According to Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement), the UN has several
categories of refugees. The refugee most likely to be accepted for resettlement in a
second country is called the “economic refugee.”
A leader is a person who obtains power through authority.
As he describes it in his article on the uses of anthropology, McCurdy notes that one of
the problems at UTC was that warehouse workers failed to count books correctly.
According to Guneratne and Bjork (Village Walks), most of guides that led tours to
Pipariya were from lower ranking ethnic groups and had little knowledge of the Tharu.
According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), Peace Corps volunteers working in
Botswana often isolated themselves, hung out with other Americans or Europeans, felt
spiteful toward the Tswana, and failed to complete contracts.
Brenda Mann (You@Work) argues that good “netiquette” is important as you “brand”
yourself in the job market.
Bestor (How Sushi Went Global) notes that the Japanese love of sushi increased
because the introduction of jet aircraft in the 1960s made it possible to ship fresh
bluefin tuna, the centerpiece of sushi, to Japan before the fish could spoil.
In a Chinese family, women are at the mercy of their husband’s family throughout life,
without recourse to the support of other people.
Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job) claims that men’s failure to ask for
directions is a serious flaw in communications between the sexes in the workplace and
should be changed.
Sterk (Prostitution in the Era of AIDS) found that it is essential to become an expert on
questions.
the lives of informants before interviewing them and to use such information to design
interviews.
Ehrenreich and Hochschild (Global Women in the New Economy) report that Third
World women working as maids and nannies in America have caused the American
children they care for to feel stress because such women are foreign and can”t
understand how to treat their American charges.
According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), female inmates at two
California prisons often avoid seeking treatment for the ailments because getting an
appointment with a health care provider took so long and many inmates could not
afford the required copay.
According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), the Turkish
government years ago banned the wearing of native dress including the veil.
Descent is a rule of relationship that links people together on the basis of reputed
common ancestry. It often serves to regulate inheritance and the formation of kin
groups.
According to Bestor (How Sushi Went Global), America has become the sushi center of
the world market for bluefin tuna and Japan has come to be on the periphery.
Nelson (Eskimo Science) argues that the Eskimo’s knowledge of the animals in their
cold environment rivals that of Western trained scientists.
According to Scheper-Hughes, civil and church authorities in the northeast town of
Bom Jesus de Mata, Brazil, treat infant death casually and without much concern.
As used in this book, the term status refers to a person’s social rank.
According to the Freeds (Taraka’s Ghost) Sita’s possession by Taraka, her dead cousin,
was connected to her anxiety about sex and death.
In his article, “Mixed Blood,” Fish argues that the American concept of race is
culturally constructed, not a biological reality
The fact that Chinese women find support in their uterine families is a reason for
conflict within their husband’s extended family.
Grammar refers to the categories and rules for linking vocal symbols with their
referents.
If a religious specialist were to use a powerful saying to cure a sick individual,
anthropologists would label him or her a shaman.
The concept of “explicit culture” is a key part of Herbert Blumer’s theory of symbolic
interaction.
Sutherland argues that Gypsies hide their personal identity as a way to combat
persecution by members of the societies in which they live.
Jared Diamond (Domestication and the Evolution of Disease) argues that crowd
diseases such as smallpox evolved in the old world because of population growth and
high density, the domestication of animals, and the advent of extensive trade.
A family is a kin group made up of at least one married couple and their children, and
which is residential and which has sexual, reproductive, economic, and educational
functions.
The origin of bipedality (two-footedness) in humans is something that an anthropologist
interested in cultural ecology would study.
Pitchers have the most control over the outcome of what they do in baseball and
therefore use the least magic.
Nelson (Eskimo Science) notes that Alaska’s Koyukon Indians and Inupiaq have
benefited from the science courses they have taken at newly government-established
boarding schools.
Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement) argues that the only way refugees can
gain resettlement in another country is by having a useful skill needed by the country or
by the intervention of relatives or friends who guarantee they will provide the
refugees with jobs.
According to Cronk in his article, “Reciprocity and the Power of Giving,” gift giving
can be used to intimidate people.
According to Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement), the Nuer refugees who have
been resettled in the United States were originally a pastoral people living in
the southern Sudan.
According to Deutscher (You Are What You Speak), Benjamin Lee Whorf argued that
despite speaking different languages, people everywhere think alike.
Class is a kind of stratification defined by unequal access to prestige and valued
resources but which permits individual mobility.
Any guidelines that can lead directly to action are called “policy.”
