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Artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and cloning are four forms of which of the following types of technologies? a. bilateral b. reductive c. propagative d. reproductive e. productive Anthropologist ________used her research in a Mexican brothel to encourage a […]

French sociologist Emile Durkheim defined which of the following as an alienation that individuals experience when faced with physical dislocation and the disruption of their social networks and group values? a. habitus b. communitas c. anomie d. hegemony e. sacredness […]

The Maasai people created their own nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in an effort to represent them at negotiations and assert their political rights to resources and recognition with the Tanzanian government, which had largely ignored them. These are examples of a(n): […]

The experience of the African American community of Corona, New York, who prevented developers from degrading their neighborhoods with an elevated train, is an example of: a. institutional racism. b. personal racism. c. racial ideology. d. resisting racism. e. reverse […]

Nigerians do not regard homosexuality as: a. an authentically African lifestyle. b. part of the Western influences that have been flooding into Africa for years. c. a new front of Western imperial domination. d. forbidden by Muslim sharia law. e. […]

Which of the following is NOT a motivation that cultural anthropologist Denise Brennan lists for young, rural, poor Dominican women to migrate to towns like Sosua? a. to make money b. to have a vacation c. to marry a tourist […]

Antonio Gramsci (1891″1937) described two aspects of power that included material power and: a. hegemony. b. coercion. c. influence. d. prestige. e. wealth. Art in Western traditions is often associated with notions of ________ art. a. popular b. tourist c. […]

What is described in the text as “an invisible package of unearned assets” that are the legacy of generations of racial discrimination? a. white privilege b. culture of poverty c. social capital d. stratified whiteness e. fascism In the United […]

Ambilineal descent groups such as Samoans, Maori, and Hawaiians are sometimes referred to as: a. unilineal descent groups. b. polylineal descent groups. c. cognatic descent groups. d. monolineal descent groups. e. bilineal descent groups. Which of the following is defined […]

The tens of thousands of young people across the Arab world who came out to oppose and change the governments of Egypt and Tunisia demonstrated what aspect of their movement? a. agency b. authority c. politics d. power e. process […]

Someone who ________ would be said to be part of the 1.5 generation. a. is fifteen years old b. was born in California, but had parents who were born in Cuba c. was born in Cuba and migrated in his […]

________ is the cornerstone of the research conducted by contemporary cultural anthropologists. a. Participant observation b. Archival research c. Statistical analysis d. Synchronic study e. Unilineal evolution The author attributes the increased popularity of Tibetan medicine in recent decades to: […]

The preferred term for individuals of an alternate gender in Native American cultures is: a. hijras. b. macho. c. Two-Spirits. d. transgendered. e. hermaphrodite. Commonplace norms, values, beliefs, practices, and institutions that cultivate the desire to acquire consumer goods to […]

East German soldiers and border guards had been ready and willing to shoot and kill members of the U.S. military who they saw as enemies who would just as gladly kill them, yet after they had been demobilized by the […]

A story that is told about the founding and history of a particular group to reinforce a common sense of identity is called a: a. creation story. b. folk tale. c. history. d. “just so” story. e. origin myth. The […]

The incest taboo universally prohibits sexual relations: a. between cousins, regardless of cross- or parallel cousin relationships. b. between first cousins and between second cousins. c. between parents and children and siblings. d. between half siblings and parallel cousins. e. […]

Malaysians divide people into three “biological” groups, Brazilians have more than three hundred, and Americans divide people into three, four, or even five of these groups called: a. clines. b. ethnicities. c. phylogenies. d. biomes. e. races. Societies in which […]

Most groups of people have tales about where they came from and when, which unite them as a group. These tales are known as: a. creation stories. b. folk tales. c. histories. d. origin myths. e. tall tales. Karl Marx […]

Among other changes that occur with the transition to intensive agriculture: a. population sizes tend to decrease. b. peasants’ surpluses are transferred to the dominant elite. c. a more egalitarian lifestyle emerges. d. populations became less sedentary. e. trade tends […]

Historical linguistics is defined as: a. a nonstandard variation of a language that is particular to a specific region. b. the study of the development of language over time, including its changes and variations. c. alternating back and forth between […]

Systems of class and inequality: a. no longer exist in postindustrialized nation-states such as the United States. b. create an unequal distribution of a society’s resources. c. are a natural feature of human culture. d. are exemplified by hunter-gatherer societies. […]

According to the text, ________ is/are a direct cause of global warming. a. turtle hunting in Honduras b. the melting ice sheets in the Himalayas c. the shift to production of organic foods d. carbon emissions from gas and oil […]

The Occupy Wall Street movement was able to gain support by focusing on inequality with the motto “We are the 99 percent,” and combining physical and virtual elements of their protest. This is an example of: a. cause clbre. b. […]

Karl Marx argued that capitalists increased their wealth by extracting the surplus labor value from which of the following? a. factories b. natural resources c. industries d. workers e. products In late nineteenth-century debates on American immigration, many scholars and […]

The belief that one’s own culture or way of life is normal and natural, and viewing the different practices of other people as strange and unnatural, is called: a. myopia. b. relativism. c. narrow-mindedness. d. shortsightedness. e. ethnocentrism. Worldwide, the […]

Explain where and when the so-called Triangle Trade occurred, identifying the three primary commodities the text discusses in this exchange network. Contrast the production and exchanges that occurred in the Caribbean plantation economy with the exchanges occurring between European trappers […]

According to contemporary cultural anthropologists, humans in most cultures engage in sexual activity: a. both for procreation and fun. b. for procreation only. c. for fun only. d. as a form of economic exchange. e. very seldom. Pierre Bourdieu worked […]

When individuals speak in a manner that does not conform to what is known as “Standard English,” according to the author, they are: a. speaking a dialect of English that is linguistically flawed. b. usually seen as speaking a prestige […]

Groups of people create and promote traits to signify who is in the group and who is out. These are called: a. apartheid. b. cultural walls. c. ethnic boundaries. d. segregation. e. social signifiers. A local nongovernmental organization that challenges […]