Chapter 1 Student Quiz 1

. An anthropologist who runs tests on how modern humans walk and what evolutionary mechanisms were at play would most likely be a(n)

. An anthropologist doing a project on how the Internet and text message technology have changed how we communicate would most likely be a __________ anthropologist.

. An anthropologist who studies how Levi's jeans are affecting fashion among rural Indonesians is a(n)

. The observation of a phenomenon followed by a hypothesis, experimentation, testing of theories, and descriptions of findings is called

. In a study where an anthropologist is collecting stories, memories, beliefs, jokes, conversations, interviews, and disagreements, he or she is collecting __________ data.

. Culture is

. ___________ is the field of study that examines moral questions of right and wrong.

. When an anthropologist studying food culture is learning how to cook a local dish with her informants, she is

. The scientific method begins with

. Industrialization is a shift from

. If an anthropologist was attempting to collect the cultural knowledge, language, and artifacts of a specific group of people, for fear they might be dying out, this person would be employing

. A linguistic anthropologist would be least interested in which of the following research projects?

. If Angela was conducting a research project where she was comparing plastic surgery clinics in the United States and South Korea, she would be employing the __________ method?

. A qualitative analysis of a needle exchange program would emphasize

. Anthropologists draw their conclusions from information they verify via observation, rather than through logic or theory alone. This research method is known as

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