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Pregunta 1
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Learning about another culture is often greatest
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Once the anthropologist has been accepted as a member of the group
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Following a rupture of communication between anthropologist and informant
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ONce the anthropologist has learned to avoid culture shock
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Cultural Anthropological fieldwork is
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Not always done in a Non-western society
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A collaborative effort on the part of both anthropologist & Informant
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Responsible for the majority of anthropological knowledge
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All of the above
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Eric Luke Lassiter urges that ethnographers go beyond the dialectic of fieldwork to do what?
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Produce collaborative written ethnographic texts in which informants become "co-intellectuals" alongside the trained ethnographer
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Move in with their informants and become one of them
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Abandon ethnographic writing for activism
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The ethnographic research method that relies primarily on face-to-face contact with people as they go about their daily lives is called
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Interviewing
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Scientific Observation
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Participant Observation
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The production of objective knowledge about reality that is absolute and true for all times and places is a goal of -
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Anthropology
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Positivism
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Fieldwork
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The people who become a cultural anthropoligst's key informants tend to be-
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People who are rather marginal in the society
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Outcasts
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The equivalent of college professors in their own society
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According to the test, anthropological knowledge is
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Subjective
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Intersubjective
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Objective
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The dialectic of fieldwork refers to the
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Personal and financial connection between the anthropologists and the informants
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Mutual construction of cross-cultural knowledge about the informant's culture by anthropologist and informant together
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Gradual discovery of the truth about a society through the anthropologist's careful research
Pregunta 9
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Which of the following is involved in deciding where an anthropologist will do his or her fieldwork?
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Intellectual debates in anthropology
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Whether visas and research clearances are available in a specific country
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The interests of funding agencies
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All of the above
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The jolt that often accompanies an encounter with cultural practices that are unexpected and unfamiliar is called
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Participant-observation
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Dialogue
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Culture Shock
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An extended period of research during which an anthropologist gathers firsthand data about life in a particular society is called
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Fieldwork
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Graduate School
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Scientific Observation
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What are "rich points", according to Michael Agar
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Cases with many different meanings
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Moments when the anthropologist's informants finally figure out the questions being asked
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Unexpected moments when problems in cross-cultural understanding emerge
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Which of the following is not an approach to ethnographic fieldwork?
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The postivist approach
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The reflexive approach
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The multi-sited approach
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All of the above are approaches to ethnographic fieldwork
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Political conquest of one society by another, followed by cultural domination with enforced social change is a definition of-
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Capitalism
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Colonialism
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Feudalism
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The theory that proposed a series of stages through which all societies had passed or must pass to reach civilization is called
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Culture area theory
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Unilineal cultural evolutionism
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Diffusionism
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Which of the following was an effect of the fur trade on the indigenous people of North America?
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They were able to ignore it for long periods of time
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It caused serious problems for those groups that were dedicated to it once the fur-bearing animals were gone
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It led to the development of cole ties between indigenous peoples and the major nations of Europe and Asia
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A small, egalitarian social grouping whose members neither farm nor herd, but depend on wild food resources is called a
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band
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tribe
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chiefdom
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Which of the following statements about the fate of non-Western peoples in the wake of European exploration conquest, colonization, and decolonization is FALSE?
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European contact affect these societies in a radical way
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Fragments of precontact societies survive today
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An impressive variety of forms of human society remain, despite the Western onslaught
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Life in the non-Western world today remains timeless and unchanged
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Continued economic and political influence by former colonial powers following the political independanece of their former colonies is called
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Neocolonialism
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Capitalism
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Colonialism
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The key metaphor of capitalism is
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Those whose live by the sword die by the sword
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The world is a market and everything has its price
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Buy low, sell high
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A hierarchical, stratified society in which some groups permanently monopolize wealth, power, and prestige is called a
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State
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Band
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Tribe
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Chiefdom
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The study of the sound of language is called
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Phonology
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Morphology
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Syntax
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Semantics
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The study of language ideology discloses which of the following?
