Miner (Body Ritual among the Nacirema) notes that the Nacirema enjoy eating a
variety of foods that have been purified by dipping them in a ritual vessel filled with
boiling oil.
Any use of anthropological knowledge by anthropologists to increase the power of self-
determination of a particular cultural group is called
a. action anthropology.
b. academic anthropology.
c. advocate anthropology.
d. adjustment anthropology.
e. administrative anthropology.
Four of the following statements are true. Which one is not? Sterk (Fieldwork on
Prostitution in the Era of AIDS) argues that
a. it is essential to act like an authority when you interview informants.
b. initial contacts in the field are often referred to as gatekeepers and key respondents
by anthropologists.
c. it is important to watch out for self-nominated key informants.
d. the best way to gain rapport is to show interest in people and do things for them.
e. in depth interviews should be done in private.
According to Margery Wolf, which one of the following would be a member of her
uterine family after she is married?
a. her mother-in-law
b. her sons
c. her brothers
d. her sisters
e. her mother
According to Bestor, the reason that Japanese had to turn to the world market for
bluefin tuna was
a. they had completely fished out bluefin tuna in the Pacific.
b. a world agreement prevented fishing within 200 miles of other countries’ shores.
c. the Japanese discovered that Atlantic tuna were much better than their own Pacific
tuna.
d. sushi became more popular in Japan in the 1960s so that demand outran supply.
e. the cost of bluefin tuna sold on the world market was much lower than the cost in
Japanese markets.
According to Nelson (Eskimo Science), if one is attacked by a polar bear at close
quarters it is best to jump away from its left paw because
a. polar bears are left handed (pawed).
b. polar bears tend to look left when they attack people.
c. polar bears attack to their left almost all the time.
d. the claws on the polar bear’s right paw are sharper.
e. none of the above
A central point that Dubisch makes about the men who participate in The Run for the
Wall, is that
a. they wish to repair the emotional wounds caused by their Vietnam war experiences
and unpleasant homecomings.
b. they are motivated by a desire to embarrass those who opposed the war.
c. they enjoy showing off their expensive motorcycles to onlookers.
d. they seek to increase veterans appropriations by publicly pressuring Congress.
e. they come from all walks of American life but have at least two things in common, a
love for motorcycles and a resentment against those who opposed the war.
According to Bourgois (Office Work and the Crack Alternative), the unionized jobs
associated with manufacturing in New York
a. provided life-time security for Puerto Rican workers.
b. were difficult for Puerto Ricans to get because they were foreigners.
c were open only to Anglo workers.
d. permitted some rebellious behavior.
e. required more education than non unionized jobs.
Anything that contributes to the adoption of public policy and its enforcement is called
a. authority.
b. coercion.
c. legitimacy.
d. support.
e. leadership.
Descent from a common ancestor through males only, is called
a. patrilineal descent.
b. matrilineal descent.
c. bilateral descent.
d. exogamy.
e. endogamy.
According to Miner (Body Ritual among the Nacirema), the latipso is the name for
a. holy mouth men.
b. household shrines.
c. medicine men’s temple.
d. the charm box found in a household shrine.
e. “listeners.”
According to Spradley, the belief that people everywhere interpret the world in the same
way is called
a. naive realism.
b. ethnography.
c. cultural behavior.
d. explicit culture.
e. tacit culture.
According to Miner (Body Ritual among the Nacirema), men engage in a daily ritual
that involves scraping and lacerating the face with a sharp object.
The idea that human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings they have
for them is a tenet of
a. naive realism.
b. explicit culture.
c. tacit culture.
d. ethnographic research techniques.
e. symbolic interaction.
According to Lee and Biesele, by 1994 Ju/”Hoansi !Kung were
a. living in mud-walled houses behind makeshift stockades.
b. living in circular, tight-knit villages.
c. obtaining about 70 percent of their food through hunting and gathering.
d. two of the above
e. a, b, and c above
According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), Tswana see greeting others as a(n)
a. waste of time.
b. way to be polite.
c. strategy to avoid work.
d. time to size up other people’s intentions.
e. essential act and time to exchange news.
According to Guneratne and Bjork (Village Walks), Tharu villagers from Pipariya
referred to tourists as
a. pests.
b. customers (of goods they had for sale).
c. arrogant.
d. guests.
e. none of the above
According to Alverson (Advice for Developers), which statement is not true about the
Tswana?
a. Tswana value close friendships.
b. Tswana feel privacy is abnormal for people.
c. Tswana often lie to avoid conflict.
d. Tswana value hospitality and one’s ability to be social.
e. Tswana see many Americans as loud, pushy, back slapping people.
According to Bourgois (Office Work and the Crack Alternative), as reported in the 1990
census,
a. 78.4 percent of the women living in New York’s Spanish Harlem receive public
assistance.
b. 48.3 percent of men living in Spanish Harlem were “officially employed.”
c. more than half the Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem sell crack cocaine
d. the only jobs Puerto Rican men can get in New York City are dirty manufacturing
jobs.
e. 42.4 percent of Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem have fathered children
with women to whom they are not married.
