A) any contemporary Native American tribe is considered to be culturally affiliated with all Native American remains or artifacts.
B) museums must destroy any remains they do not repatriate to living Native Americans.
C) DNA analysis of all human skeletal remains is prohibited.
D) museums must return all materials to Native American tribes and are not allowed to keep any Native American skeletal remains.
E) museums are required to return remains and artifacts to any tribe that requests them and can prove a "cultural affiliation" to the remains.
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A) is the result of a UN resolution designed to ensure that human rights are respected in the field of U.S. anthropology.
B) is applicable only to research being conducted in the United States.
C) is too broad for most anthropologists to find it useful.
D) applies differently to the different types of anthropology.
E) is designed to ensure that all anthropologists are aware of their obligations to the field of anthropology, the host communities that allow them to conduct their research, and society in general.
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A) agency paralysis
B) synchrony
C) configurationalism
D) culture shock
E) diachrony
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A) uses genetic analysis of a DNA sequence to assess evolutionary links.
B) is the specialty of the most important member of an archaeological excavation project.
C) studies early hominins through fossil remains.
D) uses microscopic phytolithic analysis to study molecular evolution.
E) uses archaeological survey techniques to gather its data.
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A) buying a shroud for a village ancestor
B) helping out at harvest time
C) administering interviews according to an interview schedule over the phone
D) engaging in informal chit-chat
E) dancing at a ceremony
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A) necrology
B) taphonomy
C) degradation
D) osteology
E) autopsy
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A) people's agreement to take part in research after they have been fully informed about its purpose, nature, funding, procedures, and potential impact on them.
B) U.S. anthropologists' signed commitment to the American Anthropological Association that they will abide by the organization's laws and regulations.
C) a coercive agreement between anthropologists and study participants that characterized much of the dubious and unethical research practices of the past.
D) a signed contract between anthropologists and their academic institutions regarding the potential monetary value of the data they will collect in the field and how they will safeguard that data.
E) a host country's leaders' agreement that the specified research is to be carried out.
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A) entering the community and getting to know its people.
B) gathering large quantities of data on a limited budget.
C) defining the local culture in such a way as to highlight what makes the particular culture so unlike any other.
D) collaborating with the community to construct a cohesive image of local culture.
E) providing detailed descriptions of "the imponderabilia of native life and of typical behavior."
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A) They often work in another country (in the case of U.S. paleoanthropologists) and are required by the American Anthropological Association's Code of Ethics to establish truly collaborative relations with colleagues in that country.
B) They often work in a team with archaeologists.
C) They study human evolution through the fossil record.
D) They do not have to worry about ethical and legal concerns, because they are dealing with the remains of dead humans.
E) They try to infer the relation between the physical and cultural features of the remains they are examining.
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A) biased informant
B) etic informant
C) representative sample
D) life-history approach specialist
E) key cultural consultant
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A) Everyday cultural patterns are full of senseless cultural "noise," and it is the anthropologist's job to get at the truly valuable behaviors that distinguish one culture from another.
B) Everyday cultural patterns are important but so numerous that their detailed description should not be included in the main body of an ethnographic study.
C) Everyday cultural patterns of native life can best be studied by asking key informants to explain them.
D) Features of culture such as distinctive smells, noises people make, how they cover their mouths when they eat, and how they gaze at each other are so fundamental that natives take them for granted but are there for the ethnographer to describe and make sense of.
E) Features of everyday culture are, at first, imponderable, but as the ethnographer builds rapport, their logic and functional value in society become clear.
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A) radiometric
B) radioactive
C) relative
D) chronologic
E) absolute
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