Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity 15th Edition

Fundamentalists are correct in seeing a rise in secularism in contemporary North America. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False Which of the following statements about irrigation is NOT true? A. Irrigated fields typically increase in value through time. B. Irrigation is one of the defining characteristics of foraging societies. C. Irrigation usually enriches the soil. D. The

De facto discrimination occurs when laws exist that harm a specific group and its members. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False Genocide refers to the physical destruction of an ethnic or religious group through mass murder. Answer: True Answer: True Answer: True One theory regarding the universality of the incest taboo argues that by forcing people

In bands, the leader occupies an official office with coercive control over the members of the community. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False Health care systems refers to the nationalized health care services that exist only in core industrial nations. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False Rites of passage involve three phases: separation, liminality, and totemism.

According to Karl Marx, classes are A. complementary, in that they each do different tasks necessary for the survival of the society. B. part of the original, preindustrial social system of humans. C. powerful collective forces that could mobilize human energies to influence the course of history. D. based more on notions of prestige

Developmental anthropology is the branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimensions of, moral development. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False Traditionally, ethnographers have tried to understand the whole of a particular culture. Answer: True Answer: True Answer: True The reason students of non-Western art have generally ignored individual artists

The world's linguistic diversity has been cut in half, as measured by the number of distinct languages extant, in the past 500 years, and half of the remaining languages are predicted to disappear during this century. Answer: True Answer: True Answer: True In the caste system of India, failure to adhere to class

Human biological differences are evident only to individuals who wrongfully sustain the validity of human races. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False Behaviors associated with sports fandom could be considered secular rituals. Answer: True Answer: True Answer: True In a study among the Hopi of northeastern Arizona, more than a third of the women of this

A policy of ethnic expulsion aims at removing from a country groups who are culturally different. There are many examples, including Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s; Uganda expelling 74,000 Asians in 1972; and so on. The neofascist parties of contemporary western Europe advocate the repatriation of immigrant workers. What is one of

Sociolinguistics has demonstrated that men lack the linguistic capacity to distinguish between slight changes in color. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False Hypodescent in the United States automatically determines the race of a child whose parents belong to different racial groups. Answer: True Answer: True Answer: True Although humans do employ tools much more than any

Cultural relativists believe that a culture should be judged only according to the standards and traditions of that culture and not according to the standards of other cultural traditions. Answer: True Answer: True Answer: True Colonialism often involves dividing up ethnic groups to weaken their authority. Answer: True Answer: True Answer: True Traditionally, art and religion

People have to eat, but culture teaches us what, when, and how to do so. This is an example of how A. culture takes the natural biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express them in particular ways. B. biology dominates culture. C. we are all just uncultured

Anthropologists study only non-Western cultures. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False The origins of BEV are found mostly in West Africa, not in the dialects of the southern part of the United States. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False Acculturation is the process by which people lose the culture that they learned as children. Answer: False Answer:

The role of natural selection in producing variation in human skin color illustrates the explanatory approach to explaining human biological diversity. Answer: True Answer: True Answer: True Globalization promotes intercultural communication, migration, and commerce, thereby increasing the opportunities for what the text describes as postmodern moments. Answer: True Answer: True Answer: True If John marries his deceased

This chapter mentions the work of Wolf and Mintz, both students of Julian Steward, as illustrations of approaches that A. put human agency at the center of cultural analysis. B. focus on the study of cultures as closed systems, untouched by regional and even global dynamics. C. ignore the role of history in

Radiative forcings work to warm and cool the earth. If these didn"t exist, there would be no global warming. Answer: False Answer: False Answer: False mile Durkheim, an early scholar of religion, stressed what he termed religious effervescence. Anthropologists too have stressed the collective, social, shared, and enacted nature of religion, the emotions