When linguistic anthropologists search for minimal pairs of words from informants,
they are most likely to be looking for
a. morphemes.
b. metaphors.
c. frames.
d. phonemes.
e. sociolinguistic rules.
According to Lee, a !Kung hunter
a. eats all of a kill himself.
b. shares game only with his own family.
c. gives all the meat from an animal he has killed to the man who made the arrow he
used.
d. shares what he kills with others and expects them to reciprocate.
e. may do anything he likes with an animal he kills.
Minimal categories of speech that serve to keep utterances apart are called
a. morphemes.
b. minimal pairs.
c. words.
d. phonemes.
e. phones.
Based on Deutcher’s article, which one of the following is not true?
a. The Guugu Yumithiir of Australia use only geographic words to indicate direction.
b. German and French both grammatically apply gender to objects and people.
c. The Balinese do not use egocentric words to indicate direction.
d. Children who grow up in societies that only use geography to indicate direction
develop an exceptional ability to tell directions.
e. The word “bed” is female in Hebrew.
George Gmelch (Nice Girls Don”t Talk to Rastas), notes that American students often
behave according to a principle called personal autonomy when they live among people
in other societies. This means that
* a. if they see what they believe is “truth,” they can act without concern for what others
think.
b. they should be able to have their own private space in which to live.
c. they can feel free to criticize local people.
d. they can feel superior to local people without feeling bad about it.
e. if they don”t like a local custom, they can ignore it.
Reed argues that, for the Guaran, ____________ was essential to subsistence.
a. farming
b. foraging
c. the combination of rubber tree tapping and foraging
d. the combination of hunting and gathering
e. the combination of farming and foraging
The cross-cultural misunderstanding experienced between Lee and the !Kung occurred
over
a. the cultural meaning of the gift of an ox.
b. the criteria for defining what makes an ox desirable.
c. the way Lee gave them the ox.
d. the cultural meaning of oxen.
e. the poor condition of the ox.
According to Gmelch (Nice Girls Don”t Talk to Rastas), people living in the rural
Barbadian community where his study abroad student, Johanna, was doing research
believed that
a. Rastafarians had taken vows of celibacy and young women should not talk to them.
b. Rastafarians were low class because their ancestors had come from Africa.
c. Rastafarians were lazy, pot smoking people who stole things and bathed naked.
d. Rastafarians were members of a religion that revered Islam, not Christianity.
e. none of the above
According to Gmelch (Nice Girls Don”t Talk to Rastas), orthodox Rastafarians are
a. part of a religious sect whose members go without clothes, subsist off the land, and
go
without clothes.
b. part of a Muslim sect found largely on Caribbean islands.
c. a sub group practicing voodoo religious rights.
d. a monastic group that is based on a North African religious tradition.
e. none of the above
Diamond (Domestication and the Evolution of Disease) argues that four of the
following are attributes of epidemic diseases. Which one is not?
a. They enjoy a rapid exposure.
b. They kill a high percentage of their victims but those who survive have lasting
immunity.
c. They tend to afflict human populations in a steady, persistent manner.
d. They leave survivors with antibodies that last (lasting immunity).
e. They are associated with large, dense populations.
According to the Freeds (Taraka’s Ghost), Taraka’s ghost was the soul of Sita’s
a. cousin who had committed suicide after becoming pregnant.
b. mother who had lived an unhappy life and died of pneumonia.
c. friend who had been raped by a schoolmaster.
d. father who was killed during the Second World War serving in the British army.
e. uncle who was murdered by his lover’s jealous husband.
Cronk notes that four of the following are good examples of reciprocal gift giving.
Which one is not?
a. academic articles submitted to academic journals
b. shoes bought at a local mall
c. concessions made between U.S. and Russian negotiators during peace negotiations a
few years ago
d. shell necklaces and arm bands traded in ritual fashion in the Trobriand Island
exchange system called the kula
e. “swapping” reported by Carol Stack for African Americans living in a place in
Illinois called the flats
According to Weatherford (The Founding Indian Fathers), the purpose of debate in
Indian councils was to
a. “flatten” opponents in order to gain prestige.
b. demonstrate a speaker’s skills at public oratory.
c. increase the power of the speaker’s constituents.
d. persuade and educate those present rather than intimidate them.
e. show that the speaker was ready to gain a higher office.
People who flee their country of origin because they share a well-founded fear of
persecution are called
a. tourists.
b. immigrants.
c. stateless persons.
d. refugees.
e. transnationalites.
According to Miner (Body Ritual among the Nacirema), the Nacirema demonstrate
masochistic tendencies as evidenced by their willingness to have their teeth probed and
excavated by ritual specialists called holy mouth men.