Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each question: is it framed the anthropological way, or the way a neighboring discipline would ask it?
Groups: Anthropological framing · Neighboring discipline
- How does grief work across cultures, from Bali to Brooklyn?
- What did Napoleon write to Josephine in 1796?
- How does unemployment correlate with voting in modern Spain?
- Do all known societies have marriage rules?
Hints
- The signature is the comparative, whole-species frame.
- A question answerable from one archive belongs to another discipline.
Show the answer
Anthropological framing: Do all known societies have marriage rules?, How does grief work across cultures, from Bali to Brooklyn?
Neighboring discipline: What did Napoleon write to Josephine in 1796?, How does unemployment correlate with voting in modern Spain?
Why
The anthropological signature is the comparative, whole-species frame. Single-archive questions belong to history; single-modern-society statistics to sociology.
Practise What is Anthropology?
The app has 5 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. History I is free to start.
More questions on What is Anthropology?
- Match each field to the evidence it treats as its home ground.
- A trading floor and a Melanesian gift exchange are both legitimate anthropological subjects. What claim about…
- Anthropologists study stock exchanges, hospitals and corporate offices with the same methods they bring to a…
- Order the stages in the making of the discipline.
- One researcher records a dying language’s last speakers; another sifts a trash layer for pottery. Why is this…
- Which of these are classically anthropological research questions?