Choose one best answer for six questions? Anthropology questions. Thank you! 1.
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Choose one best answer for six questions? Anthropology questions. Thank you!
1. Theoretical linguistics, in contrast with linguistic anthropology, is:
A. diverse, grammar based, and syntax related.
B. focused, specific, and intuitive.
C. comparative, hierarchical, and laboratory based.
2. When you are traveling in a country with a different monetary system and you decide how expensive something is by translating it into “real” money (the money in your own country) you are engaging in a sort of
A. Relativism
B. Filedwork
C. Globalization
D. Ethonocentrism
3. Food is an artifact like no other, in that
A, Food is consumed and literally becomes us.
B. Food traditions are only passed from mother to daughter.
C. Itleaves no trace in the archaeological record.
D. Bone residues of the animals we eat can be measured.
4. Humoral classifications traditionally provide guidance about how to use food as medicine. Traditional humoral classifications include
A. Melancholic
B. Phlegm
C. Red bile
D. All of the above
5. Paul Shankman tested the hypotheses of Lévi-Strauss, and called them into question, by studying
A. The culinary triangle
B. Semantic domains
C. Cannibalism or anthropophagy
D. None of the above
6. English is considered an "isolating" language. This means that
A. English has very few words that combine ideas.
B. English chooses one word for one idea and strictly resists change.
A. diverse, grammar based, and syntax related.
Explanation / Answer
1. The correct answer is Option B. Theoretical linguistics, in contrast with linguistic anthropology, is focused, specific and intuitive.
2. The correct answer is Option A. This is an example of relativism.
3. The correct answer is Option A. Food is an artifact like no other, in that it is consumed and eventually becomes us.
4. The correct answer is Option B. Traditional humoral classifications include phlegm.
Please post the other questions separately as we are supposed to answer just one question or four sub parts of a question.