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Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity, 18e (Kottak)
Chapter 3 Applying Anthropology
1) Appliedanthropology is
1. A)
the purely academic dimension of anthropology.
2. B)
the term used for all anthropological research programs.
3. C)
the use of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify,
assess, and solve contemporary problems.
4. D)
rarely possible, as anthropological studies are not practical in the “real
world.”
5. E)
not guided by anthropological theory.
Answer: C
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social
problems.
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2) Which of the following does NOT illustrate the kinds of work
that applied anthropologists do?
1. A)
working for or with international development agencies, such as the World Bank
and the U.S. Agency for International Development
2. B)
helping the Environmental Protection Agency address environmental problems
3. C)
borrowing from fields such as history and sociology to broaden the scope of
theoretical anthropology
4. D)
using the tools of medical anthropology to work as cultural interpreters in
public health programs
5. E)
applying the tools of forensic anthropology to work with police, medical
examiners, the courts, and international organizations to identify victims of
crimes, accidents, wars, and terrorism
Answer: C
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social
problems.
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3) Why is ethnography one of the most valuable and distinctive
tools of the applied anthropologist?
1. A) It
is valuable insider’s data that can be routinely sold to multinational
corporations and state agencies without the consent of the people studied.
2. B) It
provides a firsthand account of the day-to-day issues and challenges that the
members of a given community face, as well as a sense of how those people think
about and react to these issues.
3. C) It
produces a statistically unbiased summary of human responses to set stimuli.
4. D) It
is among the most economical and time-efficient tools that exist in the social
sciences.
5. E) It
can be produced without leaving the comfort of the anthropologist’s office.
Answer: B
Topic: The ethics of applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to
applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by
those approaches.
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4) Which of the following is a distinguishing characteristic of
the work that applied anthropologists do?
1. A)
They enter the affected communities and talk with people.
2. B)
They gather government statistics.
3. C)
They consult project managers.
4. D)
They consult government officials and other experts.
5. E)
They promote development.
Answer: A
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social
problems.
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5) Which of the following illustrates some of the dangers of the
old applied anthropology?
1. A)
anthropologists promoting the study of their field among university
undergraduates
2. B)
anthropologists practicing participant observation and taking photographs of
ritualistic behavior
3. C) anthropologists’
work on the contrasts between urban and rural communities
4. D)
anthropologists collaborating with nongovernmental organizations in the 1980s
5. E)
anthropologists aiding colonial expansion by providing ethnographic information
to colonists
Answer: E
Topic: The ethics of applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to
applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by
those approaches.
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6) Who was studied at a distance during the 1940s in an attempt
to predict the behavior of the political enemies of the United States?
1. A)
the Koreans and English
2. B)
the Yanomami and Betsileo
3. C)
the Malagasy
4. D)
the Germans and Japanese
5. E)
the Brazilians and Indonesians
Answer: D
Topic: The ethics of applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to
applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by
those approaches.
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7) The U.S. baby boom of the late 1940s and 1950s
1. A)
fueled the general expansion of the U.S. educational system, including academic
anthropology.
2. B)
promoted renewed interest in applied anthropology during the 1950s and 1960s.
3. C)
brought anthropology into most high school curricula.
4. D)
produced a new interest in ethnic diversity.
5. E)
worked to shrink the world system.
Answer: A
Topic: The ethics of applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to
applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by
those approaches.
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8) All of the following are proper roles for applied
anthropologists EXCEPT
1. A)
identifying the needs for change that local people perceive.
2. B)
working with people to design culturally appropriate and socially sensitive
change.
3. C)
placing the cultural values of local people above all others’ cultural values.
4. D)
protecting local people from harmful policies and projects that might threaten
them.
5. E)
working as participant observers, taking part in the events they study in order
to understand local thought and behavior.
Answer: C
Topic: The ethics of applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to
applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by
those approaches.
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9) Development anthropology is the branch of applied
anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of,
which type of development?
1. A)
ethical
2. B)
theoretical
3. C)
political
4. D)
economic
5. E)
scholastic
Answer: D
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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10) What is the commonly stated goal for most development
projects?
1. A)
greater socioeconomic stratification
2. B)
ethnocide
3. C)
cultural assimilation
4. D)
decreased local autonomy
5. E)
increased equity
Answer: E
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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11) Which of the following was observed in the Bahia, Brazil,
development project in which sailboat owners got loans to buy motors, as
described in this chapter?
1. A)
Ambitious young men increasingly sought wage labor.
2. B)
The fishing community became more egalitarian.
