A) all such single communities have already been studied, so anthropologists have very limited project choices.
B) there has been a shift within the discipline toward a recognition of ongoing and inescapable flows of people, technology, images, and information.
C) the American Anthropological Association still requires its members to strive toward research focused on one single community.
D) this is no longer true, nor has it ever really been true, a fact that renders classic ethnographies historical curiosities and not serious academic works.
E) there has been a shift within the discipline against the concept of culture and toward the individual as the only true, reliable unit of analysis.
G) C) and D)
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A) Features of culture such as distinctive smells, noises people make, how they cover their mouths when they eat, and how they gaze at each other are so fundamental that natives take them for granted but are there for the ethnographer to describe and make sense of.
B) Everyday cultural patterns are full of senseless cultural "noise," and it is the anthropologist's job to get at the truly valuable behaviors that distinguish one culture from another.
C) Everyday cultural patterns of native life can best be studied by asking key informants to explain them.
D) Features of everyday culture are, at first, imponderable, but as the ethnographer builds rapport, their logic and functional value in society become clear.
E) Everyday cultural patterns are important but so numerous that their detailed description should not be included in the main body of an ethnographic study.
G) B) and E)
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A) participant observation
B) interviews
C) genealogical method
D) key consultants
E) life histories
G) A) and E)
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A) Social fact, just like any other fact, can be studied objectively.
B) Culture is more of an idea in people's heads than a social reality.
C) Culture is primarily a psychological and individual phenomenon.
D) Social phenomena studied by anthropologists require study methods that are different from those used by other social scientists.
E) Psychologists study individuals, but anthropologists study individuals as representative of something more: a collective phenomenon that is more than the sum of its parts.
G) B) and D)
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A) representative sample
B) etic informant
C) key cultural consultant
D) biased informant
E) life-history approach specialist
G) C) and D)
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A) Anthropologists in war zones have an ethical dilemma where their responsibilities to their military units may conflict with their obligations to the local people they study.
B) It is difficult to give informed consent in an active war zone without feeling coerced, thereby compromising "voluntary informed consent" in the AAA Code of Ethics.
C) Anthropologists may not be able to identify themselves as anthropologists, distinct from military personnel.
D) Anthropologists, by the nature of their discipline, are not permitted to interact with any military personnel.
E) The Human Terrain System conflicts with the ethical responsibility of anthropologists to disclose who they are.
G) A) and B)
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A) that is necessary in conducting any valuable research in the social sciences, not just anthropology.
B) that, if done properly, ensures the ethnographer's ability to conduct detached, unbiased research.
C) achieved in large part by engaging in participant observation.
D) and if that fails, the next option is to pay people so they will talk about their culture.
E) as well as on payment, based on local standards, for people's time spent with the researcher.
G) B) and C)
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A) the structural causes of colonialism.
B) how anthropological theory can aid NGOs in writing an alternate history of oppressed peoples.
C) the role of colonial bureaucracies in shaping international culture.
D) local agency, the transformative actions of individuals and groups within colonized societies.
E) the state's role in denying some of its citizens a place in history.
G) A) and E)
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A) a diachronic phenomenon.
B) functional puzzles.
C) a system of meaning.
D) underlying sets of rules that must be deciphered through the analysis of cultural patterns.
E) distinct from human psychology.
G) None of the above
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A) put human agency at the center of cultural analysis.
B) focus on the study of cultures as closed systems, untouched by regional and even global dynamics.
C) ignore the role of history in shaping culture as we know it.
D) consider the relevance of world-system theory and political economy to anthropology.
E) are just as deterministic as the old evolutionary models, but for different reasons.
G) A) and B)
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B) questionnaires
C) interviews
D) variables
E) random samples
G) A) and D)
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