Pistococas are people who tread on a mixture of kerosene and coca leaves.
According to Sutherland (The Case of the Gypsy Offender), Gypsies frequently take
one another’s social security numbers in order to hide their identity.
Innovation is the recombination of concepts, which are previously known, to form
something qualitatively new.
A good example of reciprocal exchange in American society is gift giving at birthdays.
Shandy and Moe (The Opt-Out Phenomenon) that for a variety of reasons, “baby
boomers,” women in the forties and fifties, are leaving work for home
According to Diamond, infectious diseases appeared when humans contacted remote
areas of the world where only animals harbored the troublesome microbes.
According to Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?), the Taliban
interpreted the wearing of burqas by women as a religious necessity.
Tannen, in her selection (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job) claims that women’s
speaking styles, based on a need to create the appearance of equality, are a better form
of communication in the work place than men’s more direct speaking styles.
The Tiv lack a concept for what Europeans call a ghost.
People can communicate using nonlinguistic symbols.
In “Nice Girls Don”t Talk to Rastas,” Gmelch concludes that U.S. middle class students
don”t realize that face-to-face communities like the ones where his students have lived
in Barbados are homogeneous.
According to Mann (You@Work), today’s employers discourage “job hopping” and
value employee loyalty.
According to the Freeds (Taraka’s Ghost), women are most likely to be possessed by
ghosts when they are first married and separated from their family of birth.
According to Guneratne and Bjork (Village Walks), although some tourists intruded
into Tharu houses in Pipariya, guides were careful to warn them against doing so.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), Leprosy is a highly contagious but
easily treatable disease.
The term “supernatural” labels people’s irrational beliefs about power in inanimate
objects.
According to Scheper-Hughes (Mother’s Love: Death without Weeping), poor women
in northeast Brazil will sacrifice in every way possible to keep their children alive.
Boxer (The Military Name Game) shows how a modern computer program entitled
“Code Word, Nickname, and Exercise Term System,” or NICKA for short, has solved
most of the problems encountered by the Pentagon as it generates code names for
military operations.
Refugees are people who flee their country of origin because they share a well
founded fear of persecution.
According to Dubisch (Run for the Wall), pilgrimages are religious rituals that involve
journeys to sacred places.
The Tiv felt it was a good omen for Hamlet’s father’s ghost to return and talk with
Hamlet.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), social stigma can influence the clinical
course of a disease.
Action anthropology requires that the group that is to change possesses some legitimate
process for making decisions.
According to Harris (Life without Chiefs), The Cherokee living in what is now the state
of Tennessee had a chiefdom marked by a paramount chief and subordinate chiefs. Each
Cherokee family had a corn crib, called “the chief’s granary,” in its fields where the
grain was stored for the chief to redistribute.
In her article, “Run for the Wall,” Dubisch notes that the term “liminality” defines an
emotional state that is sparked by ritual ceremony.
According to Weatherford (The Founding Indian Fathers), proceedings of the League of
the Iroquois differed from those found in the U.S. Congress in that Indians did not
allow members of the League to caucus.
Weatherford (The Founding Indian Fathers) notes that the League of the Iroquois
included a government with an elected chief, and delegates, called sachems, from five
different tribes.
Harris (Life without Chiefs) notes that big men, because of their position as
redistributors, tend to amass more wealth and live in more comfort than other people in
their societies.
Tacit culture refers to cultural knowledge that informants consciously hide from the
ethnographer.
In her article, “Mother’s Love: Death without Weeping,” Scheper-Hughes argues that
mothers in the shantytown of Alto do Cruzeiro learn to accept the death of a child
without grieving.
According to Guneratne and Bjork (The Village Walk), they (the authors)
a. ended up giving lectures about Tharu culture to tourists.
b. (especially Kate) were, themselves, a tourist attraction.
c. tried to change the way the Tharu were characterized by tour guides and tourist
companies.
d. helped Tharu villagers avoid tourists whenever possible.
e. None of the above
According to Mann (You@Work), the status of _________ is a good example of an
ascribed status.
a. daughter
b. friend
c. employer
d. doctor
e. caretaker
According to Lee and Biesele, in order to survive today, the Ju/”Hoansi Kung will have
to
a. find new sources of wild foods.
b. specialize in the manufacture of trade goods for tourists.
c. take jobs in nearby cities in order to earn cash.
d. form borehole syndicates and stake out ranches to protect their foraging areas.
e. open reproductions of traditional foraging camps in order to attract tourists.