3. C)
There was an increase in commercial sailboat ownership.
4. D)
The price of power fishing vessels decreased.
5. E)
Individual initiative was rewarded, and the fishing industry grew.
Answer: A
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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12) People are usually willing to change just enough to
maintain, or slightly improve on, what they already have. For this reason,
development projects are most likely to succeed when they avoid the fallacy of
1. A)
cultural relativism.
2. B)
ethnobias.
3. C)
overinnovation.
4. D)
underdifferentiation.
5. E)
intervention philosophy.
Answer: C
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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13) What term refers to the tendency to view less developed
countries as more alike than they are?
1. A)
cultural relativism
2. B)
ethnobias
3. C)
overinnovation
4. D)
underdifferentiation
5. E)
intervention philosophy
Answer: D
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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14) Development projects should aim to accomplish all of the
following EXCEPT
1. A)
promoting change, but not overinnovation.
2. B)
preserving local systems while working to make them better.
3. C)
respecting local traditions.
4. D)
drawing models of development from indigenous practices.
5. E)
developing strategies with little input from the local communities.
Answer: E
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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15) Which of the following is a reason that the Madagascar
project to increase rice production was successful?
1. A)
Malagasy leaders were of “the people” and were therefore prepared to follow the
descent-group ethic of pooling resources for the good of the group as a whole.
2. B)
The elites and the lower class were of different origins and thus had no strong
connections through kinship, descent, or marriage.
3. C)
There is a clear fit between capitalist development schemes and corporate
descent-group social organization.
4. D)
The project took into account the inevitability of native forms of social
organization breaking down into nuclear family organization, impersonality, and
alienation.
5. E)
The educated members of Malagasy society are those who have struggled to fend
for themselves and therefore brought an innovative kind of independence to the
project.
Answer: A
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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16) The Malagasy development program described in this chapter
illustrates the importance of
1. A)
the local government’s ability to improve the lives of its citizens, when
committed to doing so.
2. B)
replacing subsistence farming with a viable cash crop.
3. C)
replacing outdated traditional techniques of irrigation with more modern ones.
4. D)
breaking down corporate descent groups, which are too independent and interfere
with development.
5. E)
the top-down strategies developed by the UN.
Answer: A
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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17) In an example of applied anthropology’s contribution to
improving education, this chapter describes a study of Puerto Rican seventh
graders in a Midwestern U.S. urban school (Hill-Burnett, 1978). What did
anthropologists discover in this study?
1. A)
Puerto Rican students came from a background that placed less value on
education than did that of white students.
2. B)
The parents of Puerto Rican students did not value achievement.
3. C)
The Puerto Rican subjects benefited from the English-as-a-foreign-language
program.
4. D)
Puerto Ricans do not benefit from bilingual education.
5. E)
The Puerto Rican students’ education was being affected by their teachers’
misconceptions.
Answer: E
Topic: Anthropology and education
Learning Objective: Identify how anthropological research
has contributed to the field of education and to particular school
environments.
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18) Anthropology may aid in the progress of education by helping
educators avoid all of the following EXCEPT
1. A)
indiscriminate assignment of nonnative English speakers to the same classrooms
as children with “behavior problems.”
2. B)
tolerance of ethnic diversity.
3. C)
incorrect application of labels such as “learning impaired.”
4. D)
sociolinguistic discrimination.
5. E)
ethnic stereotyping.
Answer: B
Topic: Anthropology and education
Learning Objective: Identify how anthropological research
has contributed to the field of education and to particular school
environments.
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19) One of the stated goals of public anthropology is to
1. A)
oppose policies that promote injustice.
2. B)
refrain from discussion of social issues in the media.
3. C)
promote anthropology as a career, especially to minorities.
4. D)
encourage academic anthropologists to become applied anthropologists.
5. E)
restrict the publication of research papers to professional journals.
Answer: A
Topic: The work of public and applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the work of public and
applied anthropologists.
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20) Which of the following is NOT a feature of urban life?
1. A)
dispersed settlements
2. B)
high population density
3. C)
social heterogeneity
4. D)
economic differentiation
5. E)
geographic mobility
Answer: A
Topic: Urban anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the subject matter and scope
of urban anthropology.
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21) Which of the following best illustrates urban applied
anthropologists’ ability to help social groups deal with urban institutions?
1. A)
“culture at a distance” studies among Japanese and Germans in an attempt to
predict the behavior of the enemies of the United States
2. B)
Kottak’s comparative study of development projects from around the world
3. C) Vigil’s
study of gang violence in the context of large-scale immigrant adaptation to
U.S. cities
4. D)
anthropological analysis of the relation between Malagasy descent groups and
the state
5. E)
analysis of differences between personalistic and naturalistic disease theories
among the rural poor of the U.S.
