Exam 3: Applied Anthropology

The conclusion of various applied anthropology projects is that ____________ is one of the most significant factors in the success of any type of technological change for local inhabitants.

Through participant observation,anthropologists are best able to understand the daily lives of the people they study.

Penny Van Esterik found that the nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands had caused significant health damage to the local population.

Which of the following statements about applied anthropology is true?

Richard Dembo's study of crack cocaine in west central Florida found that:

Applied anthropologists played an important policy role in WWII.

Using the data that you learned from the various applied projects highlighted in Chapter 3,what kinds of conclusion can you make about applied anthropological work? Try to list at least 5 major conclusions.

There are at least ten specialized roles that an anthropologist can take on an applied project.Choose two of these roles and compare and contrast them.How would the anthropologist's daily work and involvement change as a result of occupying one of these roles rather than the other?

A student who has completed a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology is best prepared to:

Applied anthropology is more _______ than theoretical anthropology.

Applied anthropologist Li Jian found various kinds of barriers for rural Chinese to convert to household-based biogas production.Which of the following is not one of the types of barriers?

Name the five types of cultural anthropology proposed by Alexander Ervin as a continuum from pure to applied anthropology.Make sure that they are named in order.

In one of the cross-cultural miscues in your textbook,the American exchange student to Argentina should not have given her host family a set of steak knives because:

Alexander Ervin suggests that there are five types of cultural anthropology along a continuum.Which of the following is not one of the types of cultural anthropology that he proposed?

How would you best describe the major consequence of Cathy Small's research with students in her own university?

Which of the following best describes the approach of participant observation?

A cultural broker serves as an active supporter of a particular group of people.

How is applied anthropology today different from that of the 1950s and 1960s?

The line between pure and applied anthropology is not clear because both groups receive similar training and use similar methods.

The ethnographic study of adolescent drug dealers is best considered a part of which specialty of cultural anthropology?