Applied Anthropology Exam Prep Scupin Ch.17

Test Bank

Chapter 17: Applied Anthropology

Multiple Choice

1. The difference between applied anthropology and the other subdisciplines is the ______.

a. objectives

b. methodology

c. theoretical perspectives

d. location of the field

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Which of the following is true about applied anthropologists who work in policy?

a. They make recommendations about profit maximization.

b. They provide raw data so that others can write policy.

c. They ensure that all new laws consider the needs of marginalized people.

d. They face resistance to their suggestions that limit their effectiveness.

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. What is one critique of anthropologists in advocate or activist roles?

a. They do not do a good job

b. They should be doing research that helps marginalized people

c. They should prioritize local voices

d. They are not effective at getting governments to listen to them.

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Applied anthropologists conducting social impact studies are drawn from the ______ subfield.

a. archaeology

b. cultural anthropology

c. biological anthropology

d. linguistics

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist in Planned Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. In Scudder and Colson’s involuntary resettlement model, which phase would involve informing a group that they will be resettled elsewhere?

a. recruitment

b. transition

c. potential development

d. incorporation

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist in Planned Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Why are applied anthropologists are happy when their roles as advocates become unnecessary?

a. It means governments have taken on advocacy roles instead.

b. It allows them to find a new job.

c. It proves that the problems they have been working on have been solved.

d. It means local populations have achieved sufficient political power to advocate for themselves.

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist in Planned Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. What is one way that applied anthropologists can advocate for local communities without speaking over local voices?

a. Staying out of local political issues

b. Asserting their authority as experts on local groups

c. Co-producing knowledge with local people as partners

d. Working with indigenous leaders one-on-one

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist in Planned Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. ______ calls for archaeologists to repatriate indigenous human remains to the groups to whom they belong.

a. NHPA

b. NAGPRA

c. USAID

d. NGO

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Policies designed to ______ are part of the sustainability model.

a. involve locals in policy decisions

b. disseminate anthropological knowledge to all levels of government

c. protect archaeological artifacts during planned construction

d. ensure resources remain for the next generation

Learning Objective: 17.2: How do applied anthropologists assist in climate change projects?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Applied Anthropology, Climate Change, and Sustainability

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. How can anthropologists contribute to the understanding of climate change?

a. Consult with traditional healers to educate them on climate change

b. Convince climate change skeptics that they are wrong

c. Identify cultural factors that impact climate change

d. Push through policies limiting the environmental impact of multinational corporations

Learning Objective: 17.2: How do applied anthropologists assist in climate change projects?

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Applied Anthropology, Climate Change, and Sustainability

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Attributing disease to natural factors such as genetic issues is a feature of ______.

a. the Western biomedical perspective

b. Chinese acupuncture

c. East African traditional medicine

d. therapeutic pluralism

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Medical Anthropology

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Cultures that do not ascribe to a Western view of medicine may attribute illness and disease to which of the following?

a. Genetics

b. Microbes

c. Supernatural beings

d. Environmental factors

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethnomedicine

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Why do many people in Thailand turn to traditional practitioners rather than doctors?

a. They cannot afford doctors

b. There is little access to Western medical knowledge

c. Doctors are only for high status people

d. They do not feel doctors have a complete understanding of their issues

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Ethnomedicine in Thailand

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. People in Thailand who rely on both Western and traditional methods of healing are practicing ______.

a. acupuncture

b. therapeutic pluralism

c. witchcraft

d. biomedical curing

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethnomedicine in Thailand

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The community may advise the sick person in East Africa to go to a doctor, a local healer, or a ______ depending on the circumstances.

a. witchfinder

b. priest

c. missionary

d. hospital

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethnomedicine in East Africa

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Chinese acupuncture practitioners heal by ______.

a. applying herbal remedies

b. killing microbes

c. dealing with witches who intentionally cause harm

d. controlling the flow of qi

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Chinese Acupuncture

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Medical anthropologists studying whether cultural factors impact the prevalence of disease work in which field?

a. Ethnomedicine

b. Epidemiology

c. Alternative medicine

d. Traditional healing

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cultural Patterns and Epidemiology

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Why have psychiatrists had to revise their definitions of mental illness?

a. The previous definitions only work within a Western cultural framework

b. People today exhibit more mental illness than in previous generations

c. Today only harmful behaviors are considered mental illnesses

d. Mental illnesses do not exist in other societies

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: What Is Abnormal?

