According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), Peace Corps volunteers feel they are
making a sacrifice to serve other, less fortunate people, and that they are the experts in
relations with local people.
Acculturation refers to the process of learning one’s culture.
Market exchange is associated with many larger societies where people must be able to
procure a wide variety of goods and services from strangers.
One effect that cocaine production has had on villages like Pocona is to increase
demand for agricultural produce to feed workers, thus causing shortages back home.
When Gmelch learned about the difficulties his study abroad student was having in her
homestay village, he read her field notes and discovered that she had been talking to
and accompanying a Rastafarian named Joseph.
According to Patten (Malawi Versus the World Bank), The World Bank and IMF sought
to loan Malawi money in the 1980s until recently because the people there were no
longer able to meet their need their daily need for food.
According to Lee, in 1963 the !Kung have more leisure time than average Americans.
Things other than vocal sounds that can stand for other things are part of language.
When people buy and sell goods and services on the basis of price, supply, and demand,
we call the process redistributive exchange.
According to Weatherford (The Founding Indian Fathers), the federal structure of the
U.S. government closely resembles the design of the League of the Iroquois.
According to Goldstein, Tibetan polyandry is a response to a shortage of arable land.
According to the Freeds (Taraka’s Ghost), Sita’s father and husband were embarrassed
by her ghost possession and usually kept her secluded during her seizures.
According to McCurdy, ethnographers work largely by administering and analyzing
questionnaires.
Social acceptance of an innovation involves three steps: identification, analysis, and
substitution.
According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), a Latina inmate named
Nicole was subdued, stripped naked, and incarcerated separately when she experienced
complications related to a medication she was taking.
In his article, Gmelch argues that the U.S. students often work on the idea of personal
autonomy, meaning that if they see what they believe is truth they can act without
concern for what others think.
Deutscher (You Are What You Speak) although Guugu Yimithirr speakers use a
geographic approach when they talk about directions, such speech does not affect their
ability to accurately sense their bearings.
According to Sterk in her article, “Prostitution in the Era of AIDS,” virtually all the
prostitutes she interviewed or observed were hooked on drugs.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), lepers travel to Varanasi because they
believe the Ganges will cure their condition.
According to Bourgois (Office Work and the Crack Alternative), second generation
Puerto Rican residents living in Spanish Harlem began to sell crack cocaine because
they could find no other work in New York City.
Sterk (Prostitution in the Era of AIDS) found it was essential to interview prostitutes in
the presence of their pimps and other prostitutes in order to gain trust.
In his article “Career Advice for Anthropology Undergraduates,” Omonundro labels the
process of translating his students’ anthropology skills into language employers can
understand as “trans-cultural self-presentation.”
Herbert Blumer developed a theory of symbolic interaction.
According to the Freeds (Taraka’s Ghost), the Ghosts of unfortunate male lovers often
possess North Indian women.
Diamond classifies diseases into active and passive types on the basis of whether or not
the disease organisms cause the host to provide a way to spread the microbes to others.
According to Scheper-Hughes, the doctors and clergy of the Brazilian city of Bom Jesus
de Mata work hard to save the lives of poor children born in the shanty town of Alto do
Cruzeiro but fail because of the indifference of the infants’ mothers.
One reason the study of !Kung subsistence patterns is so important is the rarity of the
case; the !Kung had had no contact with other people until the study began in 1963.
The Guaran, according to Reed, have exploited the forest commercially as well as for
subsistence for nearly 500 years.
According to Stryker (Ethnography in the Public Interest), public interest ethnography
is aimed at redistribution of wealth in the United State.
Abu-Lughod (Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?) reports that after 20 years of
fieldwork in Egypt, she never once met a woman who envied her Western counterparts.
According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), Peace Corps volunteers conceive of
time as lineal while Tswana associate it with events.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), in India the stigma felt by lepers is
unrelated to the actual course of the disease.
According to Barrett (Leprosy on the Ganges), a woman named Sita contracted leprosy
at the age of 14, then started but later discontinued treatment in order to hide her disease
from her husband and relatives when she was married.
Omohundro (Career Advice) points out that many professors hesitate to give their
students career advice because they don”t believe they know enough about careers,
because people change careers often these days, and because many of them have a
prejudice against vocationalism.
According to Patten (Malawi Versus the World Bank), the effect of the World Bank on
Malawi was to drive people off their land and into cities where they could work in
newly established businesses.
In her selection (Conversation Style: Talking on the Job) Tannen argues that most
people blame misunderstandings on the ambivalence of words used by men and women
when they talk at work.
Nelson (Eskimo Science) reported that the Inupiaq were more successful hunter than
the Koyukon Indians of Alaska because they engaged in more systematic observations
of their natural environment.
A feud is a good example of a kind of support called coercion.
