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Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. A portmanteau term sociocultural anthropology is commonly used today. Linguistic anthropology studies how language influences social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans. Archaeological anthropology, often termed as... Show more
Anthropology Practice Test Questions
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1. Sociology should relinquish every attempt at discovering origins and forms of evolution
2. Kardiner in his study of relationship between culture and personality is
3. Animism is the earliest concept towards the religion forwarded by .................-----
4. Male bias or tendency to underestimate or ignore female perspective is
5. Economic growth will keep pace with population growth only if there is
6. Process by which cultural traits spread from one group or society to another is called
7. Who defined l’anthropologie as follows: Anthropology, that is to say the science that treats of man, is divided ordinarily and with reason into Anatomy, which considers the body and the parts, and Psychology, which speaks of the soul.
8. A verities of language traditionally, term was applied to regional dialects but applied to verities of particular social groups are called
9. Which of following factors would come under term of diversity??
10. Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, are students of
11. Totem symbolized the
12. In the case of skeletalized human remains, which of the following features is not of potential use in making a personal identification?
13. Which one is a basic institution for socialization of children?
14. The field of anthropology that studies cross-cultural knowledge and use of plants is called
15. Anthropology is study of
16. Who said “Ideas about race, culture and people-hood or ethnicity have long served to orient anthropology’s inquiries ….”
17. Humans to transform themselves from plant and dead animal in Africa to a truly global species behavior patterns and knowledge by people as members of a society
18. Mana is a ................. term meaning Power
19. Which of these is NOT part of the anthropological perspective?
20. Cultural anthropology in particular has emphasized
21. One of unique aspects of cultural anthropology is
22. Social structure of a society is network of
23. .................---is a discipline, which serves the infinite curiosity about human beings.
24. A women who shares a husband with one or more other women in a polygynous union are called
25. Who presented that capitalism is the product of one sect of Christianity?