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Speakers' basic understandings of the world
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Power differences in the social world of the speakers
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Universal grammatical features of languages
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Both a and b
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The design feature of language called "openness" refers to the
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Possibility of speaking without fear of a censor
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Capacity of putting the speaker's true feelings into words
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Ability to create new linguistic messages freely and easily
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Connection between sound and brain
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Nonhuman primates cannot communicate vocally about absent or nonexistent objects or past or future events. Thus, their call systems lack the linguistic design feature of
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Complete feedback
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Displacement
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Discreteness
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Human linguistic messages can be false, and they can be meaningless in the logician's sense. This highlights the linguistic design feature of
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Interchangeability
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Prevarication
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Duality of patterning
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Reflexiveness
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The mastery of adult grammar is called
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Specialization
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Discreteness
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Communicative competence
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Linguistic competence
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Human languages are patterned at different levels, and the patterns that characterize one level cannot be reduced to the pattern of any other level. Hockett recognized this phenomenon in which of his linguistic design features?
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Duality of patterning
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Reflexiveness
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Specialization
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Displacement
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Which component of language is concerned with the way in which words are put together?
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Phonology
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Morphology
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Syntax
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Semantics
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The transfer of information from one person to another is
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Communication
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Language
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Speech
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Religious specialists skilled in the practice of religious rituals, which they carry out for the benefit of the group, are called
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Shamans
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Priests
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Oracles
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In some religious systems, certain objects or people may not be touched or else the cosmic power in them may drain away. This feature is captured in the minimal category of religion called
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Physiological exercise
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Mana
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Sacrifice
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Taboo
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To many people, the American flag stands for the "American way." The flag is thus an example of a(n)
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Elaborating symbol
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Summarizing symbol
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Personal symbol
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Archetype
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Syncretism involves
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Discarding the old ways and embracing the new
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Resisting the new ways and defending the old
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Combining the old and the new in an attempt to cope with change circumstances
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The growth of Western science contributed to the rise of which of the following kinds of key metaphor?
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Societal
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Technological
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Religious
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Organic
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How do the congregants at the evangelical Vineyard Christian Fellowship appear to explain misfortune?
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Victims have been attacked by witchcraft made by unknown enemies
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They do not offer any cause for misfortune, but instead seek solutions in their religious practices for it.
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Misfortune stems from social forces beyond their control
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When one worldview is backed by the powerful in society and alternative worldviews are censored, many social scientists would start to call the dominant worldview
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A philosophy
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An Ideology
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Secularism
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A religion
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Encompassing pictures of reality created by the members of a particular society are called
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Metaphors
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Schemas
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Experiential gestalts
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Worldviews
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Part-time religious practitioners who are believed to have the power to contact supernatural forces directly are called
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Shamans
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Priests
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Oracles
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Witches
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The separation of religion and state following the European Englightenment is called
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Democracy
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Multiculturalism
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Orthopraxy
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Secularism
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When the characteristics of human beings are attributed to nonhuman entities, this is an example of
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A technological metaphor
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An organic metaphor
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Personification
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Both b and c
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The Azande use chicken for
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Celebrations
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Detecting witches
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Enhancing the powers of witchcraft
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Which of the following are analytic, providing people with categories for thinking about the order of the world?
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Elaborating symbols
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Summarizing symbols
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Personal symbols
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National symbols
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Symbols may be
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Words
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Images
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Actions
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All of the above
Pregunta 45
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What is the conscious, deliberate attempt by some members of a society to create a more satisfying culture in a time of crisis by defending their own way of life?
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Syncretism
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Revitalization
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Communitas
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Liminality
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For anthropologists, "religion" includes
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A belief in God
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The assertion of idiosyncratic individuals beliefs about "reality"
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Claims that there is a reality beyond that which is immediately available to the senses
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The kinship is created by birth is called
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Collaterality
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Bifurcation
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Affinity
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Consanguinity
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A descent group formed by people who can specify their connections to one another through parent-child links to a common ancestor is a
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Lineage
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Clan
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Tribe
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Moiety
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For anthropologists, a nuclear family is made up of
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A married couple
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A married couple and their children
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Extended family
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Kinship terminologies suggest
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The boundaries of the significant groups in the society
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Where cleavages within groups are likely to occur
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The structure of rights and obligations assigned to different members of the society
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All of the above
Pregunta 51
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In addition to establishing links between generations through descent, kinship serves to establish
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Legitimacy of children
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Residence rules
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Inheritance rules
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All of the above
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According to Benedict Anderson, "imagined communities" are
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Groups whose members' knowledge of one another does not come from regular face-to-face interactions but is based on shared experiences with national institutions such as schools and government bureaucracies
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All communities larger than primordial villages of face-to-face contact
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Social groups that have existed since the beginning of time
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Both a and b
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Families in which several generations live together in a single household are called
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Nuclear families
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Extended families
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Joint families
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The study of kinship became important in anthropology because
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Kinship could be reduced to biology and thus could make cross-culutral comparison objective
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It showed how people could maintain social order without the institution of the state
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It enabled anthropologists to explain why some societies had remained primitive and others had advanced
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Kinship no longer existed in Western societies
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Kinship relations based on nurturance are called
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Marriage
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Adoption
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Descent
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Kinship relationships based on birth are called
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Descent
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Marriage
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Adoption
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Which of the following observations about kinship is stressed by the authors of the text?
