Cultural Anthropology
Personal bias towards one's own culture, and against others is called...
Ethnocentrism!
The study of the sound of language
Phonology
What is the smallest known primate in the world
Mouse lemur
What law claims that the oldest rock layer is at the bottom of the strata?
Law of Superposition
The archaeologist fom the 1981 film who must beat a group of Nazis for a religious relic
Indiana Jones
The writings of a cultural anthropologist who has lived within a culture on the cultural practices of that culture is...
An ethnography
The study of the structure of words
Morphology
What is the only known primate who does not have a divergent hallux?
Humans!
True or False: Folsom was a fluted point culture
True
An archaeologist in the game franchise Tomb Raider
Lara Croft
The approach in anthropology that emphasizes a shared identity and common heritage of a group
Ethnicity
What is the term that describes language changes and adaptations over time with culture
Linguistic evolution
The common name "Ardi" refers to what hominin ancestor?
Ardipithecus ramidus
What were the two rivers that Mesopotamia depended on? For an extra 200 points (100 for each river), name which was to the north and which was to the south
Euphrates (in the south); Tigris (in the north)
Name of the hit TV show about an anthropologist who solves crimes with the FBI. Extra 100 points for what her job is called
Bones; Forensic anthropologist
The idea that cultural traits spread from one society to another
Cultural diffusion
Hypothesizes that language builds our perception and relationship to the world around us
(Weak version) of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Who is considered the father of modern evolutionary theory in America?
Washburn
What are the names of the two major archaeological sites in the Indus Valley
Mohenjo Daro and Harappa
Louise Banks, a linguist who learns to communicate with aliens is from what movie?
Arrival
The idea that we should understand a culture based on its own values rather than judging it by our culture's standards
Cultural relativism
What are Jakobson's six functions of language?
1. Expressive
2. Connative
3. Reflexive
4. Metalinguistic
5. Phatic
6. Poetic
What is the current epoch we are in, and what is the next proposed epoch called?
Holocene; Anthropocene
The age of the oldest known cave paintings/art, located in France at Chauvet-Pont d'Arc
32,000 years old
This famous author studied anthropology at the University of Chicago before his writing career took off
Kurt Vonnegut