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The Tiv felt that Laertes bewitched his sister, Ophelia, so that he could sell her body to
raise money to repay gambling debts.
Slash-and-burn agriculture is a kind of horticulture.
A Chinese woman enters her husband's house as a powerless stranger, but she returns to
her own home for visits during the first two or three years to reduce the tension.
Religion helps people cope with ultimate problems of their existence such as the
meaning of life, death, evil, and transcendent values.
Goldstein argues that Tibetan polyandry functions to reduce the birth rate.
When the members of a society permit two people to settle a dispute by fighting each
other, we call their action self-redress and classify it as part of the legal system.
According to Ehrenreich and Hochschild in their selection, "Global Women in the New
Economy," millions of women now migrate from poor countries to work in rich ones.
Ehrenreich and Hochschild (Global Women in the New Economy) note that many
women from wealthy societies have succeeded in the "tough" male world but have
turned over the care of their children, elderly parents, and homes to women from the
Third World.
According to Weatherford (The Founding Indian Fathers), the design of the U.S.
Capitol and the murals in its rotunda send the message that U.S. Constitution is derived
from European precedents, and that the Americans gave civilization to the Indians.
The rules for action associated with statuses are called "roles."
Bohannan finds that with minor alterations in terminology, the English and the Tiv can
understand Shakespeare's Hamlet in the same way.
According to Harris (Life without Chiefs), social stratification gained momentum
wherever extra food produced by the "inspired diligence of redistributors" could be
stored in anticipation of redistributions.
Indians of the Americas failed to evolve crowd diseases because they had few
domesticated animals and lacked significant trade between cities.
Nelson (Eskimo Science) notes that the environmental knowledge of Koyukon Indians
and the Inupiaq cannot rival information gained by more systematic, Western scientific
observation and testing.
According to Shandy and Moe (The Opt-Out Phenomenon) the "100-hour couple"
phenomenon is a factor that "pushes" women to leave the workforce.
According to Harris (Life without Chiefs), big men amassed more wealth than common
people due to their position as redistributors.
According to Fish (Mixed Blood), avocados are classified by Brazilians as a fruit and
by North Americans as a vegetable.
According to Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement), the first anthropologist
to conduct and publish extensive ethnography about the Nuer was Sir E. E.
Evans-Pritchard
Deutscher (You Are What You Speak) argues that language neither organizes a prison
house nor is uninvolved in how we think.
Weatherford argues that the world market for cocaine has had just as damaging an
effect on the Bolivian economy as it has on the users it supplies.
Ehrenreich and Hochschild (Global Women in the New Economy) note that there are
four major flows of migrant women, one from South East Asia to the Middle and Far
East, a second from East Europe to Western Europe, a third from South and South and
Central America to North America, and a fourth from Africa to Europe.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), medical anthropologists treat disease
and illness as related but different concepts.
The economic system defines the provision of goods and services to meet human
biological and social wants.
According to Deutscher (You Are What You Speak), speakers of German, French, and
other languages that linguistically assign gender to objects are so used to the convention
that they don"t think of things in gendered terms.
Mann (You@Work) argues that it is important to use face-to-face contact with
employers because it is impossible to control your personal identity on the Internet.
According to Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement), Nuer refugees have
been sent to the United States by Christian missionaries who live in the southern Sudan.
Bestor (How Sushi Went Global) argues that the Japanese control the world price for
bluefin tuna because the government sets prices paid for imported fish, which, in turn,
affects the economy of U.S. fishing villages.
If a person uses a powerful spell to hurt another individual, anthropologists would label
him or her a witch.
An army private must salute when he approaches an officer and hold the salute until
after the officer has returned the greeting. This is an illustration of a status.
According to Fish, North Americans fail in their attempt to classify people into races
because they ignore important physical differences such as body shape (rounded and
lanky for example).
According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), public interest ethnography
involves fieldwork among policy makers.
According to Boxer (The Military Name Game), despite every effort to make them
benign, most recent attempts at naming military operations manage to offend someone.
The physical environment is one area of human experience that people everywhere
categorize in the same way.
Cronk (Reciprocity and the Power of Giving) cites Hagstrom's argument that citations
of other people's work in academic articles as well as the articles themselves, are a form
of gift.
Four of the following statements about the !Kung as Lee describes their lives in 1963
are true. Which one is not?
a. They normally live in a "core area" about 6 miles in circumference.
b. The proportion of old people to the rest of the population is about the same as that of
modern industrial society.
c. Boys and girls usually assume food collecting activities on a regular basis at puberty.
d. They have much more leisure time than Americans.
e. none of the above
According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), the ethnographic project she
directed was asked by the state to assess
a. how women access health care in prison.
b. the effects of overcrowding.
c. whether the position of MTA should be abolished.
d. how much female inmates should be paid for their work.
e. whether inmates receive enough exercise.