Bourgois (Office Work and the Crack Alternative) argues that Puerto Rican men feel
degraded and disrespected in the entry-level service jobs found in New York’s
office-bound economy.
In some societies, people believe that individuals are born with supernatural force that
they consciously or unconsciously use to cause harm. Anthropologists classify these
supposed activities as
a. magic.
b. sorcery.
c. witchcraft.
d. two of the above
e. none of the above
Bourgois (Office Work and the Crack Alternative) argues that the most important reason
that second generation Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem find it unpleasant to
work in New York City’s professional offices is
a. the work pays too little.
b. they feel they are treated with disrespect.
c. they are not physically strong enough to work at such jobs.
d. they can”t get to work because they are too poor to own cars.
e. they speak no English..
Diamond (Domestication and the Evolution of Disease) explains the absence of
epidemic diseases among the peoples of the Americas by noting that new world peoples
lacked
a. herd animals, the source of most infectious diseases.
b. cities with unsanitary conditions.
c. cities and states connected by regular trade.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
A rule of relationship that links people together on the basis of reputed common
ancestry is called
a. affinity.
b. descent.
c. patrilineality.
d. marriage.
e. social organization.
According to Dubisch (Run for the Wall), Run for the Wall participants stopped at
a. Angel Fire, New Mexico
b. Denver, Colorado.
c. the Apache reservation in Arizona.
d. Window Rock, Wyoming.
e. all of the above
The culturally defined behaviors associated with particular social statuses are called
a. social identities.
b. social roles.
c. status clusters.
d. social action clusters.
e. social actionality.
The process that promotes economic, political, and other cultural connections among
people living all over the world is called
a. cultural diffusion.
b. world systemization.
c. globalization.
d. cultural hybridization.
e. transnationalism.
Gmelch notes that during one season when he was playing baseball, he refrained from
eating pancakes. This is an example of what anthropologists call
a. a fetish.
b. a taboo.
c. mana.
d. charms.
e. a ritual.
According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), Tswana see time as
a. lineal
b. connected to events. Time happens when events happen.
c. a non concept. Tswana do not think in terms of time.
d. measured by a cycle of ritual occasions.
e. none of the above
According to Fish (Mixed Blood), human biological variety is caused by
a. mutation.
b. natural selection.
c. genetic drift.
d. only two of the above.
e. a, b, can c above.
Lee feels that the key to successful subsistence for many hunter-gatherers, such as the !
Kung, is
a. the presence of large game animals.
b. adequate defense against the encroachment of other hunting and gathering groups.
c. dietary selectivity.
d. dependence largely on a diet of edible plants.
e. band loyalty and membership stability.
Mann (You@Work) warns against which one of the following?
a. asking your friends and family to remove overly personal or unflattering information
about you on their Websites or social networks.
b. checking company Websites for descriptions of jobs.
c. posting your resume on more than one professional Website.
d. creating your own Website.
e. none of the above
According to the Freeds (Taraka’s Ghost),
a. when people die, their souls become wandering ghosts for at least 11 years.
b. ghosts are often released from their restless state in India after they are deemed to
have done a good deed for someone.
c. ghosts are usually the souls of strangers who invade people’s lives and communities.
d. ghosts are the souls of people who die too young and in an unfortunate way, or who
were unhappy in life.
e. none of the above
Cronk, citing work by sociologist Warren Hagstrom, argues that represent gifts in a
system of reciprocal exchange.
a. citations in academic articles
b. food
c. business lunches
d. alcoholic drinks
e. blankets, coppers, and arm shells
In action anthropology, initiate(s), control(s), and implement(s) planned change.
a. administrators
b. the people affected by change
c. the anthropologist
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to McCurdy (Using Anthropology), the first thing a new manager at UTC
did after assuming a new position was to
a. shrink-wrap books in the warehouse.
b. ask warehouse workers, customer outlet staff, and other employees about problems
and procedures.
c. ask previous warehouse managers for advice.
d. change the counting and shipping procedures in the warehouse.
e. devise a new set of incentives to improve work output.
Four of the following are problems experienced by customer outlet staff according to
McCurdy (Using Anthropology). Which one is not?
a. Incorrect amounts of materials arriving at customer outlets.
b. Frayed and worn books and other damaged materials arrived at customer outlets.
c. Wrong materials were sent from the central warehouse.
d. There were late deliveries of materials sent from the warehouse.
e. Warehouse inventory amounts were often wrong.
One of the concepts that the Tiv found it necessary to reinterpret when they were told
the story of Hamlet was the English category for
a. revenge.
b. honor.
c. omen.
d. zombie.
e. ghost.
A lecture, classroom, desks, and time (9:30 a.m.”10:20 a.m.) are all parts of the social
situation as that term is defined by the text.
