Exam 17: Applying Anthropology

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Biomedicine, which aims to link an illness to scientifically demonstrated agents that bear no personal malice toward their victims, is an example of naturalistic medicine.

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All of the following are proper roles for applied anthropologists EXCEPT

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Strictly speaking, medical anthropology is an applied field within anthropology.

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People are usually willing to change just enough to maintain, or slightly improve on, what they already have. For this reason, development projects are most likely to succeed when they avoid the fallacy of

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During World War II, the U.S. government recruited anthropologists to study Japanese and German cultures. This chapter uses this example to illustrate the dangers of the old anthropology.

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Which of the following is NOT a feature of urban life?

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Scientific medicine is not the same thing as Western medicine.

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Applied anthropology is

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Biomedicine, which aims to link an illness to scientifically demonstrated agents that bear no personal malice toward their victims, is an example of naturalistic medicine.

All of the following are proper roles for applied anthropologists EXCEPT

Strictly speaking, medical anthropology is an applied field within anthropology.

People are usually willing to change just enough to maintain, or slightly improve on, what they already have. For this reason, development projects are most likely to succeed when they avoid the fallacy of

During World War II, the U.S. government recruited anthropologists to study Japanese and German cultures. This chapter uses this example to illustrate the dangers of the old anthropology.

Which of the following is NOT a feature of urban life?

Scientific medicine is not the same thing as Western medicine.

Applied anthropology is

What Is Anthropology

Culture

Doing Anthropology

Evolution, Genetics, and Human Variation

The Primates

Early Hominins

The Genus Homo

The First Farmers

The First Cities and States

Language and Communication

Making a Living

Political Systems

Families, Kinship, and Marriage

Gender

Religion

Ethnicity and Race

The World System, Colonialism, and Inequality

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

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