According to Guneratne and Bjork (Village Walks), Nepalese tourist companies
characterize the Tharu as primitive forest dwellers untouched by civilization.
By sustainable development, Reed means that commercial lumber companies and
ranchers should replant the tropical forest after they have cut down and permit exploited
areas to regenerate for approximately 40 years.
According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), Peace Corps volunteers tend to force
people like the Tswana to do what they, the volunteers, consider is needed.
According to Boxer (The Military Name Game), names for military operations have
little effect on the way the public perceives such actions.
According to Bourgois, the New York underground economy in which many Puerto
Rican men work largely consists of dirty sweatshop manufacturing jobs.
Omohundro (Career Advice) argues that it is difficult to translate anthropological skill
into terms that employers can understand, so anthropology students may have to invent
some experiences that will impress job interviewers.
In her article, “Run for the Wall,” Dubisch cites a definition of ritual that says rituals are
patterned, repetitive symbolic enactments of cultural beliefs or values.
According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), Peace Corps volunteers maintained an
aloof distance when they talked with Tswana farmers.
Mann (You@Work) notes that employers usually use the Internet on the first round of
hiring to rank applicants.
The minimal categories of speech sounds that serve to keep utterances apart are called
phonemes.
Attributes of infectious diseases include rapid exposure, an outcome marked by death or
a complete cure, and lasting antibodies among survivors.
Patten (Office Work and the Crack Alternative) notes that the World Bank and
IMF required Malawi to quit subsidizing fertilizer.
Ehrenreich and Hochschild (Global Women in the New Economy) argue that most
women who migrate from poor countries to rich ones can”t get work in their home
countries because they are so poorly educated.
Shandy and Moe (The Opt-Out Phenomenon) note that the term “glass ceiling” means
that a women has finally reached the highest position that can be attained in her place of
work.
A uterine family is partly composed of a woman and her children.
Refugees are individuals who emigrate from one country to another.
In this article on Bolivia, Weatherford shows how cocaine production has broken down
class distinctions in the countryside.
Even after her marriage, a woman maintains close ties with her parents and siblings,
according to Wolf in her article about the Chinese family.
Nelson (Eskimo Science) learned that bears are typically left handed (pawed).
According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), Tswana farmers speak about their
feelings with candor.
According to Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement), the UN looks at
three possible solutions to the refugee problem: voluntary repatriation to the country
of origin, integration into a country of asylum, or third country resettlement.
According to Bourgois (Office Work and the Crack Alternative), second generation
Puerto Rican men from New York’s Spanish Harlem often turned to selling crack
cocaine instead of taking jobs in offices because their
a. street culture made it degrading for them to take orders from female managers.
b. the way they looked and walked often frightened middle class Anglos on the job.
c. lack of education made it impossible for them to get any but the lowest ranking jobs.
d. None of the above
e. a, b, and c above.
According to Deutscher, Guugu Yumithiir indicated direction based on
a. egocentric criteria.
b. geographic criteria.
c. both egocentric and geographic criteria.
d. distance criteria.
e. perceived environmental features.
The cultural knowledge of the supernatural that people use to cope with the ultimate
problems of human existence is called
a. personified supernatural power.
b. mana.
c. taboo.
d. transcendental values.
e. religion.
The process of change due to culture contact is called
a. diffusion.
b. borrowing.
c. acculturation.
d. enculturation.
e. revitalization.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), in India leprosy is
a. easily treated.
b. highly contagious.
c. caused by a bacterium that kills the body’s cells in one’s hands and feet and other
extremities.
d. carried by mosquitoes.
e. none of the above
According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the purpose of public interest
ethnography is to
a. study the motivations of policy makers.
b. assess the costs associated with a policy.
c. assess a policy from the perspective of those affected by it.
d. discover inconsistencies in a policy.
e. none of the above
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), the Ganges river water
a. ritual pollutes the bodies of individuals who bathe in it.
b. is thought to absorb one’s troubles and sins.
c. carries the bacteria that causes leprosy.
d. cures leprosy.
e. to some extent makes the ulcers that accompany leprosy heal.
The economic incorporation of different parts of the world into a system based on
capitalism, not politics defines
a. world system.
b. cultural diffusion.
c. cultural hybridization.
d. multiculturalism.
e. transnationalism.
If a person believes that some rocks lying in a yam field contribute to the rapid growth
of the plants, we might suspect the presence of a belief in mana.
The provision of goods and services to meet biological and social wants is called
a. production.
b. the economic system.
c. market exchange.
d. division of labor.
e. the unit of production.
According to Diamond (Domestication and the Evolution of Disease), the pulses
(periods of infection in a population followed by many disease-free years) that are
characteristic of epidemic diseases are primarily caused by the fact that
a. the diseases become attenuated because if they kill their hosts they kill themselves.
b. disease organisms “grow tired” much as human cells do as a person ages, and
eventually die off.
c. the entire human population dies so the disease can”t find any more victims.
d. human medical (cultural) responses such as the development of antibiotics can stop
infection for long periods of time.
e. survivors have immunity for life so new epidemics can only start with the birth and
accumulation of new society members who lack immunity.