According to McCurdy (Family and Kinship in Village India), the term feminal kin
refers in part to when it is used to described kin relationships in Ratakote.
a. the women belonging to one's own patriclan (arak)
b. the women belonging to one's mother's patriclan (arak)
c. the husbands and the relatives of women who belong to one's own lineage
d. the women who make up one's matriclan
e. men who take on the role of women
The world that people can experience with their senses is called
a. ecology.
b. cultural ecology.
c. physical environment.
d. cultural environment.
e. none of the above
Sterk (Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS) makes several observations about
gatekeepers. Which one of the following is not one of her observations? Gatekeepers
a. are important as one gets started in fieldwork.
b. may become less important to a study as time goes on.
c. make the best key informants.
d. may give you access to only part of a cultural scene.
e. may not be well connected after all.
A bilateral kinship group that is most like the lineage is called a
a. family.
b. clan.
c. phratry.
d. dormitory floor.
e. ramage.
According and Boxer (The Military Name Game), the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created
a ______________nicknamed _____________ to generate names for military
operations.
a. military command committee, "COMAT"
b. computer program, "NICKA"
c. three-service bureau, "BOCAB"
d. military swat team, "SWATNOM"
e. none of the above
The case of the Gypsy defendant described by Sutherland represents a good illustration
of what happens when
a. a foreign people takes advantage of a lenient judicial system.
b. police exceed the law in their eagerness to fight crime.
c. greedy lawyers misrepresent their non-American clients.
d. anthropological testimony is misused in court.
e. a normal practice for one group is a crime for another.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), leprosy is caused by
a. a parasite carried in Ganges river water.
b. a parasite carried by mosquitoes.
c. a bacterium, but the way it is transmitted to an individual is not yet understood.
d. a bacterium found in Ganges river water.
e. a bacterium that is transmitted to people by contact with human feces.
McCurdy (Family and Kinship in Village India) argues that arranged marriage functions
to
a. cement relationships within Bhil families and patrilineages.
b. create alliances between Bhil families and patrilineages.
c. bring wealth to the groom's family because of the dowry they receive.
d. prevent the possibility of divorce in Bhil society.
e. insure a happier marriage for Bhil brides and grooms.
Weatherford (The Founding Indian Fathers) points out that western United States
spawned most of the post eighteenth century democratic and egalitarian reforms such as
a. electing the first woman to Congress before women had the vote.
b. the dropping of property and religious requirements for voters.
c. the public election of senators in place of selection by state legislatures.
d. the use of primary elections and electoral recalls of unpopular officials.
e. all of the above.
According to Omohundro (Career Advice) anthropology BAs can speed up the process
of finding a job after graduation by
a. taking remedial computer courses following graduation.
b. telling prospective employers the kinds of anthropological experiences they have
had.
c. learning to identify their anthropological skills, the skills employers need, and the
rsum language necessary to communicate the skills to employers.
d. learning some of the basic ways to present themselves at interviews, such as how to
dress, how to sit, how to talk, and how to show interest.
e. learning to be more humble and less self aggrandizing.
A dispute that is below the level of the legal process is a(n)
a. legal dispute.
b. extra legal dispute.
c. infralegal dispute.
d. feud.
e. war.
Why does Bestor (How Sushi Went Global) refer to bluefin tuna as "stateless fish?"
a. Bluefin tuna swim so fast and migrate so far they may not remain in any nation's
waters for long.
b. ICCAT (the International Commission for the Conservation of Tunas), made up of 28
countries, has declared that the fish should receive "stateless" legal status.
c. No one country has been willing to take responsibility for conserving bluefin tuna.
d. Scientists have not been able to determine what state of mind the tuna are in.
e. Bluefin tuna form part of sushi in every country of the world.
The system of cultural knowledge used to generate and interpret speech is called
a. communication.
b. language.
c. semantics.
d. phonology.
e. grammar.
According to Boxer (The Military Name Game), the first name given to U.S. operations
in Afghanistan was
a. Desert Storm.
b. Mountain Shield.
c. Just Cause.
d. Enduring Freedom.
e. Infinite Justice.
