Test Bank for Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft, 3rd Edition Rebecca Stein, Philip L Stein/ Chapter 1: The Anthropological Study of Religion
TEST QUESTIONS
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following would not be an appropriate task for an anthropologist?
a. translating a religious text in the Navaho language
b. excavating the ruins of a Mayan temple
c. filming an American religious ceremony
d. studying the chimpanzees of the Gombe National Park
e. all of the above would be appropriate tasks
Answer: e page 2
2. A study of a people's religious beliefs and rituals would be a part of the study of:
a. cultural anthropology b. linguistics
c. archaeology d. physical anthropology
Answer: a page 2
3. Anthropologists study societies as systematic sums of their parts, a concept known as:
a. relativism b. ethnology
c. holism d. postmodernism
Answer: c pages 1-2
4. A method of studying communities that is unique to anthropology is:
a. questionnaires b. participant observation
c. psychological tests d. recording of oral literature and songs
Answer: b page 2
5. An ethnography is a:
a. comparative study of the social systems of many societies
b. study of the physical characteristics of a human population
c. analysis of a nonhuman primate species
d. descriptive study of a society or culture
Answer: d page 3
6. An example of an ethnography is:
a. Goodall's study of chimpanzee behavior
b. Herskovits's study of economic anthropology
c. Johanson's study of the fossil hominids from Hadar
d. Malinowski's study of the Trobriand Islanders
Answer: d page 3
7. An anthropologist travels to the Fore of New Guinea and produces an ethnography. This
ethnography is a(n):
a. comparison of Fore society with other New Guinea societies
b. a description of Fore society and culture
c. analysis of the Fore language