According to Fish, the American conception of race is
a. based on what people look like.
b. based on the racial identity of one’s parents.
c. ignores the principle of hypo-descent.
d. parallels the way Brazilians classify races.
e. is based on biological reality.
The Freeds (Taraka’s Ghost) note that stress increases for Indian women at the time of
their marriage because
a. they move from the freedom of their parent’s home to the restrictions of their
husband’s household.
b. their kin (fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters) are considered inferior by their
husbands’ relatives.
c. they rank low when they enter their husbands’ households for the first time.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
1. According to the Freeds (Taraka’s Ghost), ghost spirit possession of women in North
India is associated with
a. overwork.
b. stress.
c. tensions among members of her natal family.
d. competition among peers.
e. malnutrition.
Which of the following is the best example of an action based on a tacit cultural rule for
members of U.S. society?
a. chewing with one’s mouth closed
b. driving on the right side of the street
c. giving your father “his” chair in front of the family television
d. moving to the opposite side of an elevator when there is only one other person in it
e. formatting a business letter
The chewing of coca leaves, according to Weatherford, does not
a. cause intoxication.
b. increase calcium intake.
c. reduce the pain of headache.
d. reduce hunger pangs.
e. treat sorroche.
According to Shandy (The Road to Refugee Resettlement), the Nuer of southern Sudan
were first studied by
a. Sir E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
b. Sir Thok Ding.
c. Robert Gardner.
d. Sharon Hutchinson.
e. Marvin Harris.
According to McCurdy, when Bhils visit other villages, they usually stay with
a. members of their patrilineage.
b. members of their patriclan.
c. friends, not kin.
d. members of their extended family.
e. feminal kin.
Which one of the following is a characteristic of Third World women who migrate for
work according to Ehrenreich and Hochschild (Global Women in the New Economy)?
a. A majority are under twenty years of age.
b. Many are better educated than other women from their home country.
c. A majority are single without children.
d. Most of them have trained to acquire special skills that enable them to better find
work in First World countries.
e. Most migrate to escape abusive husbands or other family members.
According to Lee, in 1963 the !Kung had a caloric intake of about per person per day.
a. 4,000
b. 3,030
c. 2,410
d. 2,140
e. 1,890
Which one of the following was not a consequence of outside development in the
Guaran tropical forests, according to Reed?
a. The Indians who stayed on the land could no longer farm.
b. The Guaran could no longer practice successful horticulture.
c. Disease and malnutrition increased.
d. The Indians could no longer successfully hunt and fish.
e. Men often left for work on ranches or commercial farms.
The Chinese depicted by Margery Wolf in the article about uterine families would best
be classified as
a. matrilineal.
b. bilateral.
c. clan endogamous.
d. neolineal.
e. patrilineal.
!Kung expressed disappointment with the ox Lee gave them for the Christmas feast
because
a. the animal was too thin and old.
b. this was their way to “cool” a giver’s potential arrogance.
c. the animal came from an outsider.
d. they were afraid that Lee would take the animal back if they showed approval.
e. they were angry at Lee for intruding on their lives.
Nelson (Eskimo Science) spent years conducting fieldwork among the
a. Iroquois and Creek.
b. Inupiaq and Koyukon.
c. Salish and Ojibwa.
d. Apache and Huron
e. Nacirema and Snaidanac
According to Bestor (How Sushi Went Global), the Japanese control of sushi as a
Japanese cultural entity is enhanced by all but one of the following. Which one is not
something that has enhanced Japanese control?
a. the migration of Japanese sushi chefs to other countries, so that sushi is often
prepared by Japanese experts
b. the appearance of Japanese-named sushi bars in many countries
c. the licensing of bars and restaurants outside of Japan by the Japanese Bureau of
Cultural Exportation (BCE)
d. the use of Japanese dcor and even Japanese language in restaurants and bars that
serve sushi.
e. all of the above
Spradley defines culture as behavior, artifacts, and knowledge.
According to anthropologists, all human disputes are dealt with by legal systems, not
just ones that go to a formal court.
Sutherland notes that the young Gypsy man she helped to defend in court refused to eat
jail food as a protest for not being allowed to call his relatives.
According to Omohundro (Career Advice), it is difficult to translate the skills learned as
an anthropology major into those required in the world of work because anthropology is
such a different and esoteric discipline.
Goldstein argues that Tibetan Polyandry permits wealthy farmers to maintain their
higher standard of living.
The Tiv example demonstrates that nave realism is a human condition that occurs when
people hold mistaken ideas about their own nature of their social and natural
environment.
Deutscher (You Are What You Speak) argues that we do sense colors slightly differently
depending on how we linguistically classify them.
According to Weatherford, the cocaine trade has disrupted the Bolivian transportation
system.