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Cultural Anthropology Final Part 2

Question 1 of 37

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Life Chances

Select one of the following:

  • The reputation, influence, and deference bestowed on certain people because of their membership in certain groups.

  • An individual's opportunities to improve quality of life and achieve life goals.

  • The movement of one's class position, upward or downward, in stratified societies.

  • The phenomenon whereby social and class relations of prestige or lack of prestige are passed from one generation to the next.

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Question 2 of 37

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Social Mobility

Select one of the following:

  • The phenomenon whereby social and class relations of prestige or lack of prestige are passed from one generation to the next.

  • Bourdieu's term to describe the self-perceptions and beliefs that develop as part of one's social identity and shape one's conceptions of the world and where one fits in it.

  • The movement of one's class position, upward or downward, in stratified societies.

  • Humans who subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering foods to eat.

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Question 3 of 37

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Social reproduction

Select one of the following:

  • The phenomenon whereby social and class relations of prestige or lack of prestige are passed from one generation to the next.

  • Bourdieu's term to describe the self-perceptions and beliefs that develop as part of one's social identity and shape one's conceptions of the world and where one fits in it.

  • A cultural adaptation to the environment that enables a group of humans to use the available resources to satisfy their needs and to survive.

  • Humans who subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering foods to eat.

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Question 4 of 37

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Habitus

Select one of the following:

  • Bourdieu's term to describe the self-perceptions and beliefs that develop as part of one's social identity and shape one's conceptions of the world and where one fits in it.

  • A cultural adaptation to the environment that enables a group of humans to use the available resources to satisfy their needs and to survive.

  • Humans who subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering foods to eat.

  • A strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals.

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Question 5 of 37

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Economy

Select one of the following:

  • Humans who subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering foods to eat.

  • A strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals.

  • The cultivation of plants for subsistence through non-intensive use of land and labor.

  • A cultural adaptation to the environment that enables a group of humans to use the available resources to satisfy their needs and to survive.

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Question 6 of 37

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Food Foragers

Select one of the following:

  • Humans who subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering foods to eat.

  • A strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals.

  • The cultivation of plants for subsistence through non-intensive use of land and labor.

  • An intensive farming strategy for food production involving permanently cultivated land.

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Question 7 of 37

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Pastoralism

Select one of the following:

  • A strategy for food production involving the domestication of animals.

  • The cultivation of plants for subsistence through non-intensive use of land and labor.

  • An intensive farming strategy for food production involving permanently cultivated land.

  • The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties.

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Question 8 of 37

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Horticulture

Select one of the following:

  • The cultivation of plants for subsistence through non-intensive use of land and labor.

  • An intensive farming strategy for food production involving permanently cultivated land.

  • The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties.

  • A form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern.

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Question 9 of 37

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Agriculture

Select one of the following:

  • An intensive farming strategy for food production involving permanently cultivated land.

  • The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties.

  • A form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern.

  • A critique of modernization theory that argued that, despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations of the modern world economic system had not changed.

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Question 10 of 37

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Reciprocity

Select one of the following:

  • The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties.

  • A form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern.

  • A critique of modernization theory that argued that, despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations of the modern world economic system had not changed.

  • The term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system.

Explanation

Question 11 of 37

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Redistribution

Select one of the following:

  • A form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern.

  • A critique of modernization theory that argued that, despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations of the modern world economic system had not changed.

  • The term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system.

  • Industrialized former colonial states that dominate the world economic system.

Explanation

Question 12 of 37

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Dependency Theory

Select one of the following:

  • A critique of modernization theory that argued that, despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations of the modern world economic system had not changed.

  • The term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system.

  • Industrialized former colonial states that dominate the world economic system.

  • The least developed and least powerful nations; often exploited by the core countries as sources of raw materials, cheap labor, and markets.

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Question 13 of 37

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Underdevelopment

Select one of the following:

  • The term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system.

  • Industrialized former colonial states that dominate the world economic system.

  • The least developed and least powerful nations; often exploited by the core countries as sources of raw materials, cheap labor, and markets.

  • The dominant model of industrial production for much of the twentieth century, based on a social compact between labor, capital, and government.

Explanation

Question 14 of 37

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Core Countries

Select one of the following:

  • Industrialized former colonial states that dominate the world economic system.

  • The least developed and least powerful nations; often exploited by the core countries as sources of raw materials, cheap labor, and markets.

  • The dominant model of industrial production for much of the twentieth century, based on a social compact between labor, capital, and government.

  • The increasingly flexible strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative communication and transportation technologies.