According to Gmelch (Nice Girls Don”t Talk to Rastas), the first thing he did after his
student, Johanna, told him she was being shunned by the Barbadian villagers where she
was doing her research was
a. find and talk to the Rastafarians she had been seen with.
b. meet with local elders to discover their views on the problem.
c. warn Johanna that her behavior could jeopardize the whole study abroad program in
Barbados
d. explain to her homestay mother that Johanna meant no harm.
e. pull Johanna out of the village so she could work in a more receptive community.
Gift giving among family members at Christmas is an example of
a. allocation of resources.
b. market exchange.
c. reciprocal exchange.
d. redistributive exchange.
e. barter.
When they do ethnographic fieldwork, anthropologists interview
a. respondents.
b. subjects.
c. informants.
d. participants.
e. objects.
According to McCurdy, an anthropologist was hired to find out why customers of a
utility company failed to reduce energy consumption despite their claims that they were
trying to conserve. He discovered that
a. customers were lying.
b. thermostats were faulty.
c. meters were faulty.
d. house insulation was usually insufficient.
e. fathers turned down thermostats, other family members turned them up.
Shandy and Moe (The Opt-Out Phenomenon) describe research on women’s power
conducted by Ernestine Friedl. They note that Friedl found that ________ was a key to
power and equality for women in hunter/gatherer societies.
a. the volume of vegetable matter women can collect
b. the (high) number of children women bear
c. women’s production and control and publicly shared food and goods
d. women’s control over the political process
e. women’s ability to endure hardship
According to Guneratne and Bjork (Village Walks), an angry Tharu household head
once
a. struck a rude tourist with a stick.
b. berated a tourist for smoking marijuana in his compound.
c. threatened a tour guide with a stick for invading his kitchen.
d. herded his wife and children into a back room to avoid contact with tourists.
e. blocked a tourist-laden ox cart from entering Pipariya.
A person one is related to by marriage is called a(n) relative.
a. affinal
b. exogamous
c. consanguine
d. endogamous
e. polygamous
According to Ehrenreich and Hochschild in their article (Global Women in the New
Economy) women who migrate for work in other countries are
a. better educated than most women in their home countries.
b. impressed by the amount of money they can make abroad that they can send home.
c. often encouraged by their home governments to seek work abroad.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to Scheper-Hughes, doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata
often
a. fail to recognize malnutrition as the primary cause of illness among poor babies.
b. refuse to examine poor babies.
c. prescribe drugs that their mothers cannot afford to buy for their sick babies.
d. hospitalize poor sick babies because the infants’ mothers can”t care for them.
e. claim poor mothers are killing their babies through neglect.
According to Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement), transnationalism is defined
as
a. the nationalistic fervor of one people that causes them to go to war with another.
b. the shifting of national loyalties from one nation state to another.
c. another word for global markets.
d. the cross-cutting ties that span the borders of nation-states.
e. a political movement in the southern Sudan.
According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), which one of the following is not a
way Peace Corps volunteers see themselves?
a. One should respect Tswana for their knowledge of the environment.
b. They are experts, there to teach the less fortunate.
c. They are making a sacrifice to serve others.
d. The Tswana have asked them to come to Botswana.
e. They are expected to impart Western ideas.
McCurdy (Using Anthropology) argues that is an important skill that people who study
anthropology can take into daily life.
a. ethnography
b. knowledge of particular cultures
c. the ability to conduct survey research
d. knowledge of cross-cultural economics
e. ethnology
An important point stressed by Lee (The Hunters: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari)
about the Ju/”Hoansi !Kung he studied in 1963 was that
a. both adults and children had to work every day to insure a sufficient food supply.
b. the !Kung had to use virtually all of the edible plants and animals in their
environment in order to survive in the desert.
c. life in the state of nature was not necessarily nasty, brutish, and short.
d. meat provided more calories in the !Kung diet than other foods.
e. none of the above
Tannen (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job), tells the story of how Amy, a
manager, tried to tell her employee, Donald, how to change an unsatisfactory report.
