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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)
G) B) and C)
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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.
G) C) and D)
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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.
G) B) and E)
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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.
G) None of the above
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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.
G) C) and E)
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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.
G) C) and D)
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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
G) B) and D)
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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.
G) B) and E)
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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.
G) A) and B)
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B) False
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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.
G) C) and D)
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B) False
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A) reflexive approach.
B) participant observation.
C) cultural relativism.
D) human rights and justice.
E) search for racial equality.
G) A) and D)
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A) reflectionist ethnology.
B) Franz Boas.
C) feminist anthropology.
D) collaborative ethnography.
E) postmodernism.
G) A) and E)
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