Anthropology Final

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Learning about another culture is often greatest

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Cultural Anthropological fieldwork is

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Eric Luke Lassiter urges that ethnographers go beyond the dialectic of fieldwork to do what?

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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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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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The people who become a cultural anthropoligst's key informants tend to be-

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According to the test, anthropological knowledge is

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The dialectic of fieldwork refers to the

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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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The jolt that often accompanies an encounter with cultural practices that are unexpected and unfamiliar is called

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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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What are "rich points", according to Michael Agar

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Which of the following is not an approach 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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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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Which of the following was an effect of the fur trade on the indigenous people of North America?

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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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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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Continued economic and political influence by former colonial powers following the political independanece of their former colonies is called

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The key metaphor of capitalism is

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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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The study of the sound of language is called

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The study of language ideology discloses which of the following?

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The design feature of language called "openness" refers to the

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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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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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The mastery of adult grammar is called

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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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Which component of language is concerned with the way in which words are put together?

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The transfer of information from one person to another is

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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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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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To many people, the American flag stands for the "American way." The flag is thus an example of a(n)

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Syncretism involves

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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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How do the congregants at the evangelical Vineyard Christian Fellowship appear to explain misfortune?

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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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Encompassing pictures of reality created by the members of a particular society are called

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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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The separation of religion and state following the European Englightenment is called

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When the characteristics of human beings are attributed to nonhuman entities, this is an example of

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The Azande use chicken for

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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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Symbols may be

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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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For anthropologists, "religion" includes

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The kinship is created by birth is called

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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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For anthropologists, a nuclear family is made up of

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Kinship terminologies suggest

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In addition to establishing links between generations through descent, kinship serves to establish

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According to Benedict Anderson, "imagined communities" are

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Families in which several generations live together in a single household are called

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The study of kinship became important in anthropology because

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Kinship relations based on nurturance are called

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Kinship relationships based on birth are called

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Which of the following observations about kinship is stressed by the authors of the text?

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Kinship relationships derived from mating are called

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The kinship tie created by marriage is called

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According to the text, culture consists of

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A comparative study of many cultures is called

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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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A description of a particular culture is called an

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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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Which of the following statements best describes culture-bound syndromes as described as described in the text?

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Charles Leslie employed the term "cosmopolitan medicine" to

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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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Severe suffering caused by forces and agents beyond individual control is called

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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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Although biomedicine has held that certain experiences can be taken as a sign of mental disturbance

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Structural violence results from

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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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The primary lesson to be learned from the example provided in the text regarding lactose intolerance is that

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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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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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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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In Zumbagua, Ecuador, a family is defined as

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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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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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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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Metaphors, or the symbols that represent them, can be used as instruments of power when

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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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According to David Hess, cited in the test, what is a fact?

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"Rich Points," Michael Agar's expression discussed in the text, are

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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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Reflexivity is

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Positivists accept that

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Which of the following is NOT an approach to ethnographic fieldwork?

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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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Western European contact with the rest of the world was

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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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Classifications of human societies help us to

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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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Which of the following was NOT a stage in the unilineal cultural evolutionist's model?

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The term culture area refers to a geographical region

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When Europeans first established commercial relationships in Africa

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Political independence for colonies

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According to Marshall Sahlins, which of the following is a route to affluence?

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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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To the question, "why do people x raise peanuts and sorghum" malinowski would reply

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Sometimes Western commodities are

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The using up of material good necessary for human survival is called

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Play is

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Some scholars have proposed that play is connected with

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Metacommunication refers to

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Where humor critical of rulers is censored, such humor

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Which of the following statements about sport is true?

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According to Christian Bromberger, French and Italian soccer fans are fascinated by the game because

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Play with form producing some aesthetically successful transformation-representation is a definition of

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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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Artists in non-western societies

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"Art by intention" inludes

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According to Shelly Errington as cited in the text, "art by appropriation" includes

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In today's global art market

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Which of the following statements reflects the way anthropologists understand myth?

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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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Which of the following does not reflect the anthropological understanding ofritual?

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Which of the following is learned at a child's birthday party of the united states?

Quiz sobre Anthropology Final , criado por Katie Oltman em 12-12-2017.

Anthropology Final

Learning about another culture is often greatest

Cultural Anthropological fieldwork is

Eric Luke Lassiter urges that ethnographers go beyond the dialectic of fieldwork to do what?

The ethnographic research method that relies primarily on face-to-face contact with people as they go about their daily lives is called

The production of objective knowledge about reality that is absolute and true for all times and places is a goal of -

The people who become a cultural anthropoligst's key informants tend to be-

According to the test, anthropological knowledge is

The dialectic of fieldwork refers to the

Which of the following is involved in deciding where an anthropologist will do his or her fieldwork?

The jolt that often accompanies an encounter with cultural practices that are unexpected and unfamiliar is called

An extended period of research during which an anthropologist gathers firsthand data about life in a particular society is called

What are "rich points", according to Michael Agar

Which of the following is not an approach to ethnographic fieldwork?

Political conquest of one society by another, followed by cultural domination with enforced social change is a definition of-

The theory that proposed a series of stages through which all societies had passed or must pass to reach civilization is called

Which of the following was an effect of the fur trade on the indigenous people of North America?

A small, egalitarian social grouping whose members neither farm nor herd, but depend on wild food resources is called a

Which of the following statements about the fate of non-Western peoples in the wake of European exploration conquest, colonization, and decolonization is FALSE?

Continued economic and political influence by former colonial powers following the political independanece of their former colonies is called

The key metaphor of capitalism is