East German soldiers and border guards had been ready and willing to shoot and kill
members of the U.S. military who they saw as enemies who would just as gladly kill
them, yet after they had been demobilized by the reunited Germany, they were able to
sit down with former enemies and eat, talk, and laugh. This demonstrates that states go
about what process?
a. building force.
b. constructing soldiers.
c. fomenting warfare.
d. inciting danger.
e. militarizing life.
According to the textbook, which of the following is NOT a factor that facilitates or
hinders migrants in their journey to new countries?
a. government immigration policies
b. the season of the year when travel takes place
c. geographic proximity
d. communication technology
e. recruitment agencies
Sexuality involves:
a. both personal choices and cultural ideas.
b. personal choices only.
c. cultural ideas only.
d. biology and personal choices, but not cultural ideas.
e. biology and cultural ideas, but not personal choices.
In his study of everyday “Body Rituals among the Nacirema,” Horace Miner:
a. argues that the Nacirema view the body as healthy and beautiful.
b. identifies courts as the most important institution in society.
c. focuses on public rituals rather than everyday, mundane activities.
d. makes the familiar seem very strange.
e. relies exclusively on statistical data.
Anthropologists’ definitions emphasize that art is:
a. solely the domain of elites.
b. created only by professional artists.
c. exclusively seen in museums or heard in opera houses.
d. shaped by the viewers’ perspective and culture.
e. a product of individual rather than community production.
Which of the following statements is true?
a. All societies develop identical patterns of stratification that differentiate people into
groups or classes.
b. Each society develops its own patterns of stratification that differentiate people into
groups or classes.
c. Hunter-gatherer social structure has promoted ranked societies.
d. Egalitarian societies do not exist in the world today.
e. The best-known examples of contemporary ranked societies are the Amish and
Hutterite communities.
Which of the following commonly creates socially recognized relationships that may
involve physical and emotional intimacy, sexual pleasure, reproduction and raising of
children, mutual support and companionship, and shared legal rights to property and
inheritance?
a. lineage
b. marriage
c. heredity
d. descent
e. biology
Margaret Mead’s work in the islands of the western Pacific contributed which of the
following to a greater understanding of human sexuality?
a. This work provided evidence that men are naturally sexually promiscuous.
b. This work challenged the assumptions that sexual practices should be private rather
than public.
c. This work provided evidence that women are naturally sexually promiscuous.
d. This work explored the commonalities between human sexual practices and the
sexual practices of other primates.
e. This work challenged the assumptions that U.S. attitudes about sexuality were
universal traits fixed in human nature.
In youth sports in the United States, behaviors that tend to receive the most praise from
coaches are:
a. gender neutral, for example, honesty and fairness.
b. agility, which is associated with girls.
c. whatever tactics win the game.
d. aggression, which is associated with manliness.
e. following the rules, which are gender neutral.
In an age of intensifying globalization, ________ remains a critical research strategy
that provides a deep insight and understanding of the myriad parts of our informants’
everyday lives and cultures.
a. conducting surveys
b. drawing maps
c. participant observation
d. recording field notes
e. videotaping rituals
All of the women in Patty Kelly’s research in a brothel in Chiapas, Mexico, used the
brothel as a way to do all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. build a sense of community.
b. make a decent living.
c. get health care.
d. work out unresolved childhood issues.
e. develop a sense of dignity.
The ecosystem, composed of trillions of organisms in the human body, is a:
a. cultural pharmacology.
b. disease.
c. bacteria.
d. human microbiome.
e. nature cure.
________argued that every cultural action is more than the action itself in that it is also
a symbol of deeper meaning, which is considered an interpretivist approach in
anthropology.
a. Ruth Benedict (1887″1948)
b. Clifford Geertz (1926″2006)
c. Bronislaw Malinowski (1884″1924)
d. Margaret Mead (1901″1979)
e. Franz Boas (1858″1942)
A patrilineal descent group traces kinships through which side of the family?
a. mother’s
b. sibling’s
c. grandparent’s
d. father’s
e. cousin’s
Medical data indicate that ________ of individuals are born without the biological traits
that make them easily classified biologically as male or female.
