Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age 1st Edition

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 Answer: D Answer: D Answer: D Anthropologist ________used her research in a Mexican brothel to encourage a rethinking of the U.S. public policy debate over the criminalization of sex work. 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 Answer: C Answer: C Answer: C In his study of store clerks in New York City, William Labov discovered

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): a. local service agency. b. international aid society. c. indigenous charity. d. civil society

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 racism. Answer: D Answer: D Answer: D Max Weber referred to the opportunities that individuals have to improve their

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. a marginalized status. Answer: A Answer: A Answer: A Violence perpetuated through sexually related physical assaults such as rape

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 d. to provide for their families e. to obtain a European visa Answer: B Answer: B Answer: B ________

Antonio Gramsci (1891"1937) described two aspects of power that included material power and: a. hegemony. b. coercion. c. influence. d. prestige. e. wealth. Answer: A Answer: A Answer: A Art in Western traditions is often associated with notions of ________ art. a. popular b. tourist c. universal d. authentic e. high Answer: E Answer: E Answer: E Which of the following anthropologists examined the role of religion in

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 Answer: A Answer: A Answer: A In the United States, good health is tied to the cultural value of: a. community bonds. b. religiosity. c.

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. Answer: C Answer: C Answer: C Which of the following is defined as the anthropological approach that views society as consisting of various parts that

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 Answer: A Answer: A Answer: A Acheulian stone tools are associated with: a. Australopithecus. b. Homo hablis. c. Homo erectus.

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 or her fifties d. was born in Cuba but grew up in the United

________ 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 Answer: A Answer: A Answer: A The author attributes the increased popularity of Tibetan medicine in recent decades to: a. international migration. b. the end of colonization there. c. a rejection of ethnomedicine. d. a desire

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. Answer: C Answer: C Answer: C Commonplace norms, values, beliefs, practices, and institutions that cultivate the desire to acquire consumer goods to enhance one's lifestyle constitute a culture of: a. cosmopolitanism. b. materialism. c. hegemony. d. power. e. consumerism.

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 reunited Germany, they were able to sit down with former

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. Answer: E Answer: E Answer: E The ability or potential to bring about change through action or influence is referred

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. between half siblings and cross cousins. Answer: C Answer: C Answer: C Religious revivals have been spreading across various

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. Answer: E Answer: E Answer: E Societies in which prestige and status are stratified but wealth is not are considered: a. ambilineal. b. reciprocal. c.

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. Answer: D Answer: D Answer: D Karl Marx examined social inequality by distinguishing between which two distinct classes of people? a. prestige

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 to occur at the local level rather than at the long-distance level. Answer: B Answer: B Answer: B Evaluate

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 more than one linguistic variant depending on the context. d. the idea that variation

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. e. have no impact on an individual's life chances. Answer: B Answer: B Answer: B The way systems of

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 fuels e. growing manioc in the Amazon Answer: D Answer: D Answer: D Which of the following statements about

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. reasoning. c. social rationale. d. justification. e. the framing process. Answer: E Answer: E Answer: E Because few children grow

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 Answer: D Answer: D Answer: D In late nineteenth-century debates on American immigration, many scholars and government officials privileged immigrants from northern Europe over those from southern Europe, such

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. Answer: E Answer: E Answer: E Worldwide, the most spoken language is: a. Hindi. b. Chinese. c. Spanish. d. English. e. Arabic. Answer: B Answer: B Answer: B The author

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 and Native American populations in North America. Answer: Students should identify

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. Answer: A Answer: A Answer: A Pierre Bourdieu worked to understand the relationship between class, culture, and power by examining which of the

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 language. c. unaffected by their nonstandard speech. d. often considered to be uneducated or

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. Answer: C Answer: C Answer: C A local nongovernmental organization that challenges state policies and uneven development, and advocates for resources and opportunities for members