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Different societies have chosen to highlight some features of the universal human experiences of mating, birth, and nurturance while downplaying or ignoring others
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Kinship is reducible to biology
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Kinship is a difficult and complex set of rules that societies follow
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Kinship relationships derived from mating are called
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Descent
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Marriage
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Adoption
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The kinship tie created by marriage is called
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Collaterality
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Bifurcation
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Affinity
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Consanguinity
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According to the text, culture consists of
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those elements of the human experience that require education and good taste, such as art, music, and dance
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sets of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society
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set of innate instincts that enable humans to function in a complex world
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A comparative study of many cultures is called
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ethnography
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ethnohistory
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ethnology
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To claim that members of a particular social group do not typically eat insects because they have learned to label insects as inedible is to use an explanation based on
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genetic programming
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biology
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ethnocentriscm
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culture
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A description of a particular culture is called an
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ethnology
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ethnography
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ethnohistory
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To be very poor and powerless in Haiti is to increase the likelihood that one will suffer
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Disease
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Hunger
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Suffering
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Violence
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All of the above
Pregunta 65
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Which of the following statements best describes culture-bound syndromes as described as described in the text?
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They are essentially indistinguishable from endemic disease
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They are found only in small-scale societies
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All of the above
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None of the above
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Charles Leslie employed the term "cosmopolitan medicine" to
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Emphasize that the practice of medicine is something found primarily in urban areas
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Indicate that non-Western medical beliefs and practices are best understood as cultural systems
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Suggest that biomedical approaches were one of a number of possible alternatives available to many people in multicultural societies
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When AIDS patients in Brazil organized politically to protest the cost of drugs that effectively deprived the poor of access to effective therapy for their condition
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They exhibited a social identity based on shared medical diagnosis
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They demanded that the state acknowledge that health was a human right
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They asserted their biological legitimacy
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They made the government respond to their citizen's health needs
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All of the above
Pregunta 68
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Severe suffering caused by forces and agents beyond individual control is called
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Stress
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Trauma
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Torture
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Structural context
Pregunta 69
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Use of the term "suffering" by many medical anthropologists to describe forms of distress experienced by individuals suggests
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That they believe that biomedical understandings of health and disease should not be used
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That they believe that biomedical understandings of health and disease are not universal
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A person's coping strategies can be maladaptive
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Although biomedicine has held that certain experiences can be taken as a sign of mental disturbance
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The case of evangelical Christians suggests how "hearing voices" can be good for people
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Believing in the ability of nonmaterial objects to penetrate the body is a clear indicator of emerging psychosis
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The experience of virtual reality gamers demonstrates that a divided self need not indicate a psychotic condition
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Both a and c
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Structural violence results from
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Residual damage when buildings, bridges, or other similar structures collapse
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The way that political and economic forces structure risk for suffering within a population
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Military operations that are the result of civil war and interal unrest
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Researchers who consider the connection between aspects of culture, socioeconoic conditions, politics, and human health in what subfield of anthroplogy?