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Latah is an example of a/an ______.

a. ethnogenic process

b. culture-specific disorder

c. traditional healing method

d. biomedical disease

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Culture-Specific Disorders

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. The windigo psychosis is a disorder specific to ______.

a. the Saami reindeer herders

b. East African traditional communities

c. certain indigenous Canadian groups

d. southeast Asia

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Culture-Specific Disorders

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. The study of culture-specific disorders examines the role of culture in the expression of ______.

a. disease

b. poor behavior

c. economic deprivation

d. mental illness

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Culture-Specific Disorders

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Applied archaeologists are often involved in which of the following?

a. Alternative medicine practices

b. Social impact studies

c. Museum duration

d. Cultural resource management

Learning Objective: 17.4: Discuss the field and activities of applied archaeologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Resource Management: Applied Archaeology

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Which of the following poses the biggest threat to archaeological sites?

a. Cultural identity

b. Construction projects

c. Museum studies

d. Ethnographic fieldwork

Learning Objective: 17.4: Discuss the field and activities of applied archaeologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Resource Management: Applied Archaeology

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Looters remove archaeological finds from ______, resulting in the loss of knowledge.

a. museums

b. antique dealers

c. cultural context

d. circulation

Learning Objective: 17.4: Discuss the field and activities of applied archaeologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Resource Management: Applied Archaeology

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Excavations can be planned to ______ artifacts from sites threatened by construction projects.

a. salvage

b. destroy

c. cover up

d. hide

Learning Objective: 17.4: Discuss the field and activities of applied archaeologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Preserving the Past

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Archaeologists working in CRM conduct ______ to locate archaeological sites of significance.

a. excavations

b. surveys

c. laboratory work

d. ethnographies

Learning Objective: 17.4: Discuss the field and activities of applied archaeologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Resource Management in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. An archaeological site underneath a proposed location for a new public school is protected by which of the following?

a. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

b. Antiquities Act

c. Abandoned Shipwreck act

d. National Historic Preservation Act

Learning Objective: 17.4: Discuss the field and activities of applied archaeologists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Cultural Resource Management in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. Artifacts located on privately owned land in the United States belong to the ______.

a. federal government

b. landowner

c. cultural group that produced the artifacts

d. archaeologist who excavates them

Learning Objective: 17.4: Discuss the field and activities of applied archaeologists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Cultural Resource Management in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Ethical relativists would make which of the following arguments?

a. Societies that practice infanticide are just as moral as societies that do not

b. Each societies practices must be understood in context

c. Humans have basic rights that must not be violated regardless of culture

d. Some cultural practices must be condemned

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Ethical Relativism

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. What is the best way to end harmful cultural practices, according to the text?

a. To swiftly implement laws and punish violations harshly

b. Study the practice in a holistic way and design policies accordingly

c. Show films to the locals that explain how harmful the practice is

d. Make sure to not impose Western ethical ideals onto non-Western societies

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Problem of Intervention

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. ______ caused many anthropologists to reconsider their stance on cultural relativism.

a. The World’s Fair

b. The election of Theodore Roosevelt

c. World War I

d. Japanese Internment

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Relativism Reconsidered

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. What is one cultural practice condemned by many anthropologists?

a. polygamy

b. traditional healing practices

c. shamanic beliefs

d. genocide

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethical Relativism

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. Anthropologists comfortable with criticizing the practices of state societies but not small-scale societies proposed a/an ______.

a. double standard

b. ethical relativistic approach

c. essentialist belief system

d. advocacy role

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethical Relativism

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. Relativism without regard for basic human rights benefits ______.

a. the most marginalized

b. those with hegemonic power

c. homogenization of ethnicity

d. Western society at the expense of non-Western cultures

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: A Resolution to the Problem of Relativism

Difficulty Level: Medium

35. The AAA works to promote ______.

a. the development of capitalist economic systems

b. ethical relativism

c. absolute relativism

d. cultural relativism and human rights

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Role of Applied Anthropology in Human Rights

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Mental illnesses are uniform across cultures.

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Medical Anthropology and Mental Illness

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. There is no harm done when members of the public pick up arrowheads they find on the ground.

Learning Objective: 17.4: Discuss the field and activities of applied archaeologists.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Cultural Resource Management in the United States

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Cultural relativism means that anthropologists should not work to end female genital mutilation.

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: A Resolution to the Problem of Relativism

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Globalization has resulted in increased in uniformly increased human rights among non-Western societies.

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Universal Human Rights

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The harsh law against the dowry in India is effective in stopping sex-selective abortions.

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Role of Applied Anthropology in Human Rights

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. How has neoliberalism impacted the foreign aid system?

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist in Planned Change

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Should applied anthropologists work in advocate and activism roles? Why or why not?

Learning Objective: 17.1: Describe the different roles of applied anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Roles of the Applied Anthropologist

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Discuss why people in non-Western countries with access to Western medical doctors may choose a path of therapeutic pluralism.

Learning Objective: 17.3: Describe some of the findings of medical anthropologists.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ethnomedicine in Thailand

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Discuss the significance of NAGPRA.

Learning Objective: 17.4: Discuss the field and activities of applied archaeologists.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Should anthropologists accept all cultural practices and beliefs, even if they cause harm to individuals? Include the difference between cultural relativism and ethical relativism in your discussion.

Learning Objective: 17.5: Discuss how applied anthropologists are engaged in human rights research.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Cultural Relativism and Human Rights

Difficulty Level: Hard