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What is the main focus of Anthropology according to the text?

  • Political science
  • Human rights advocacy
  • Study of humankind in all times and places (correct)
  • Economic development

What is one of the goals of Anthropology mentioned in the text?

  • To eliminate commonalities among different cultures
  • To understand and preserve diversity (correct)
  • To promote cultural uniformity
  • To enforce cultural segregation

Why does Anthropology encourage individuals to look at their own culture more objectively?

  • To enforce cultural superiority
  • To eliminate the study of cultural variations
  • To criticize other cultures
  • To make the familiar strange and the strange familiar (correct)

Which field of Anthropology refers to the study of living people and their cultures?

<p>Cultural Anthropology (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of knowledge does Anthropology aim to produce about humankind and human behavior?

<p>New knowledge and new theories (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is it important for Anthropologists to discover what all people have in common?

<p>To understand more about human nature (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main focus of cultural anthropology?

<p>Art and religion (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which field of anthropology involves the study of communication?

<p>Linguistic anthropology (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does archaeology primarily study?

<p>Artifacts from past human cultures (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of biological anthropology?

<p>Distribution of hereditary variations (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is regarded as the 'Father of Sociology'?

<p>August Comte (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does sociology primarily focus on studying?

<p>Groups and societies (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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