Explanation

Question 15 of 37

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Periphery countries

Select one of the following:

  • The least developed and least powerful nations; often exploited by the core countries as sources of raw materials, cheap labor, and markets.

  • The dominant model of industrial production for much of the twentieth century, based on a social compact between labor, capital, and government.

  • The increasingly flexible strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative communication and transportation technologies.

  • An economic and political worldview that sees the free market as the main mechanism for ensuring economic growth, with a severely restricted role for government.

Explanation

Question 16 of 37

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Fordism

Select one of the following:

  • The increasingly flexible strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative communication and transportation technologies.

  • The dominant model of industrial production for much of the twentieth century, based on a social compact between labor, capital, and government.

  • An economic and political worldview that sees the free market as the main mechanism for ensuring economic growth, with a severely restricted role for government.

  • The forces that spur migration from the country of origin and draw immigrants to a particular new destination country.

Explanation

Question 17 of 37

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Flexible Accumulation

Select one of the following:

  • An economic and political worldview that sees the free market as the main mechanism for ensuring economic growth, with a severely restricted role for government.

  • The increasingly flexible strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative communication and transportation technologies.

  • The forces that spur migration from the country of origin and draw immigrants to a particular new destination country.

  • migration
    The movement of people within their own national borders.

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Question 18 of 37

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Neoliberalism

Select one of the following:

  • An economic and political worldview that sees the free market as the main mechanism for ensuring economic growth, with a severely restricted role for government.

  • The forces that spur migration from the country of origin and draw immigrants to a particular new destination country.

  • The movement of people within their own national borders.

  • A person who moves in search of a low-skill and low-wage job, often filling an economic niche that native-born workers will not fill.

Explanation

Question 19 of 37

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Pushes and Pulls

Select one of the following:

  • The forces that spur migration from the country of origin and draw immigrants to a particular new destination country.

  • The movement of people within their own national borders.

  • A person who moves in search of a low-skill and low-wage job, often filling an economic niche that native-born workers will not fill.

  • A small kinship-based group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over a particular territory.

Explanation

Question 20 of 37

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Internal migration

Select one of the following:

  • The movement of people within their own national borders.

  • A person who moves in search of a low-skill and low-wage job, often filling an economic niche that native-born workers will not fill.

  • The forces that spur migration from the country of origin and draw immigrants to a particular new destination country.

  • A small kinship-based group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over a particular territory.

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Question 21 of 37

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Labor migrant

Select one of the following:

  • A person who moves in search of a low-skill and low-wage job, often filling an economic niche that native-born workers will not fill.

  • A small kinship-based group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over a particular territory.

  • Originally viewed as a culturally distinct, multiband population that imagined itself as one people descended from a common ancestor; currently used to describe an indigenous group with its own set of loyalties and leaders living to some extent outside the control of a centralized authoritative state.

  • An autonomous political unit composed of a number of villages or communities under the permanent control of a paramount chief.

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Question 22 of 37

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Band

Select one of the following:

  • A small kinship-based group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over a particular territory.

  • Originally viewed as a culturally distinct, multiband population that imagined itself as one people descended from a common ancestor; currently used to describe an indigenous group with its own set of loyalties and leaders living to some extent outside the control of a centralized authoritative state.

  • An autonomous political unit composed of a number of villages or communities under the permanent control of a paramount chief.

  • An autonomous regional structure of political, economic, and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain order and defend its territory.

Explanation

Question 23 of 37

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Hegemony

Select one of the following:

  • The ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without the use or threat of force.

  • The potential power of individuals and groups to contest cultural norms, values, symbols, mental maps of reality, institutions, and structures of power.

  • A set of beliefs based on a unique vision of how the world ought to be, often revealed insights into a supernatural power and lived out in community.

  • An act or series of acts regularly repeated over years or generations that embody the beliefs of a group of people and create a sense of continuity and belonging.

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Question 24 of 37

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Agency

Select one of the following:

  • The potential power of individuals and groups to contest cultural norms, values, symbols, mental maps of reality, institutions, and structures of power.

  • A set of beliefs based on a unique vision of how the world ought to be, often revealed insights into a supernatural power and lived out in community.

  • Anything that is considered holy.

  • An act or series of acts regularly repeated over years or generations that embody the beliefs of a group of people and create a sense of continuity and belonging.

Explanation

Question 25 of 37

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Rite of Passage

Select one of the following:

  • A category of ritual that enacts a change of status from one life stage to another, either for an individual or a group.

  • A part-time religious practitioner with special abilities to connect individuals with supernatural powers or beings.

  • The use of spells, incantations, words, and actions in an attempt to compel supernatural forces to act in certain ways, whether for good or evil.

