Ethics & Methods in Cultural Anthropology
This approval is required from ethics committees before conducting research involving humans or animals.
What is IRB (Internal Review Board) approval?
This event involves a village chief publicly giving away stockpiled food and other goods.
What is a potlatch?
The worldwide intensification of interactions and increased movement of money, people, goods, and ideas within and across national borders.
What is globalization?
This is UCF's mascot.
Who is Knightro?
This planet is known as the Red Planet due to its reddish appearance.
What is Mars?
This type of logic involves moving from lots of possibilities to one or a few in scientific research.
What is deductive logic?
When a society changes from traditional to modern lifeways.
What is structural adjustment?
This term refers to oppressed and excluded groups in a society or colony, as described by Antonio Gramsci.
What is subaltern?
These are UCF's official colors.
What are black and gold?
This blood type is known as the universal donor.
What is O negative?
A key resource for cross-cultural comparison, containing ethnographic, biological, and archaeological data for nearly 400 societies.
What are the Human Relations Area Files?
This economic theory, promoted by Adam Smith in 1776, advocates for reducing government intervention in the market.
What is liberalism or laissez-faire economics?
These are the four types of power identified by Eric Wolf.
What are personal power, social power, tactical power, and structural power?
The Greek symbol of UCF.
What is the Pegasus?
This was the first state to join the United States, admitted to the Union on December 7, 1787.
What is Delaware?
Two challenges that are most common for new anthropologists in fieldwork.
Culture shock, language barrier, homesickness...
This concept refers to a customary way of living, integrating all aspects of life, often used in Indigenous studies.
What is a lifeway?
This documentary film examines the issues of globalization, privatization, and neocolonialism with a focus on water.
What is "Flow: For Love of Water"?
These are the names of the two UCF campuses besides the main campus.
What are the Rosen and Downtown Campus?
This gemstone is the birthstone for the month of August.
What is Peridot?
This balance is crucial in maintaining the anonymity of field subjects and the researcher's professional reputation.
What is the balance of power (emic & etic)?
This resulted in the Modernization Theory and overvaluing the US dollar and led to floating currencies in 1973.
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement?
This theorist's concept of 'scapes' describes the disjunctive and fluid nature of global cultural flows, encompassing ethnoscapes, technoscapes, mediascapes, financescapes, and ideoscapes.
Who is Arjun Appadurai?
The original name of UCF.
What is Florida Technological University?
This is the number of pounds in a ton.
What is 2,000 pounds?