The Bushmen use many natural minerals and materials for their rock art. Which of the
following is not a commonly used material?
a. Bicarbonate
b. Gypsum
c. Ferric oxide
d. Blood
e. Silica
The position that because cultures are unique, each one can be evaluated only according
to its own standards and values is called
a. ethnocentrism.
b. cultural relativism.
c. cultural materialism.
d. adaptation.
e. pluralism.
When over 200,000 people were injured or killed as a result of gas being released from
a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, the cause was attributed to a number of factors:
the company saving money by not installing safety devices, the political arrangements
that enable Union Carbide to build a plant in India, the people living in the vicinity of
the plant being too poor to live in safer locations, etc. Thus, the people were victims of
a. structural violence.
b. soft power.
c. apartheid.
d. multiculturalism.
e. xenophobia.
One of the most significant characteristics of the food-producing way of life was the
development of
a. permanent settlements.
b. mobile populations.
c. skillful hunters.
d. lower population.
e. increased egalitarianism.
Which of the following is not a Maori cultural concept?
a. waka
b. iwi
c. mauri
d. namus
e. tapu
In 2007, after many years of campaigning in the international media, political lobbying,
and diplomatic pressure, the United Nations General Assembly passed the
a. Declaration of the Independence of Indigenous Nations.
b. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
c. Constitution for the Relief of Structural Violence.
d. Bill of Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
e. Independence Treaty of Indigenous Nations and Their Ancestors.
Which of the following would be an acceptable research topic in the field of historical
linguistics?
a. Whether or not the speakers of Apache and Navajo once spoke a common language
b. Whether or not Apache and Navajo speakers use the same body language to signal
gender differences
c. Whether or not Apache and Navajo speakers organize their languages using the same
syntactical structures
d. All the features of a given language as it is spoken at a particular point in time
e. Frame substitution to investigate the syntax of a particular language
The vast collection of cross-indexed ethnographic and archaeological data catalogued
by cultural characteristics and geographic locations is called the
a. Hominid Relatives Area Files.
b. Human Relatives Area Files.
c. Human Relations Area Microfiche.
d. Human Relations Association Files.
e. Human Relations Area Files.
The influence of a person’s class status on what pronunciation he/she uses, a speaker’s
choice of more complicated vocabulary and grammar when he/she is speaking to a
professional audience, and the influence of language on culture are all concerns of
a. descriptive linguistics.
b. historical linguistics.
c. sociolinguistics.
d. linguistic nationalism.
e. displacement.
A society with extensive types of childcare, a desire to make the individual feel socially
attached and generally free of stranger anxiety, and with high levels of sharing and
social involvement would most likely have what type of training or children?
a. Interdependence
b. Independence
c. Separation
d. Modal
e. Self-awareness
Religion, magic, and witchcraft are all similar in which of the following ways?
a. They all disappear once modern education and scientific training expand
b. They all share the common goal of improving social relationships within a
community
c. They are all associated with morose nonconformists who try to destroy society
d. They provide explanation of events and are mechanisms of social control
e. They are all morally neutral
All of the following are associated with eunuchs except:
a. castration is a widespread cultural practice to transform sexual status.
b. there is evidence of castration in the archaeological record in Egypt.
c. castration was always carried out as a public ritual in societies where it had meaning.
d. in some societies eunuchs could rise to high status as priests and administrators.
e. eunuchs were appointed military commanders in the Chinese army.
Which of the following is the fundamental characteristic of the market in non-Western
societies?
a. It is located in a rural area close to where produce is grown
b. It is found only in towns where produce is grown, distributed, and consumed
c. It is an abstract concept, where goods are exchanged over the Internet
d. It is a traditional marketplace, where actual goods are exchanged
e. There is no concrete marketplace where actual goods are exchanged
A sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence is called a(n)
a. legend.
b. parable.
c. religious text.
d. ritual.
e. myth.
An individual’s personality is all of the following except:
a. a product of enculturation.
b. influenced by an individual’s genetic makeup.
c. a kind of cognitive map functioning throughout an individual’s lifetime.
d. an integrated, dynamic system of perceptual assemblages, which includes the self and
its behavioral environment, that develops over time.
e. is never part of the internalized awareness of the person.
Paralanguage includes not only the way that people say things but also a variety of
extralinguistic noises called
a. phonemes.
b. kinesics.
c. vocalizations.
d. substitution frames.
e. syntax.