Which of the following authors is an extreme diffusionist?
a. Erik von Dniken
b. W. Lloyd Warner
c. Emile Durkheim
d. Sigmund Freud
e. Marvin Harris
According to Patten (Malawi Versus the World Bank), officials of the World Bank
thought that ___________ was the reason why Malawi was experience a balance of
payments problem in the 1980s.
a. government corruption
b. lack of a manufacturing sector in the economy
c. fertilizer subsidies
d. welfare
e. military expenditures
Taxes would best be classified as a form of
a. barter.
b. allocation of resources.
c. market exchange.
d. reciprocal exchange.
e. redistributive exchange.
An older married couple, together with their married sons, their daughters-in-law, and
their grandchildren, all living in a single household, is a classic example of
a. a nuclear family.
b. an extended family.
c. a lineage.
d. a clan.
e. a ramage.
In his article, Lee claims that when he studied them in the 1960s, !Kung
a. ate all of the edible plants and animals found in their environment.
b. lived in camps each of which had a defended territory.
c. enjoyed a large amount of leisure time.
d. had to move every few days in search of scarce food stuffs.
e. showed clear signs of malnutrition.
According to Shandy and Moe (The Opt-Out Phenomenon), factors that pull women to
resign from work and return to home full time include
a. being with their children.
b. lower stress.
c. sense of responsibility.
d. nostalgia.
e. all of the above
According to McCurdy (Using Anthropology), over half the PhDs in anthropology each
year find employment outside of academia.
Ehrenreich and Hochschild (Global Women in the New Economy) report that one of the
greatest problems faced by women who migrate from Third World countries for work in
the First World is
a. finding enough money to travel to jobs outside their home country.
b. lack of sufficient education to hold jobs in the First World.
c. resentment of the kinds of jobs they are forced to work at in the First World.
d. long separation from their children and family members.
e. all of the above
According to Guneratne and Bjork (Village Walks), the Tharu village of Pipariya is
located adjacent to
a. the Chitwan national forest.
b. the Himalayan mountains.
c. the Tarai National Forest.
d. Katmandu.
e. the border with India.
According to Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), women’s conversation
often works at the appearance of equality. Men’s conversation, on the other hand, is
often directed at
a. an attempt to put others in a one-down position by bragging or inferring superior
knowledge.
b. avoiding the one-down position by acting as if they don”t know what the other
person means.
c. avoiding the one-down position by ignoring other people.
d. an attempt to put others in a one-down position by faking interest in the conversation.
e. avoiding the one-down position by using oppositions such as banter, joking, teasing,
and playful putdowns.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), a woman named Sita
a. was exiled to an ashram near Varanasi after being cured of leprosy.
b. became a beggar depending on alms for her survival because she was a leper.
c. managed to successfully hide her condition from her husband while taking drugs
designed to cure her leprosy.
d. asked Barrett to cut into the lesions caused by leprosy to make them look worse.
e. was sent to an ashram near Varanasi by her mother- and father-in-law.
Shandy and Moe (The Opt-Out Phenomenon) claim that it is mostly __________ who
are most likely to leave the work force for life at home.
a. single mothers
b. women in their twenties and thirties
c. college educated and professional women
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to Bourgois (Office Work and the Crack Alternative), ______________ was
a key value for men in the workplace in Puerto Rico
a. loyalty to the boss
b. education
c. the ability to concentrate
d. being respected
e. physical strength
A magical practice in baseball that is culturally learned rather than personal, is
a. the wearing of the lucky number, 77.
b. wearing a pair of shoes that bring luck.
c. tugging the hat before each pitch.
d. placing a penny for each win in one’s athletic supporter cup.
e. mentioning a no-hitter while the game is in progress.
According to Boxer (The Military Name Game), military operations names such as
Roundup, Killer, Ripper, Courageous, Audacious and Dauntless were used by
__________ during ________________.
a. General Macarthur, the Korean War
b. Winston Churchill, World War II
c. General Abrams, the Vietnam War
d. President Reagan, the invasion of Granada
e. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the war with Iraq
According to McCurdy, in India work in the market economy can weaken kinship
systems by
a. costing families too much money.
b. reducing the economic dependence of people on their families and kin groups.
c. reducing the time people have to devote to family and kin.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
Class is to caste as
a. western is to non-western.
b. equality is to rank.
c. economics is to prestige.
d. equality is to social stratification.
e. open is to closed.
According to Goldstein, it is difficult for a male Tibetan to start his own farm because
a. the government restricts access to new land.
b. he must get permission from his lineage head, something that is hard to do.
c. there is no more land to reclaim in the mountains.
d. it is difficult to terrace new land and keep animals simultaneously without help.
e. all of the above
If a friend were to say, “He’s the president of the college,” the term “president” would
refer to a
a. status.
b. role.
c. social situation.
d. social relationship.
e. social interaction.
The way the !Kung treated Richard Lee’s gift of a Christmas ox reveals their value on
a. individualism.
b. male dominance.
c. family solidarity.
d. identification with nature.
e. equality.
When Sterk (Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS) first tried to make contact
with
prostitutes on the street, they
a. disappeared, walking to other locations.
b. became angry and tried to drive her away with threats.
c. largely ignored her.
d. called their pimps on cell phones causing their pimps to threaten her.
e. welcomed her warmly because she was interested in their lives.
The categories and rules for combining vocal symbols are called
a. phonemes.
b. grammar.
c. phonology.
d. sociolinguistic rules.
e. speech.