Her approach led to misunderstanding because
a. she was too direct.
b. Donald would not ask for help.
c. she praised the good parts of the report before suggesting changes.
d. she put Donald in a one-down position by demonstrating her superior knowledge.
e. Donald took her comments as a personal criticism.
According to Diamond (Domestication and the Evolution of Disease), the attributes of
epidemic diseases include
a. steady continual infection of small populations.
b. steady continual infections of large compact populations.
c. the production of survivors who have long-lasting antibodies.
d. the infection of a large number of people with slow-acting, lingering symptoms.
e. none of the above
According to Omohundro (Career Advice), the process of connecting one’s
anthropological skills with skills employers are looking for is called
a. indexicality.
b. anthro-shock.
c. trans-cultural self-presentation.
d. ethnographic translation.
e. network participatory presentation.
Which one of the following is not true about Tibetan polyandry?
a. Polyandry reduces sexual competition among brothers.
b. Polyandry lowers the birth rate.
c. Polyandry enables wealthier farmers to maintain their higher standard of living.
d. Polyandry is often preferred by Tibetans.
e. Polyandry produces a large number of unmarried women.
According to Miner (Body Ritual among the Nacirema), Naciremans often undergo
_________ procedures in order to care for their bodies.
a. month-long
b. painful
c. ineffective
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
Sutherland (The Case of the Gypsy Offender) describes a case in which a young Gypsy
man was falsely accused of fraud by police in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor is known for his early definition of
a. ethnography.
b. culture.
c. naive realism.
d. culture shock.
e. detached observation.
According to Lee, when a !Kung hunter kills a large animal, he is likely to tell others
a. “I have killed a large giraffe.”
b. “I have killed a big one in the bush.”
c. “I am no good for hunting. I just saw a little tiny one.”
d. “A giraffe happened to step in front of my flying arrow.”
e. “Come help me carry. There is much heavy meat.”
Nelson (Eskimo Science) reports that Koyukon hunters were able discover the den of a
hibernating bear by
a. spotting its close proximity to a seal blow hole.
b. spotting traces of its fur on nearby tree trunks.
c. noticing an absences of grass, and indentations in the snow indicating footprints in
the moss below.
d. listening carefully for its slow measured breathing.
e. noticing that other animals avoided the area as indicated by a lack of their tracks in
the snow.
The view that all people see and understand the world in the same way is called
a. naive realism.
b. culture shock.
c. ethnocentrism.
d. arbitrariness.
e. detached observation.
According to Diamond, active diseases are those which
a. cause their hosts to spread them through such means as open sores and coughs.
b. diseases whose presence can actually be seen by looking for symptoms.
c. diseases that kill their hosts as opposed to passive diseases that may linger on for
years.
d. diseases that destroy the cells of hosts rather than simply inhabiting them.
e. diseases that reproduce in hosts rather than lying dormant in them.
According to Goldstein, Tibetan polyandry
a. requires a group of brothers to marry one woman.
b. is caused by high rates of female infanticide, creating a shortage of women.
c. is a response to a shortage of arable land.
d. two of the above.
c. a, b, and c above.
Miner (Body Ritual among the Nacirema) notes that
a. wealthier households often line the shrines in their houses with stone.
b. house shrines are equipped with fonts.
c. latipso ceremonies are so harsh that many people do not survive them.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
As a child, a Chinese woman’s most important family ties are with her
a. father.
b. father’s brothers.
c. father’s mother.
d. mother and siblings.
e. siblings alone.
are unilineal descent groups composed of lineages. Their members recognize descent
from a common ancestor, but cannot usually trace their actual genealogical connections.
a. Ramages
b. Kindreds
c . Clans
d. Phratries
e. Families