  • A ritual performance that achieves efficacy by imitating the desired magical result.

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Question 26 of 37

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Shaman

Select one of the following:

  • A part-time religious practitioner with special abilities to connect individuals with supernatural powers or beings.

  • The use of spells, incantations, words, and actions in an attempt to compel supernatural forces to act in certain ways, whether for good or evil.

  • A ritual performance that achieves efficacy by imitating the desired magical result.

  • Ritual words or performances that achieve efficacy as certain materials that come into contact with one person carry a magical connection that allows power to be transferred from one person to another.

Explanation

Question 27 of 37

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Magic

Select one of the following:

  • The use of spells, incantations, words, and actions in an attempt to compel supernatural forces to act in certain ways, whether for good or evil.

  • A ritual performance that achieves efficacy by imitating the desired magical result.

  • Ritual words or performances that achieve efficacy as certain materials that come into contact with one person carry a magical connection that allows power to be transferred from one person to another.

  • The absence of disease and infirmity, as well as the presence of physical, mental, and social well-being.

Explanation

Question 28 of 37

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Imitative Magic

Select one of the following:

  • A ritual performance that achieves efficacy by imitating the desired magical result.

  • Ritual words or performances that achieve efficacy as certain materials that come into contact with one person carry a magical connection that allows power to be transferred from one person to another.

  • The absence of disease and infirmity, as well as the presence of physical, mental, and social well-being.

  • A discrete natural entity that can be clinically identified and treated by a health professional.

Explanation

Question 29 of 37

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Contagious magic

Select one of the following:

  • Ritual words or performances that achieve efficacy as certain materials that come into contact with one person carry a magical connection that allows power to be transferred from one person to another.

  • The absence of disease and infirmity, as well as the presence of physical, mental, and social well-being.

  • A discrete natural entity that can be clinically identified and treated by a health professional.

  • Local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values.

Explanation

Question 30 of 37

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Health

Select one of the following:

  • The absence of disease and infirmity, as well as the presence of physical, mental, and social well-being.

  • A discrete natural entity that can be clinically identified and treated by a health professional.

  • Local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values.

  • A practice, often associated with Western medicine, that seeks to apply the principles of biology and the natural sciences to the practice of diagnosing disease and promoting healing.

Explanation

Question 31 of 37

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Disease

Select one of the following:

  • A discrete natural entity that can be clinically identified and treated by a health professional.

  • Local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values.

  • A practice, often associated with Western medicine, that seeks to apply the principles of biology and the natural sciences to the practice of diagnosing disease and promoting healing.

  • The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties.

Explanation

Question 32 of 37

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Ethnomedicine

Select one of the following:

  • Local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values.

  • A practice, often associated with Western medicine, that seeks to apply the principles of biology and the natural sciences to the practice of diagnosing disease and promoting healing.

  • The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties.

  • A form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern.

Explanation

Question 33 of 37

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Biomedicine

Select one of the following:

  • A practice, often associated with Western medicine, that seeks to apply the principles of biology and the natural sciences to the practice of diagnosing disease and promoting healing.

  • The exchange of resources, goods, and services among people of relatively equal status; meant to create and reinforce social ties.

  • A form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern.

  • Local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values.

Explanation

Question 34 of 37

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Polygyny

Select one of the following:

  • Marriage between one man and two or more women.

  • Marxist term for the capitalist class that owns the means of production.

  • Post WWII economic theories that predicted that with the end of colonialism, less-developed countries would follow the same trajectory towards modernization as the industrialized countries.

  • The individual patient's experience of sickness.

Explanation

Question 35 of 37

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Bourgeoisie

Select one of the following:

  • Marxist term for the capitalist class that owns the means of production.

  • Post WWII economic theories that predicted that with the end of colonialism, less-developed countries would follow the same trajectory towards modernization as the industrialized countries.

  • The individual patient's experience of sickness.

  • Marriage between one man and two or more women.

Explanation

Question 36 of 37

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Modernization Theories

Select one of the following:

  • Post WWII economic theories that predicted that with the end of colonialism, less-developed countries would follow the same trajectory towards modernization as the industrialized countries.

  • The individual patient's experience of sickness.

  • Marriage between one man and two or more women.

  • Marxist term for the capitalist class that owns the means of production.

Explanation

Question 37 of 37

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Illness

Select one of the following:

  • The individual patient's experience of sickness.

  • Post WWII economic theories that predicted that with the end of colonialism, less-developed countries would follow the same trajectory towards modernization as the industrialized countries.

  • Marxist term for the capitalist class that owns the means of production.

  • Marriage between one man and two or more women.

Explanation