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Question
Populations in equatorial Africa and Papua New Guinea are quite similar phenotypically, dark skinned with similar hair and facial features. How would the existence of a typical racial model explain these similarities? How would evolutionary biology's explanation differ? Which model does a better job of explaining the data?
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B. Everyday cultural patterns are full of senseless cultural "noise," and it is the anthropologist's job to get at the truly valuable behaviors that distinguish one culture from another.
C. Everyday cultural patterns of native life can best be studied by asking key informants to explain them.
D. Features of everyday culture are, at first, imponderable, but as the ethnographer builds rapport, their logic and functional value in society become clear.
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B. the biological perspective
C. ethnography
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C. Subcultures have shared learning experiences.
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C. the incest taboo
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A. it exhibits cultural traits that are not shared with the majority of the group.
B. it threatens the core values of a culture that guarantee its integration.
C. cultural traits diminish the survival of particular individuals but not others.
D. cultural traits, patterns, and inventions disrupt the world economy, causing international discontent.
E. cultural traits, patterns, and inventions threaten the group's continued survival and reproduction and thus its very existence.
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B. People use culture to develop artistic endeavors, including musical instruments and visual arts.
C. People use culture to advance civilization.
D. Culture is a human construct.
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B. Kottak's comparative study of development projects from around the world
C. Vigil's study of gang violence in the context of large-scale immigrant adaptation to U.S. cities
D. anthropological analysis of the relation between Malagasy descent groups and the state
E. analysis of differences between personalistic and naturalistic disease theories among rural poor of the U.S.
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A. greater socioeconomic stratification
B. ethnocide
C. cultural assimilation
D. decreased local autonomy
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C. post traumatic stress
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A. medical anthropology, ethnography, ethnology, and cultural anthropology
B. archaeology, biological anthropology, applied linguistics, and applied anthropology
C. biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology
D. genetic anthropology, physical anthropology, psychological anthropology, and linguistic and anthropology
E. primatology, ethnology, cultural anthropology, and paleoscatology
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Today's global economy and communications link all contemporary people, directly or indirectly, in the modern world system. People must now cope with forces generated by progressively larger systemsthe region, the nation, and the world. For anthropologists studying contemporary forms of adaptation, why might this be a challenge?
A. Truly isolated indigenous communities, anthropology's traditional and ongoing study focus, are becoming harder to find.
B. According to Marcus and Fischer (1986), "The cultures of world peoples need to be constantly rediscovered as these people reinvent them in changing historical circumstances."
C. A more dynamic world system, with greater and faster movements of people across space, speeds up the process of evolution, making the study of genetic adaptations more difficult.
D. Anthropological research tools do not work in this new modern world system, making their contributions less valuable.
E. Since cultures are tied to place, people moving around and connecting across space means the end of culture, and thus the end of anthropology.