Patten (Malawi Versus the World Bank) argues that 95 percent of the Malawian
population lives on small farms 1 to 4 acres in size.
Shandy and Moe (The Opt-Out Phenomenon) note that a factor they call “the second
shift” pulls women out of the work force for a life at home.
When the Tiv informed Laura Bohannan that she must be wrong about Hamlet’s father’s
ghost because the dead cannot talk, they displayed what anthropologists call
a. culture shock.
b. naive realism.
c. ethnography.
d. tacit culture.
e. cross-cultural solidarity.
The cultural knowledge for making and using tools and extracting and refining raw
materials is called
a. production.
b. division of labor.
c. unit of production.
d. technology.
e. economic plans.
Fish (Mixed Blood) argues that human biological races do not exist because
a. human physical characteristics, such as skin color and nose shape, do not vary
together.
b. scientists have ignored important physical traits such as body shape.
c. people find it politically incorrect to name them.
d. the real traits that indicate genetic groupings cannot be observed.
e. none of the above
According to Sterk (Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS), about _____ percent
of the prostitutes she interviewed were not drug addicts.
a. 10
b. 25
c. 2
d. 40
e. 15
Gmelch notes that fetishes are often associated with baseball magic. These are
a. things to be avoided.
b. repetitive actions.
c. sacred objects.
d. sayings.
e. aquatic animals with fins.
According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the prison position of MTA
consisted of a
a. nurse practitioner.
b. medically trained guard.
c. medical appointment secretary.
d. designated prison doctor.
e. medical procedure coordinator.
The process by which a cultural custom, item, or concept is transformed to fit the
cultural context of a society that borrows it is called
a. globalization.
b. tourism.
c. transnationalism.
d. world systemization.
e. cultural hybridization.
According to Bestor (How Sushi Went Global), Tsukiji, Tokyo’s wholesale seafood
market
a. sets the world price for bluefin tuna.
b. controls the supply of bluefin tuna by delaying their sale, sometimes for days.
c. is sent daily information about tuna conditions in such fishing grounds as Montauk,
Cape Cod, and Cartagena by fisherman in return for information about prices.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
A society in which there is unequal access to prestige but equal access to economic
resources is called a(n)
a. egalitarian society.
b. socially stratified society.
c. rank society.
d. caste society.
e. class society.
Dubisch (Run for the Wall) argues that participation in the Run for the Wall
a. is like a rite-of-passage moving normal veterans into a select group of war advocates.
b. a needless glorification of war.
c. a personally transforming experience partly designed to heal personal wounds.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement), Nuer boys go through a
painful initiation ceremony called the
a. IDP ceremony.
b. gaar ceremony.
c. cicatrization ceremony.
d. rite of passage.
e. ngoya ceremony.
Four of the following statements made by Sterk (Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of
AIDS), are true. Which one is not?
a. It is wise to watch out for self-appointed “gatekeepers.”
b. The best way to gain rapport is to show interest in informants and do things for them.
c. Have some knowledge about a culture before you start fieldwork in it.
d. Talking with informants in groups often inhibits ethnographic discovery.
e. It is best to give informants some control over the interview.
According to Goldstein (Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife), Tibetan polyandry
functions above all to
a. adapt Tibetans to a shortage of land.
b. permit richer farmers to maintained their standard of living.
c. respond to a shortage of women caused by high rates of female infanticide.
d. preserve the matriline.
e. preserve the patriline.
According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), the Taliban
treated the wearing burqa as a ________ requirement.
a. political
b. optional
c. economic
d. religious
e. fashion
Diamond (Domestication and the Evolution of Disease) argues that hunter/gatherers
were not afflicted by epidemic diseases because
a. their populations were too small.
b. they moved their camps several times a year, which contributed to good sanitation.
c. they did not keep domesticated animals, the primary source of infectious diseases.
d. they did not engage in long-distance trading on a regular basis.
e. all of the above
Shandy and Moe (The Opt-Out Phenomenon) state that _______ “pushes” women to
leave work for a life at home.
a. nostalgia
b. the second shift
c. to be with children
d. job loss
e. none of the above
When it is preferred that a woman marry a man from her own village, we call the
arrangement
a. polygyny.
b. exogamy.
c. endogamy.
d. polyandry.
e. levirate.
According to Patten (Malawi Versus the World Bank), the main crop of subsistence
farmers in Malawi is
a. cassava.
b. wheat.
c. sorghum.
d. maize.
e. sweet potatoes.
