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The Ultimate ISA Anthropology Quiz
Test your knowledge of anthropology in this engaging quiz designed to challenge your understanding of key concepts and theories within the field. Each question will take you on a journey through cultural perspectives, research methods, and critical theories.
Whether you are a student, teacher, or simply an enthusiast, this quiz is suitable for anyone interested in learning more about anthropology!
- 16 carefully crafted questions
- Multiple choice and open-ended formats
- Fun and interactive experience
Your life is in danger! You must collect enough correct answers to pass the test and enjoy freedom again! Are you ready?
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A masked man asks you to prove that you're an upcoming anthropologist. What are the four subfields of anthropology?
Cultural, archaeology, linguistic, and civilised anthropology
Biological, archaeology, linguistic, and cultural anthropology
Sociological, psychological, language, and cultural anthropology
None of the above
Well done. It's dark where you are, but you have been given a locked box with a flashlight inside. Answer correctly to open the box: To study all aspects of a culture in order to understand the whole culture is...?
Functionalism
Structural functionalism
Holism
Worldview
You turn on the flashlight and see a door with an inscription: "Are you judgemental?" What is the perspective that each culture must be understood in terms of the values and ideas of that culture and should not be judged by the standards of another?
Culture
Ethnocentrism
Positionality
Cultural relativism
Good on you, open-minded person. But just to make sure you can pass: The belief that one ethnic or cultural back group is centrally important, and all others are measured in relation to one's own is...?
Racism
Egocentrism
Ethnocentrism
Orientalism
The door opens. You enter a ballroom with a mirror. What is it trying to remind you?
Positionality
Reflexivity
Holism
All of the above
Look at you! You find two corridors in the ballroom: Process when a person learns the requirements of culture by which he or she is surrounded, and acquires values and behaviours that are appropriate or necessary of that culture...
Right corridor: Enculturation
Left corridor: Indoctrination
Congratulations, if you went left, you would have been knocked out. Now. A strange furry creature is staring at you - it wants to play. But what are the characteristics of play?
Somehow pleasurable
Consciously adapted by players
Related to what is non-play
Involves drinking
All of the above
You have been walking and thinking for a little while. You're hungry. To get a snack: When one country is involved in expanding the borders in order to project its power through direct governance or through indirect control mechanisms, it is...
Colonialism
Hegemony
Imperialism
Globalisation
Then, surely, you must know what the following then is: when one country physically exerts its domination, either through a combination of war and diplomacy, over another country with a view to exploiting its resources
Colonialism
Orientalism
Great! Have a snack, you deserve it. While you're at it though, what are the Althusser's two types of State Apparatus?
Ideological & Repressive
Idealistic & Political
Hegemonic & Idealistic
None of the above
You are about to exit the kitchen when a person meets you at the door and asks you to explain the following statement: "the biological (etc. chromosomes) and the performative". What is it?
Sex
Gender
Sex category
All of the above
Great. You are led out of the building and into a car. To drive home safely, identify the following concept: "the process of observing and collecting data about people, cultures, and natural environments"
Ethnography
Fieldwork
Participant observation
Qualitative study
Wow. The driver starts the engine and starts complaining about ideology... What is the difference between ideology and worldview?
Dominance/power
Political/personal
None of the above
You did great! To enter your house, what is important to remember about your conduct as an anthropologist?
Do everything you can to gather data
Code of ethics
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