a. approximately 5 percent
b. more than 7 percent
c. less than 2 percent
d. approximately 10 percent
e. approximately 15 percent
Fieldwork is considered a ________ for students because it creates a common bond
among professionals in the field.
a. bond of collegiality
b. mutual transformation
c. developmental stage
d. rite of passage
e. evolutionary step
Which of the following outcomes is NOT associated with efforts to preserve the Native
American Lakota language, spoken by about 50,000 people in the United States?
a. preserving language sample and cultural knowledge
b. creating visual dictionaries of images tagged with Lakota terms
c. comparing the Lakota language to Turkic languages in central Asia
d. uploading school projects to community websites
e. using participatory social media technology like YouTube and Flickr
Which of the following is defined as “attraction to and sexual relationships with
members of the same sex”?
a. bisexuality
b. heterosexuality
c. transgender
d. homosexuality
e. asexuality
Hunting and gathering peoples developed a successful adaptation that promoted
generosity, altruism, and sharing while resisting upstarts, aggression, and egoism. This
is referred to as:
a. compatibility.
b. consensus.
c. egalitarianism.
d. hierarchy.
e. parallelism.
Investigations of Cte d”Ivoire do not reveal which of the following complex dynamics
seen in the global economy?
a. interconnectedness of farmers in Africa with global consumers
b. tensions between nation-states and transnational corporations
c. commodity chains that help to reinforce distinct national territories
d. strategic military interventions to police global economic flows
e. global financial markets affecting producers’ compensation and quality of life
The text offers examples of sex tourism destinations around the world. Which of the
following is NOT mentioned in the text?
a. France
b. Costa Rica
c. the Dominican Republic
d. Thailand
e. Brazil
Margaret Mead’s talent for blending fieldwork with dynamic writing about gender roles
provided her with the authority and opportunity to become an important ________
anthropologist.
a. synchronic
b. experimental
c. evolutionary
d. public
e. reflexive
Lewis Henry Morgan:
a. conducted a restudy of the Trobriand Islands.
b. researched social life among the Nuer of Africa.
c. studied the effects of colonialism in Puerto Rico.
d. examined sexuality in Samoa.
e. became an expert on Native Americans.
The study of fossils and ancient DNA to trace changes in human ancestors over time
involves which specialization of anthropology?
a. prehistoric archaeology
b. forensic anthropology
c. paleoanthropology
d. historic archaeology
e. biogenetics
The worldwide intensification of interactions among human beings across national
borders is referred to as:
a. time-space compression.
b. outsourcing.
c. globalism.
d. increasing migration.
e. density of acquaintance.
Inequalities of wealth, power, privilege, and access to resources, coupled with poor
health that impacts victims’ lives in painful ways, are known as:
a. gender stratification.
b. structured gender violence.
c. interpersonal violence.
d. gender-based torture.
e. social injustice.
A pseudoscience attempting to scientifically prove the existence of separate human
races to improve the population’s genetic composition by favoring some races over
others is known as:
a. racialization.
b. nativism.
c. institutional racism.
d. eugenics.
e. Aryanism.
Which of the following factors would a cultural constructionist consider studying when
investigating human sexuality?
a. seagull mating patterns
b. the human genome
c. neurochemical responses
d. a Christian dating forum
e. Ukrainian festival organization
Harvard-trained biologist and zoologist Alfred Kinsey’s study on human sexuality
revealed which of the following?
a. a strict dichotomy between heterosexuality and homosexuality
b. a set of simplistic sexual categories
c. sexual behaviors remain fixed over the course of a lifetime
d. a continuum of sexual behavior
e. most Americans identified as homosexual
The question of how the state came into being, how it is established as an ultimate
authority, and how each state is uniquely constructed and organized by people is the
focus of:
a. government officials.
b. political anthropologists.
c. political scientists.
d. political sociologists.
e. social historians.
The best, most succinct definition of evolution is:
a. a change in physical appearance over time.
b. the change in human populations in one generation.
c. any type of genetic mutation.
d. that biological adaptations in organisms occur in response to changes in the
environment and develop over generations.
e. the changes that occur in an organism when it is exposed to a mutagen.