According to Harris (Life without Chiefs), the movement toward greater social
stratification in human societies was inspired by
a. the human tendency to form hierarchies.
b. the production of extra (beyond the immediate needs of people) food.
c. the advent of formal religion.
d. the fact that some men and some women produced more food than others.
e. none of the above
Sutherland (The Case of the Gypsy Offender) notes that the lawyer defending a young
Gypsy man of using a relative’s social security number argued in court that
a. the Gypsy had not intended to commit a crime when he used the number.
b. the Gypsy used the number because of a fear of pollution (marime) from
non-Gypsies.
c. Gypsies did not traditionally use social security so social security numbers had no
importance to them.
d. two of the above
e. none of the above
According to Spradley, the actions generated by cultural knowledge are called
a. social control.
b. cultural behavior.
c. cultural generation.
d. cultural artifacts.
e. explicit culture.
Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement), notes that the U.S. immigration service
has settled the Nuer in about 30 different states because
a. they could not find a single location for them all.
b. they feel refugees adjust better if they are scattered in small groups around the
country.
c. they will have less of a negative impact on communities if there are fewer of them.
d. two of the above
e. none of the above
A group ranked in a system of social stratification into which members are born for life
is called a
a. caste.
b. class.
c. rank society.
d. stratified society.
e. bounded society.
According to Harris (Life without Chiefs), headmen
a. are found primarily in hunting and gathering societies.
b. become a center for the redistribution of food.
c. lead by example without authority.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
The uterine family described by Wolf for China would include which one of the
following after she is married
a. a woman’s children.
b. a woman’s brothers.
c. a woman’s sisters.
d. a woman’s sisters-in-law.
e. a woman’s father.
According to Deutscher, the Australian language, Guugu Yumithiir,
a. contains words for only four different colors.
b. contains words for only egocentric directions.
c. expresses directions only in geographic terms.
d. grammatically assigns gender to inanimate objects.
e. has no verbs to indicate when an action will occur.
In his article “Forest Development the Indian Way,” Reed argues
a. against any use of the Amazon tropical forest by people.
b. for government control of forest development that eases the Indians into the modern
world economy gradually.
c. for a sustainable development program that permits the collection and sale of forest
products without destroying the original ecosystem.
d. for an Indian relocation plan.
e. for laws that require commercial lumber companies and ranchers to replant the forest
and introduce a 40-year cutting and clearing cycle.
According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the Women’s Prison
Healthcare Project she directed discovered that
a. women lived in overcrowded cells.
b. women were paid very little for the work they did in the prison.
c. women sometimes faked illness to get special attention.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to Omohundro (Career Advice), which of the following are skills that
anthropology BAs will find useful in the world of work?
a. using statistics
b. interviewing
c. analyzing craft techniques
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to Patten (Malawi Versus the World Bank) Malawians responded to lower
maize yields that occurred when fertilizer was no longer subsidized by
a. skipping meals.
b. mixing maize bran with maize flour.
c. selling their roofs and house timbers.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to Omohundro (Career Advice), it takes the average undergraduate BA
_______ year(s) after graduation to find employment.
a. two
b. three
c. two and one-half
d. one-half to one
e. one and one-half
English speakers do not use /ng/ (the final sound in going, for example) when they
speak. This behavior would best be classified as a
a. metaphorical rule.
b. framing rule.
c. sociolinguistic rule.
d. non linguistic rule.
e. phonological rule.
According to Cronk, which one of the following is a clear example of gift giving
designed to “flatten” someone else with generosity?
a. Richard Lee’s gift of a Christmas ox to the !Kung with whom he did fieldwork in the
Kalahari desert
b. “concessions” made by U.S. and Russian peace negotiators
c. “swapping” among African Americans living in a place called the flats
d. the Trobriand kula ring
e. the Kwakiutl potlatch
Gmelch concludes on the basis of his student’s negative experience in a Barbadian
village (Nice Girls Don”t Talk to Rastas), that
a. it is difficult for U.S. women to find acceptance in Barbadian communities because
people there think they are morally “loose.”
b. American students unconsciously look down on Barbadians and are unable to hide
their sense of superiority.
c. a great barrier to student research in places like Barbados is that local people view
students as tourists.
d. U.S. students assume that Barbadian communities are homogeneous and fail to
appreciate the social dynamics found in small face-to-face communities.
e. Barbadians are offended by the wealth displayed by American students and regularly
“test” them by making demands for loans or other forms for support.