As a result of _____ work, in 1981, the Apaches were able to move into houses that had
been designed with their participation, for their specific needs.
a. Walter Goldschmidt’s
b. George Esber’s
c. David Maybury-Lewis’s
d. Bronislaw Malinowski’s
e. Margaret Mead’s
When a man works hard in his garden in the Trobriand Islands to produce yams, he
does this to satisfy which of the following demands?
a. To have food for his household to eat
b. To gain prestige by giving yams away to his sister’s husbands
c. To prove to his wife that he can work as hard as she can
d. To give the yams to his wife so that she can trade them for goods that they don”t
produce themselves
e. To trade for fish
All of the following are types of descent except:
a. moiety.
b. phratry.
c. lineage.
d. clan.
e. institution.
Among species, which of the following is distinct to humans?
a. Biological adaptation
b. Cultural adaptation
c. Ability to make and use tools
d. Development of social groups
e. Migration
As represented by the barrel model of culture, culture is an integrated system that
responds to a combination of
a. structural integrity.
b. ideology and religion.
c. international factors.
d. ethical integrity.
e. internal factors.
What is xenophobia?
a. Fear of anything strange or foreign
b. Belief that all cultures are of value
c. Fear of change
d. Reluctance to live a multicultural society
e. Inability to learn a foreign language
Under cross-cousin marriage, the sister’s son is also the
a. brother’s daughter’s husband.
b. mother’s sister’s son.
c. husband’s cousin.
d. father’s brother’s aunt.
e. sister’s son’s son.
Which of the following research projects would not belong to the province of linguistic
anthropology?
a. Learning about a culture by finding out which objects or events are associated with a
large vocabulary
b. Reconstructing the evolution of the big toe to find out at what time humans began to
walk upright
c. Comparing languages to see which ones can be traced back to a single unifying
language
d. Describing how, in a particular language, sounds are combined to form words and
how words are combined to form sentences
e. Studying the development and use of profanity in middle-school conversation
Biomedicine is the predominant medical system found in
a. Hindu cultures.
b. Islamic cultures.
c. Christian cultures.
d. Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
e. Europe and the United States.
A totem is all of the following except:
a. a word that comes from the Ojibwa American Indian word which means “he is a
relative of mine.”
b. a symbol of animals, plants, natural forces, and objects.
c. usually associated with a clan’s concept of its mythical origins.
d. found in our own society in the names we give to baseball and football teams.
e. found in all societies that have lineages.
Living in a tropical environment where one learns to orient oneself through a vertical
landscape of tall trees and speckled light is part of
a. gender orientation.
b. spatial orientation.
c. object orientation.
d. normative orientation.
e. temporal orientation.
Every fall, a group of about 600 migrants travels to Maine to work on the apple harvest.
They are contacted by a labor recruiter in their home country and given temporary
foreign farm work visas. Often, they must change aspects of their physical appearance
to be seen as more “employable.” Where are they from?
a. Mexico
b. India
c. Bolivia
d. Jamaica
e. Australia
Which of the following statements best describes changes during the past five
centuries?
a. This period has been marked by the reduction of human diversity to a single species.
b. During this time, humans have first faced cultural change and diversity.
c. This has been a period of radical culture change.
d. Humans have migrated from African into Europe during this period.
e. Humans have evolved during this time into bipedal walkers.
One byproduct of colonial dealings with indigenous peoples has been the growth of
_____ and the use of anthropological techniques and knowledge for certain “practical”
ends.
a. applied anthropology
b. ethnography
c. ethnology
d. quantitative anthropology
e. qualitative anthropology
What is horticulture, and how it is different from agriculture?
Answer:Will vary
Identify the ways that each of the subfields can be applied.
Answer:Will vary
The current Code of Ethics for anthropology is devised and implemented by the
American Association of Practicing Anthropologists.
What did Malinowski mean by biological, instrumental, and integrative needs that must
be resolved by culture?
Answer:Will vary
What does the Chantek Project illustrate about language?
Answer:Will vary
The American Anthropological Association is considered a common-interest
association.
What aspects of American Indian culture diffused to Euro-American society? Use
maize as a primary example.
Answer:Will vary
Art is universal to human societies.
What is proxemics?
Answer:Will vary
What is adaptation?
Answer:Will vary
Physical anthropologists are only concerned with the past evolutionary development of
the human animal and the biological variations with the species that occurred in the
past.
What does it mean for a society to be called “egalitarian”?
Answer:Will vary
What are eliciting devices?
Answer:Will vary
Anthropological fieldwork is characteristic of all of the anthropological subdisciplines.
Discuss race as both a social and biological construct. How are these distinct, and how
do these distinct meanings change the way the concept of race is used?
Answer:Will vary
What is the relationship between overpopulation and poverty? Why should this be a
significant concern to all countries?
Answer:Will vary
Is English a tonal language? Describe why or why not.
Answer:Will vary
Treaties between two sovereign parties are known as bilateral treaties.