The incest taboo universally prohibits sexual relations:
a. between cousins, regardless of cross- or parallel cousin relationships.
b. between first cousins and between second cousins.
c. between parents and children and siblings.
d. between half siblings and parallel cousins.
e. between half siblings and cross cousins.
Religious revivals have been spreading across various areas of the world such as China.
What constitutes religious revivals? Other than China, what is an example of an area in
the world that is experiencing religious revival? What is involved in your example of
religious revival and why do you think it is occurring? How is the religious revival in
your example related to other social systems of power? What do you think are the
underlying forces spurring the religious revival, what direction do you think it will take
in the future, and what forces do you think will affect the future direction? Do you think
religion will eventually die out in the future? Why or why not?
Families and kinship networks have the power to provide support and to nurture, as
well as to ensure reproduction of which of the following?
a. a subsequent marriage
b. economic resources
c. the next generation
d. the political system
e. social norms
________________ is a social scientist who wrote about the link between sexuality and
power, describing the ways that sexuality is an arena in which appropriate behavior is
defined, relations of power are worked out, and inequality and stratification are created,
enforced, and contested.
a. Bronislaw Malinowski
b. Michel Foucault
c. Franz Boas
d. Brian Fontana
e. Sylvester Gutierrez
Gender stereotypes are defined as:
a. culturally based preconceived notions about the attributes of differences between, and
proper roles for, men and women.
b. the way gender identity is expressed through action.
c. the ways humans learn to behave and recognize behaviors as masculine or feminine
within cultural context.
d. the expectation of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of
different sexes.
e. a set of cultural ideas about the essential character of different genders that functions
to promote and justify gender stratification.
Which population did Khiara Bridges study?
a. Hmong immigrants in the United States
b. the Fore of New Guinea
c. Maya in Yucatan, Mexico
d. mothers in New York City
e. impoverished Haitians
A sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people
who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group is known as a(n):
a. nation.
b. nationality.
c. ethnicity.
d. lineage.
e. culture.
Stereotypically, images of health care in ________ include doctors in white coats,
hospitals, and advanced technology.
a. Tibet
b. the United States
c. China
d. Yucatn
e. northern India
Transnationalism is:
a. immigrants who continue to travel back and forth between destination and origin
countries.
b. the process by which immigrants decide to leave the country they migrated to and
relocate “home.”
c. assets and skills such as language, education, or social networks that complement
financial resources.
d. the maintenance of active participation in political, religious, social, and economic
spheres across national borders.
e. migration that takes place within borders.
Which of the following is considered a type of magic that centers on the belief that
certain materials, such as clothing, hair, or fingernails, allow power to be transferred
from person to person?
a. contagious magic
b. ritual magic
c. continuous magic
d. imitative magic
e. liminal magic
Chinese medicine conceptualizes qi as:
a. the balance of hot and cold forces.
b. an energy found in all living things.
c. an ecosystem of the all the bacteria found in the body.
d. a form of therapeutic massage.
e. the burning of herbs near the skin.
Since ethnicity is not biologically fixed, self-identification with a particular ethnic
group can change through what process?
a. situational negotiation of identity
b. rationalization of self
c. naturalization of identity
d. ethno-determination
e. ethnic cleansing
The role of the Catholic Church in the Zapatista Movement in the Chiapas region of
southern Mexico illustrates a relationship in Mexico between religion and:
a. language.
b. family.
c. ritual.
d. poverty.
e. revolution.
________ is gender identity displayed through action.
a. Stereotyping
b. Discourse
c. Construction
d. Performance
e. Transgendering
Return migration is:
a. immigrants who continue to travel back and forth between destination and origin
countries.
b. the process by which immigrants decide to leave the country they migrated to and
relocate “home.”
c. assets and skills such as language, education, or social networks that complement
financial resources.
d. the maintenance of active participation in political, religious, social, and economic
spheres across national borders.
e. migration that takes place within borders.
A historical term meant to belittle and vilify “mixed” marriages is:
a. alienation.
b. degradation.
c. maligning.
d. miscegenation.
e. motley.
In the study of immigration, anthropologists look at physical differences between
populations, how the groups involved conceive of themselves and others, what they say
about those other groups, and how these groups related to others in the past. This is an
example of what aspect of anthropology?
a. ethnology
b. globalism
c. elitism
d. holism
e. organicism
Which group of scholars generally contends that who we are, how we think and behave,
and how we organize our societies are a product of evolution and thus are hardwired in
our DNA?
a. chemical engineers
b. cultural anthropologists
c. evolutionary psychologists
d. psychological sociologists
e. public epidemiologists
Fordism is best defined as a(n):
a. conservative worldview that sees the free market as the main mechanism for ensuring
economic growth.
b. flexible strategy that corporations use to accumulate profits during the era of
globalization.
c. universal strategy for exploiting raw materials from colonized nations.
d. model of production based on a social compact between labor, capital, and
government.
e. economic worldview that holds that government should play no role in economic
growth.
Anthropologist George Gmelch found that players who use a particular ritual, such as
touching the bill of their cap every time they are up to bat, generally tend to believe that
good magic is:
a. customized.
b. consistent.
c. ritualized.
d. ineffective.
e. contagious.