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Biological
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Archaeology
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Medical Anthropology
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The primary lesson to be learned from the example provided in the text regarding lactose intolerance is that
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South Asians become sick when they try to consume powdered milk
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Adults who are able to absorb lactose from milk effectively appear to be genetically related to human populations with a history of dairying
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Most human infants are able to absorb lactose
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Based on the explanations provided in the textbook, one way we might distinguish between "disease" and "illness" is to say
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That whereas disease is universal, illness applies only to particular cultural groups
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That disease refers to biological processes recognized and described within biomedicine, whereas illness is described as an individual's own interpretation of his or her suffering
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That disease refers to more serious forms of illness that needs to be treated by scientific medicine
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Symbolically important goods transferred from the family of the groom to the family of the bride in exchange for the loss of the bride's labor and childbearing capacity are called
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Bridewealth
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Bloodwealth
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Dowry
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Gay and lesbian activists studied by Kath Weston in San Francisco in the 1980s based their theory of family ties on
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Birth
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Descent
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Marriage
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Nurturance
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In Zumbagua, Ecuador, a family is defined as
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Mother, Father, and unmarried children
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Mother and children
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Those who eat together
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A transfer of wealth, usually from parents to their daughter, at the time of her marriage, is called
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Bridewealth
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Bloodwealth
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Dowry
Pregunta 79
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The distinction made between the mother's side of the family and the father's side of the family is called
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Collaterality
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Bifurcation
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Affinity
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Every religious system in the world has a customary way of addressing the supernatural. This feature is captured by the minimal category of religion called
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Prayer
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Exhortation
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Mana
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Metaphors, or the symbols that represent them, can be used as instruments of power when
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They are under the direct control of a person wishing to affect the behavior of others
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They are used for reference or in support of certain conduct
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Some people are able to impose their metaphors on others
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All of the above
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According to the text, what keeps cultural anthropology from being one person's subjective impression of other people?
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The fact that fieldwork is dialogue
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The fact that anthropology is a science
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The fact that anthropologists are trained to avoid ethnocentrism
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According to David Hess, cited in the test, what is a fact?
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A piece of reality
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A taken-for-granted item of common knowledge
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What is left when everything is explained
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Whatever the anthropologist says it is, after careful research
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"Rich Points," Michael Agar's expression discussed in the text, are
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Cases with many different meanings
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Places where the anthropologists must pay more for information because it is so sensitive
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Unexpected moments when problems in cross-cultural understanding emerge
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Field data are the product of long discussions between researcher and informant in which both try to figure out a world that they share. In a word, they are
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Objective
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Subjective
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Intersubjective
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Reflexivity is
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An automatic response
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The outcome of objective observation and dispassionate analysis
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Thinking about thinking
Pregunta 87
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Positivists accept that
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Reality can be known through the five senses
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It is necessary to sensitive to the way things ought to be and not just they way things are
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Human beings are significantly different from other kinds of natural phenomena
Pregunta 88
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Which of the following is NOT an approach to ethnographic fieldwork?
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The positivist approach
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The reflexive approach
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The multi-sited approach
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All of the above are approaches to ethnographic fieldwork
Pregunta 89
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The work of many American anthropologists in the early part of the 20th century was called the "salvage ethnography" because
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It was carried out among so-called "savage" peoples
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Officials in state and national government were trying to eliminate the Bureau of Ethnology
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It was widely believed that the people among whom the anthropologists worked were doomed to disappear
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Western European contact with the rest of the world was
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Neutral
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Based on political and economic interests
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Egalitarian
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Intended to promote cross-cultural understanding
Pregunta 91
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A holistic term that attempts to capture the centrality of material interest and the use of power to defend the interest is
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Political economy
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Sacred persuasion
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Secular persuasion
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Classifications of human societies help us to
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Perceive the sharp boundaries that separate societies from one another
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See some of the ways societies are similar and different, while obscuring others
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Understand why some societies are more advanced than others
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If people, practices, or artifacts could move across social boundaries in the ways that boas and his students showed then this suggested that
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The boundaries around societies were not impermeable
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The supposedly firm boundaries around biological "races" were vulnerable to critique
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Any particular association of linguistic and cultural practices with a particular human population was an artifact in history
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All of the above
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Which of the following was NOT a stage in the unilineal cultural evolutionist's model?
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Barbarism
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Civilization
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Savagery
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Tribalism
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The term culture area refers to a geographical region
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In which a particular stage of cultural evolution has been reached
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In which all societies can be classified as representatives of the same structural-functional type
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Marking the limits of the diffusion of a particular cultural trait or set of traits
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When Europeans first established commercial relationships in Africa
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Within 10 years, they had conquered deeply into the continent
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The Africans welcomed them as liberators from the cruel rulers of the coastal empires
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They were not allowed to penetrate very far inland for more than 400 years
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Political independence for colonies
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Led to a return to traditional ways
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Made little economic difference
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Allowed the citizens of new states to take complete control of their own economic destinies
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Both a & c
Pregunta 98
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According to Marshall Sahlins, which of the following is a route to affluence?