According to Ehrenreich and Hochschild (Global Women in the New Economy), a Sri
Lankan woman named Josephine Perera has managed to
a. work for ten years in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Greece.
b. work as a nanny to a two-year-old in Greece.
c. amply support her three children who still live in Sri Lanka.
d. return home once a year bearing gifts such as pots and pans.
e. all of the above
According to Weatherford (The Founding Indian Fathers), the nations that made up the
League of the Iroquois were led by
a. councils consisting of elected sachems.
b. chiefs.
c. priests.
d. councils consisting of hereditary heads of matriclans.
e. war chiefs.
Sutherland reports that for Gypsies, going to jail
a. often provides needed time to recover from alcoholism.
b. helps them learn English and skills that facilitate getting real jobs in American
society.
c. is welcomed because they finally get enough to eat there.
d. is an especially cruel punishment because it separates them from their kin.
e. is hard on them because they are targeted by other inmates as easy prey.
According to Fish (Mixed Blood), his daughter can change her race by flying from New
York to Brazil. She can do this because
a. Brazilians don"t know what her North American racial classification is.
b. Brazilians have a different set of racial categories than do North Americans.
c. she can claim to be any race she wants because there are no such things as biological
races.
d. airplanes provide a computer program that permits people to change their racial
designation.
e. although she is classed as white in the U.S., she can become loura, preta, or tipo in
Brazil.
According to Patten (Malawi Versus the World Bank), the effect of the World Bank
loans on the people of Malawi was
a. to provide them with better health care.
b. stimulate the growth of tourism and local manufacturing.
c raise agricultural production.
d. lower the amount of maize produced.
e. increase the size of bride prices at weddings.
Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), notes that of all the examples of
conversational-style differences between men and women that lead to troublesome
outcomes, has attracted the most attention of her readers.
a. men's tendency to interrupt women in normal conversation
b. women's tendency to criticize men when they talk with other women
c. women's tendency to be indirect when they talk with men
d. men's tendency to avoid asking directions of other people
e. men's tendency to act as if they know the answer to a question when they actually
don"t
According to Guneratne and Bjork (Village Walks), which Nepalese ethnic group were
tour guides most likely to come from?
a. Brahmin
b. Bhangi
c. Chhetri
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
In her article (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), Tannen argues that in the
workplace
a. men often refrain from asking for directions while women often seek to create the
appearance of equality in a conversation.
b. men believe that women are too forward and direct when they talk.
c. gender does not affect talking styles.
d. women seek a one up position in conversation whereas men diffuse speech
domination by joking about it.
e. men are more likely than women to ask for directions.
According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), the garment that
entirely encloses a woman from head to toe is called a
a. burqa.
b. hadash.
c. jihad.
d. fromage.
e. none of the above
McCurdy claims that in many companies, newly installed managers tend to
a. listen to their employees' suggestions.
b. ask employees to teach them the new job.
c. leave their employees alone.
d. impose a new agenda on their employees.
e. none of the above
According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), in order to receive medical
treatment, female inmates in the California prison system had to
a. pay a $5 copay.
b. receive a ducat.
c. see a nurse practitioner first.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, c above
According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), Laura Bush
gave a speech in which she
a. praised Afghan women for their resistance to the Taliban.
b. recognized the place of Afghan women as the major bread winners in Afghanistan.
c. used the supposed plight of Afghan women as a reason to invade Afghanistan.
d. criticized Afghan women for encouraging Taliban resistance to the American
presence.
e. none of the above
The belief and feeling that one's own culture is best is called
a. culture shock.
b. cultural relativism.
c. naive realism.
d. detached observation.
e. ethnocentrism.
The study of how people use their culture to adapt to particular environments is called
a. ecology.
b. cultural ecology.
c. environmentalism.
d. environmental determinism.
e. physical ecology.
According to Deutscher, the problem with Whorf's hypothesis about language and
thought was that it
a. was too rigid.
b. applied only to American Indian languages.
c. ignored the importance of grammar.
d. ignored the social context within which languages are framed.
e. none of the above
According to Patten (Malawi Versus the World Bank), the Washington Consensus,
required countries that borrowed money from the World Bank and IMF to
a. cut spending on health.
b. privatize state-owned enterprises.
c. open their economies to foreign investment and competition.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to Weatherford, which one of the following is an effect of the cocaine trade
on the Bolivian economy?
a. It threatens to displace lowland hunter-gatherers
b. It contributes to national inflation
c. It has increased the rural production of chica
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
If a society uses irrigation, its food-getting (subsistence) system would best be
classified as
a. agriculture.
b. horticulture.
c. pastoral.
d. hunting and gathering.
e. hydraulic.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), because it is treatable, leprosy is no
longer stigmatized in India.