Answer: C
Topic: Urban anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the subject matter and scope
of urban anthropology.
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22) Which of the following statements about medical anthropology
is TRUE?
1. A) It
is the field that proved that people from rural areas suffer only from
illnesses and not diseases.
2. B) It
applies non-Western health knowledge to a troubled industrialized medical
system.
3. C)
Typically in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, this field does market
research on the use of health products around the world.
4. D)
This field applies Western medicine to solving health problems around the
world.
5. E)
This growing field considers the biocultural context and implications of
disease and illness.
Answer: E
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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23) What is a disease?
1. A) a
health problem as it is experienced by the one affected
2. B) an
artificial product of biomedicine
3. C) a
consequence of a foraging lifestyle
4. D) an
unnatural state of health
5. E) a
scientifically identified health threat
Answer: E
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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24) What is an illness?
1. A) a
nonexistent ailment (only diseases are real)
2. B) an
artificial product of biomedicine
3. C) a
scientifically described health threat
4. D) a
purely linguistic problem
5. E) a
condition of poor health perceived by an individual
Answer: E
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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25) Shamans and other magico-religious specialists are effective
curers with regard to what kind of disease theory?
1. A)
exotic
2. B)
ritualistic
3. C)
naturalistic
4. D)
personalistic
5. E)
scientific
Answer: D
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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26) Which of the following best describes scientific medicine?
1. A)
the availability of free or low-cost health care for all
2. B) a
health care system that relies on advances in technology
3. C)
the practice of medicine in particular Western nations
4. D) a
tendency to overprescribe drugs and surgeries
5. E)
the beliefs, customs, and specialists concerned with curing illness
Answer: B
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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27) What is microenculturation?
1. A) a
condition that exists in large, industrialized states, wherein most of the
population has only a small amount of real culture
2. B)
the process whereby particular roles are learned within a limited social system
(for example, a business)
3. C)
the process whereby enculturation is accomplished through advanced media
technology
4. D)
the result of the meeting between foraging and tribal communities in less
developed countries
5. E)
enculturation based on a focused interest; for example, reruns of a TV show
like StarTrek
Answer: B
Topic: The applied anthropology of business
Learning Objective: Recall the key features of the applied
anthropology of business, including the types of research in which
anthropologists are likely to engage.
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28) Ethnographic study of the workplace
1. A)
provides evidence that economic factors are fundamental to understanding
differential productivity.
2. B) is
routinely performed by employees of the U.S. federal government.
3. C) is
not very useful, because all workplaces are becoming increasingly homogeneous,
compared to 20 years ago.
4. D)
provides close observation of workers and managers in their natural setting.
5. E) is
required of all organizations that want to become not-for-profit, according to
the American Anthropological Association.
Answer: D
Topic: The applied anthropology of business
Learning Objective: Recall the key features of the applied
anthropology of business, including the types of research in which
anthropologists are likely to engage.
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29) This chapter’s “Appreciating Diversity” account describes
how McDonald’s was able to succeed in the Brazilian market once it adapted to
preexisting Brazilian cultural patterns. This example illustrates
1. A)
how the axiom of applied anthropology that innovation succeeds best when it is
culturally appropriate applies only in Western cultures.
2. B)
the danger of applied anthropology turning itself into a tool of capitalist
interests, which always disregard the culture and well-being of the consumer.
3. C)
how the axiom of applied anthropology that innovation succeeds best when it is
culturally appropriate applies not just to development projects but also to
businesses, such as fast food.
4. D)
applied anthropology’s capacity to help foreign markets adapt to a marketing
strategy that must, above all costs, maintain the integrity of its brand.
5. E)
Brazilians’ intolerance of foreign goods, because the companies that produce
them disregard Brazilian tastes.
Answer: C
Topic: The applied anthropology of business
Learning Objective: Recall the key features of the applied
anthropology of business, including the types of research in which
anthropologists are likely to engage.
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30) Efforts to demonstrate the public policy relevance of
anthropology are known as
1. A)
ethnography.
2. B)
underdifferentiation.
3. C)
public anthropology.
4. D)
development anthropology.
5. E)
cultural resource management.
Answer: C
Topic: The work of public and applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the work of public and applied
anthropologists.
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31) Anthropology has three dimensions: academic, applied, and a
mix of the two.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic anthropology
and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social problems.
