Mirror for Humanity A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 12th Edition By Kottak – Test Bank

Chapter 11

Applying Anthropology

1. Applied anthropology is

A. the purely academic dimension of anthropology.

B. rarely possible, as anthropological studies are not practical in the “real world.”

C. the use of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary problems.

D. the term used for all anthropological research programs.

E. not guided by anthropological theory.

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Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social problems.

Topic: What Is Applied Anthropology?

2. Which of the following does NOT illustrate the kinds of work that applied anthropologists do?

A. borrowing from fields such as history and sociology to broaden the scope of theoretical anthropology

B. helping the Environmental Protection Agency address environmental problems

C. using the tools of medical anthropology to work as cultural interpreters in public health programs

D. 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

E. working for or with international development agencies, such as the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development

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Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social problems.

Topic: What Is Applied Anthropology?

3. Why is ethnography one of the most valuable and distinctive tools of the applied anthropologist?

A. It is among the most economical and time-efficient tools that exist in the social sciences.

B. It produces a statistically unbiased summary of human responses to set stimuli.

C. 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.

D. It is valuable insider’s data that can be routinely sold to multinational corporations and state agencies without the consent of the people studied.

E. It can be produced without leaving the comfort of the anthropologist’s office.

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Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social problems.

Topic: What Is Applied Anthropology?

4. Which of the following is a distinguishing characteristic of the work that applied anthropologists do?

A. They consult government officials and other experts.

B. They gather government statistics.

C. They enter the affected communities and talk with people.

D. They consult project managers.

E. They promote development.

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Learning Objective: Distinguish between academic anthropology and applied anthropology, particularly as they relate to social problems.

Topic: What Is Applied Anthropology?

5. Which of the following illustrates some of the dangers of the old applied anthropology?

A. anthropologists aiding colonial expansion by providing ethnographic information to colonists

B. anthropologists practicing participant observation and taking photographs of ritualistic behavior

C. anthropologists’ work on the contrasts between urban and rural communities

D. anthropologists promoting the study of their field among university undergraduates

E. anthropologists collaborating with nongovernmental organizations in the 1980s

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Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by those approaches.

Topic: The Role of the Applied Anthropologist

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?

A. the Koreans and English

B. the Yanomami and Betsileo

C. the Malagasy

D. the Germans and Japanese

E. the Brazilians and Indonesians

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Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by those approaches.

Topic: The Role of the Applied Anthropologist

7. The U.S. baby boom of the late 1940s and 1950s

A. brought anthropology into most high school curricula.

B. worked to shrink the world system.

C. produced a new interest in ethnic diversity.

D. fueled the general expansion of the U.S. educational system, including academic anthropology.

E. promoted renewed interest in applied anthropology during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by those approaches.

Topic: The Role of the Applied Anthropologist

8. All of the following are proper roles for applied anthropologists EXCEPT

A. protecting local people from harmful policies and projects that might threaten them.

B. working with people to design culturally appropriate and socially sensitive change.

C. identifying the needs for change that local people perceive.

D. working as participant observers, taking part in the events they study in order to understand local thought and behavior.

E. placing the cultural values of local people above all others’ cultural values.

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Learning Objective: Summarize the historical approaches to applying anthropological knowledge, including the ethical issues raised by those approaches.

Topic: The Role of the Applied Anthropologist

9. Development anthropology is the branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of, which type of development?

A. scholastic

B. economic

C. political

D. theoretical

E. ethical

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Learning Objective: Describe the field of development anthropology, and the factors that contribute to the success or failure of development projects.

Topic: Development Anthropology

10. What is the commonly stated goal for most development projects?

A. decreased local autonomy

B. ethnocide

C. cultural assimilation

D. greater socioeconomic stratification

E. increased equity