that they shared except:


A) Both were committed fieldworkers.
B) Both saw other cultures as fully rational.
C) Both valued the study of history as essential to a deeper understand of societies.
D) Both were scholars who opposed racism.
E) Both were innovative in the approach to fieldwork in anthropology.

F) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

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Which of the following individuals worked to create the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) ?


A) Bronislaw Malinowski and Franz Boas
B) Franz Boas and Herbert Spencer
C) Herbert Spencer and Albert Keller
D) Albert Keller and George Murdock
E) George Murdock and Herbert Spencer

F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

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How would you describe Lewis Henry Morgan's and Edward Tylor's evolutionary theories?


A) They studied how humans have changed from simple to complex communication and transportation systems.
B) They studied how societies have harnessed more energy for production over time.
C) They studied how the human body has changed physically from earlier to later forms,sometimes even changing species.
D) They studied the history of human society from simple to complex technology and social institutions.
E) They studied all of these things.

F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

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Anthropologists' work as researchers for the U.S.military raises concerns about:


A) the integrity of the discipline itself.
B) obligations to those whom anthropologists study.
C) perils for the broader academic community.
D) issues of secrecy and transparency.
E) all of these choices.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Which of the following was the core belief of Franz Boas?


A) That cultures are adapted to their own ecosystems
B) That all aspects of culture are symbolic and serve to create meaning
C) That cultures are products of their own histories
D) That cultures are composed of functional,interrelating parts
E) That culture is reflected with the linguistic system (the language spoken)

F) None of the above
G) A) and C)

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How is anthropology unique among other disciplines?


A) It involves the study of humans.
B) It requires that scholars work overseas.
C) It is based on first-hand fieldwork.
D) It generates social theories.
E) It was founded in the United States.

F) A) and E)
G) D) and E)

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All of the following are true of Franz Boas,except:


A) he was a critic of evolution.
B) he was the first professor of anthropology at Columbia University.
C) he was a champion of human rights.
D) he did his fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands.
E) he trained a generation of U.S.fieldworkers.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Anthropologists have become more sensitive to issues of voice and of power and have begun to reflect more critically on their role as observer in another culture primarily as a result of:


A) reflectionist ethnology.
B) Franz Boas.
C) feminist anthropology.
D) collaborative ethnography.
E) postmodernism.

F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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How is Malinowski's approach to the study of cultures different from Boas's?


A) Malinowski was an evolutionist and Boas was a critic of evolutionism.
B) Their approaches are similar,except that Franz Boas did not actually carry out fieldwork.
C) Boas focused on the study of child-rearing,while Malinowski focused on the study of history and body measurements.
D) Malinowski focused on the study of social institutions and function,while Boas focused on the study of history and adaptation.
E) Boas focused on the study of history and adaptation and Malinowski focused on the study of child-rearing.

F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

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In mild cases,ethnocentrism is adaptive for human society.

A) True
B) False

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Anthropological interview techniques:


A) are always the same from field project to field project.
B) always involve the same processes and same steps of procedure.
C) are no longer used in contemporary fieldwork.
D) have been adapted from philosophy.
E) are highly varied and are situation-specific.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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All of the following concepts were either founded or developed by Franz Boas in his fieldwork and analysis of human cultures except:


A) reflexive approach.
B) participant observation.
C) cultural relativism.
D) human rights and justice.
E) search for racial equality.

F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

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