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32) Ethnography is one of applied anthropology’s most valuable
research tools, because it provides a firsthand account of the lives of ordinary
people.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social
problems.
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33) During World War II, the U.S. government recruited
anthropologists to study Japanese and German cultures. This chapter uses this
example to illustrate the dangers of the old anthropology.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social
problems.
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34) During the 1950s and 1960s, most American anthropologists
were college professors.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: The ethics of applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to
applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by
those approaches.
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35) Academic and applied anthropology have a symbiotic
relationship, as theory aids practice and application fuels theory.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social
problems.
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36) Development anthropology is the branch of applied
anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of,
moral development.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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37) A commonly stated goal of recent development policy is to
promote equity; that is, to reduce poverty and promote a more even distribution
of wealth.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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38) The Bahia, Brazil, development project in which loans were
given to fishing-boat owners is an example of how some development projects can
actually widen wealth disparities instead of increasing equity.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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39) The best strategy for change is to base the social design
for innovation on traditional forms in each target area.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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40) Fortunately for applied anthropologists eager to do
effective international work, all governments are by their nature genuinely and
realistically committed to improving the lives of their citizens.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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41) When nations become more tied to the world economy,
indigenous forms of social organization inevitably break down into nuclear
family organization, impersonality, and alienation.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Development anthropology
Learning Objective: Describe the field of development
anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of
development projects.
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42) Sociolinguists and cultural anthropologists studying Puerto
Rican communities in the Midwestern United States found that Puerto Rican
parents valued education more than non-Hispanics did.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Anthropology and education
Learning Objective: Identify how anthropological research
has contributed to the field of education and to particular school
environments.
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43) Urban anthropologists research topics such as immigration, ethnicity,
poverty, and class.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Urban anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the subject matter and scope
of urban anthropology.
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44) The Samoan community living in Los Angeles has successfully
used the matai system to deal with modern urban problems.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Urban anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the subject matter and scope
of urban anthropology.
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45) Strictly speaking, medical anthropology is an applied field
within anthropology.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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46) An illness is a scientifically identified health threat
caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, or other pathogen.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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47) Biomedicine, which aims to link an illness to scientifically
demonstrated agents that bear no personal malice toward their victims, is an
example of naturalistic medicine.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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48) Healthcaresystems refers
only to the nationalized health care services that exist in core industrial
nations.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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49) Non-Western medicine does not maintain a sharp distinction
between biological and psychological illnesses.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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50) Non-Western medicine recognizes that poor health has
intertwined physical, emotional, and social causes.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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51) Scientific medicine is not the same thing as Western
medicine.
Answer: TRUE
Topic: Medical anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize medical anthropology’s
subject matter and scope, including the three different kinds of disease
theories.
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52) A bachelor’s degree in anthropology is of little value in
the corporate world.
Answer: FALSE
Topic: Anthropology in careers and occupations
Learning Objective: Specify how people utilize
anthropology degrees in careers and occupations.
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53) Define applied
anthropology. What distinguishes the old from the new applied
anthropology? What are some current examples that raise the question of whether
or not new applied anthropology has completely moved on from the dangers of the
old?
Answer: Answers will vary
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social problems.
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54) Discuss the relevance of the ethnographic method for modern
society, contemporary problems, and applied anthropology.
Answer: Answers will vary
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social
problems.
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55) What is the relationship between theory and practice in
anthropology? Do you agree that applied anthropology should be recognized as a
separate subsection of anthropology?
Answer: Answers will vary
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social
problems.
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56) Identify government, international, and private
organizations that concern themselves with socioeconomic change abroad and hire
anthropologists to help meet their goals. Review their mission statements. Do
they make reference to the dangers of underdifferentiation or overinnovation?
Answer: Answers will vary
Topic: Defining applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic
anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social
problems.
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57) What, if anything, is the difference between an
anthropologist currently consulting on a development project in Indonesia and
another one conducting research in support of the British colonial government’s
efforts to subdue African natives in the 1930s?
Answer: Answers will vary
Topic: The ethics of applied anthropology
Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to
applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by
those approaches.
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58) There is considerable debate today over whether or not
governments should require schools to provide bilingual education for students,
and if so, to what extent this should be carried out. Pretend that you are an
anthropologist who has been asked to provide guidance on this issue to a school
board in a bilingual community. What can you suggest about the nature of
ethnicity, language, and enculturation that will help educators address their
challenges?
Answer: Answers will vary
Topic: Anthropology and education
Learning Objective: Identify how anthropological research
has contributed to the field of education and to particular school
environments.
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