The task of the cultural anthropologist is to
a. describe the various parts of the culture he or she studies.
b. study aspects of a culture in isolation from the rest of the cultural system.
c. show how parts of a culture are independent from one another.
d. determine if one culture is more moral than another.
e. work to help develop the most adaptive type of culture to improve human potential.
Question 2
The integration of a culture means that
a. all of the cultural parts are tightly connected to all other cultural parts.
b. cultural parts are somewhat interconnected with one another.
c. members of two different subcultures attend school together and thereby learn to adapt to culture.
d. a culture is exactly like the body of a living organism.
e. it is impossible to distinguish any area of culture from another area.
Your Culture and Your Point of View
Triumphal Entry, page from a manuscript of Firdawsi's Shahnamah, Persian, Safavid culture.
Basin, Majiayao culture, Majiayao phase, Gansu province, China.
Obtaining a Throat Culture
Obtaining a Sputum Specimen for Culture
Other countries are “Americanizing” their local culture’s diet