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Chapter 2. Anthropological Methods: Practice Quiz

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  • 1) Anthropologists working in a community gathering data are:

    • agenerally aloof and standoffish so they don’t form personal relations that get in the way of their scientific observations
    • bconcerned with reciprocity, that is, how they can repay their informants for their time and effort
    • cunconcerned with how the community views them
    • dsee themselves as teachers, there to change the ways of the community
  • 2) George Hunt was:

    • athe founder of the school of thought known as structuralism
    • bthe key informant of Franz Boas in his studies among the Kwakiutl
    • cthe inventor of anthropology
    • da nineteenth-century armchair scholar
  • 3) Being reflexive in ethnography means the same thing as being scientific and objective.

    • atrue
    • bfalse
  • 4) A total social phenomenon is one in which the entire community is involved and that has important economic and political elements.

    • atrue
    • bfalse
  • 5) Salvage anthropology is the study of waste and garbage.

    • atrue
    • bfalse
  • 6) George Hunt was Franz Boas’s key informant.

    • atrue
    • bfalse
  • 7) While doing fieldwork an anthropologist:

    • alives in the community being studied
    • bparticipates in daily life and activities
    • clearns the language
    • ddoes all of the above
  • 8) Participant observation involves living with other people, learning their language, and understanding their behavior and ideas.

    • atrue
    • bfalse
  • 9) In a Kwakiutl wedding the bride and groom are the primary focus of all the rituals.

    • atrue
    • bfalse
  • 10) Anthropologists gain information by interviewing individuals in the culture, who are referred to as local guides.

    • atrue
    • bfalse
  • 11) A potlatch is a large-scale ceremonial distribution of important material goods that enhances the political prestige of the donor.

    • atrue
    • bfalse
  • 12) An ethnography that traces one phenomenon across borders and through transnational communities is referred to as:

    • ahistorical
    • bmulti-sited
    • ccommunity study
    • durban anthropology
  • 13) One major difference between the Kwakiutl wedding and the American "white wedding" is:

    • aThe focus in the Kwakiutl wedding is on the families of the bride and groom, while in the American "white wedding" the focus is on the couple.
    • bThe Kwakiutl wedding brings together families of different socioeconomic statuses; the American "white wedding" is between equals.
    • cThe American "white wedding" is only about religion and ritual; money and consumption play no part in the ceremony, while they are important in the Kwakiutl wedding.
    • dThere are no differences—brides and grooms are the same the world over.
  • 14) A numaym is the Kwakiut term for a group of relatives.

    • atrue
    • bfalse
  • 15) A Kwakiutl wedding is marked by massive distribution of valued material goods like blankets.

    • atrue
    • bfalse