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Colonial conquest
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producing much
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Desiring little
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Both b & c
Pregunta 99
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According to the test, the division between food collectors and food producers illustrates a distinction between different kinds of
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Survival strategies
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nourishment strategies
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subsistence strategies
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To the question, "why do people x raise peanuts and sorghum" malinowski would reply
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To meet their basic human need for food
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Because peanuts and sorghum are the only food available in their ecozone that, when cultivated will meet their needs
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Because both foods taken together provide complete proteins
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Sometimes Western commodities are
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rejected by vulnerable groups
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used by local people for their own purposes, rather than for the purpose fr which they were originally designed
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used to enrich culture
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all of the above
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The using up of material good necessary for human survival is called
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Production
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distribution
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exchange
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consumption
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Play is
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Consciously adapted
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pleasurable
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transformative
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all of the above
Pregunta 104
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Some scholars have proposed that play is connected with
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Developing cognitive and motor skills involving the brain
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exercise
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learning
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all of the above
Pregunta 105
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Metacommunication refers to
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communication systems in advanced societies
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communication about communication
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ordinary communication studied out of context
Pregunta 106
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Where humor critical of rulers is censored, such humor
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disappears
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is directed into other channels
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becomes a form of political resistence
Pregunta 107
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Which of the following statements about sport is true?
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In the world of institutionalized sport, play is the work of the players
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play is only one component of sport
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even if a sport has become institutionalized, the spectators are still playing
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all of the above
Pregunta 108
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According to Christian Bromberger, French and Italian soccer fans are fascinated by the game because
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The course of a match resembles the uncertain fate of people in the contemporary world
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At the end they have a clear-cut demonstration of who the winners and losers are
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Of the predictability of players' choise
Pregunta 109
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Play with form producing some aesthetically successful transformation-representation is a definition of
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Games
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Art
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sport
Pregunta 110
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A Javanese artist makes a puppet of the great mythic hero Arjuna out of water buffalo hide for use in the shadow puppet plays call wajang. This is an example of what the text calls
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Transformation-representation
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Aesthetic creation
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formal evaluation
Pregunta 111
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Artists in non-western societies
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are divorced from everyday life
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produce work that is more interesting to western collectors than it is to the people in their own societies
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work with symbols that are of central importance to their societies
Pregunta 112
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"Art by intention" inludes
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objects that are made to be art
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objects that have been made for religious purposes
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objects that are found and exhibited
Pregunta 113
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According to Shelly Errington as cited in the text, "art by appropriation" includes
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objects that museums decided were art
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african masks
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ancestor figures from New Guinea
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All of the above
Pregunta 114
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In today's global art market
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People who make primitive or tribal art are no longer tribal
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most producers of ethnic arts sell their work to wealthy western collectors
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Producers of ethnic and tribal arts provides a new and successful economic strategy for tribal peoples
Pregunta 115
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Which of the following statements reflects the way anthropologists understand myth?
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Myths are flawed ttempts at science or history
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myths may justify past action, explain action in the present, or generate future action
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myths are tools for overcoming logical contradictions that cannot otherwise be overcome
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Both b & c are true
Pregunta 116
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Stories whose truth seems self-evident because they integrate personal experiences with a wider set of assumptions about the way the world works are called
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folktales
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metaphors
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myths
Pregunta 117
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Which of the following does not reflect the anthropological understanding ofritual?
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Rituals are exclusively religious in nature
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Rituals are repetitive social practices composed of a sequence ofsymbolic activites
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ritual shapes action as well as thought
Pregunta 118
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Which of the following is learned at a child's birthday party of the united states?
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that exchanging material objects is important in defining significant social relations
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how to symbolize friendship and socialability
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how to share with others
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all of the above
Pregunta 119
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What are the 3 stages of rites of passage?
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separation, transition, reaggregation
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effacement, transition, delivery
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communitas, liminality, marginality
Pregunta 120
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Liminal, from the Latin word limen, means
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sprite
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containing
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transporting
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threshold
Pregunta 121
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Play communicates about ______ while ritual communicates about _____.
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body; mind
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what should be; what is
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what can be; what out to be
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