Explain where and when the so-called Triangle Trade occurred, identifying the three
primary commodities the text discusses in this exchange network. Contrast the
production and exchanges that occurred in the Caribbean plantation economy with the
exchanges occurring between European trappers and Native American populations in
North America.
Which of the following reveal the way power is distributed in a society?
a. retirement plans
b. investment patterns
c. wealth plans
d. dividend plans
e. income patterns
A person who believes that Italians are somehow “inferior” and therefore refuses to give
an Italian person a job is demonstrating:
a. racist ideology.
b. individual racism.
c. fascism.
d. nativism.
e. eugenics.
Christopher Steiner’s ethnography of art in Abidjan, Cte D”Ivoire, focuses on a market
where the primary consumers of locally produced art are:
a. Arab businessmen.
b. African farmers.
c. Western businessmen.
d. Western tourists.
e. Muslim art collectors.
Mati may engage in sexual relationships with:
a. men.
b. women.
c. no one.
d. men and women.
e. only other mati.
The complexity of cave art suggests that:
a. the paintings may have been used in storytelling or for record keeping.
b. humans did not yet have advanced cognitive skills.
c. cavemen had limited knowledge of the technology required to show movement.
d. the type of paint used for painting was simple watercolors.
e. cavemen began to paint before they were able to carve bones.
While people are ________to migrate by job opportunities, educational opportunities,
and access to health care, they are ________to migrate by poverty, famine, war, disease,
and religious oppression, among other factors.
a. pushed; pulled
b. pulled; pushed
c. persuaded; dissuaded
d. dissuaded; persuaded
e. convinced; tricked
The way in which individuals act out the behaviors associated with masculinity and
femininity is called gender:
a. stratification.
b. performance.
c. dimorphism.
d. play.
e. practice.
Which of the following constitutes the complex historical and social developments
through which symbols are given power and meaning?
a. democratizing process
b. secularizing process
c. authorizing process
d. globalizing process
e. standardizing process
Tom Boellstorff described Second Life as a community because:
a. participants have developed a unique culture and set of beliefs.
b. the community has clearly stated ultimate goals.
c. participants were able to tell him how the community began and would end.
d. most participants spent considerable amounts of time together when they were not
online.
e. all of the participants speak English as their first language.
Digital natives are:
a. the gap between those fully able to participate in the digital age and those without
access to electricity, the Internet, and mobile phones.
b. social struggles for worker rights and democracy that are aided by social media,
mobile phones, and electronic communication.
c. born after the 1980s; this generation has spent their lives using devices like
smartphones and laptops.
d. the era defined by the proliferation of high-speed communication technologies, social
networking, and personal computing.
e. the generation that uses technology, but in a process more akin to learning a new
culture or language.
Which of the following is NOT an example of the attempt to regulate aspects of
sexuality by cultural institutions such as the government?
a. age of consent
b. divorce
c. age of licensed driver
d. reproductive rights
e. marriage
The traditional political system of Micronesia of matrilineal clans headed by chiefs and
dispersed across many islands, which allows them to readily recover from disastrous
situations, is known as:
a. tribes.
b. states.
c. groups.
d. chiefdoms.
e. bands.
A key group that the credit card industry in the United States explicitly targets is:
a. high school teenagers.
b. service industry employees.
c. blue-collar workers.
d. retired teachers.
e. college students.
A set of ideas about a group of people, such as “All Irishmen are drunks who beat their
wives” or “All Arabs are terrorists,” that then makes it seem natural and normal to
discriminate against them is referred to as:
a. group racism.
b. institutional racism.
c. eugenics.
d. racist ideology.
e. fascism.
In India’s caste system, the population is divided into how many different castes, or
varna?
a. twelve
b. seven
c. four
d. thirteen
e. two
The political structure of all modern countries, including the United States and the
Republic of Singapore, with a central government that ideally exercises complete
political, military, and economic control of its territory is known as a:
a. tribe.
b. state.
c. nation.
d. country.
e. confederacy.
Karl Marx argued that which of the following played a key role in keeping the working
poor from engaging in revolutionary social change that he believed was necessary to
improve their situation?
a. communitas
b. rites
c. rituals
d. pilgrimages
e. religion
A marriage between a white person and someone of an “inferior race” was referred to
as:
a. degradation.
b. miscegenation.
c. hypodescent.
d. dilution.
e. mixing.
Which of the following conditions is believed to be transmitted through funerary
practices?
a. epilepsy
b. kuru
c. qaug dab peg
d. tuberculosis
e. foot and mouth disease
________ is the perception of an object’s antiquity, uniqueness, and originality within a
local
culture.
a. Aesthetics
b. Popularity
c. Kinetics
d. Value
e. Authenticity
The process of ________ utilizes the wealth of anthropological studies to compare the
activities, trends, and patterns of power across cultures.
a. transformation
b. enculturation
c. cultural relativity
d. globalization
e. ethnology
People who stay actively connected with social, economic, political, and religious
spheres across national borders are called ________ migrants.
a. second-generation
b. guest worker
c. transnational
d. internal
e. undocumented
Early states played an important role in the development of most areas of the world, so
their origin, construction, and organization are the focus of modern:
a. social historians.
b. political scientists.
c. political anthropologists.
d. government officials.
e. archaeologists.
Of the Nikkeijin, or Japanese who live abroad, those who continue to travel back and
forth between Japan and Brazil are called:
a. assimilated migrants.
b. yo-yo migrants.
c. refugees.
d. internally displaced.
e. brain drain.
According to the text, medical anthropologists see health as a product of:
a. the environment, with absence of poverty and violence critical factors for good
health.
b. the environment, with moderate climate and lots of sun critical factors for good
health.
c. behavior, that is, the natural result of individuals’ choices.
d. genetics, which means it cannot be affected by environment or behavior.
e. genetics and behavior, with no influence from the environment.
The anthropological approach to art:
a. advocates displaying art from different cultures without specifying its original
context.
b. attempts to understand the development and meaning of local art forms within
their unique and complex cultural contexts.
c. emphasizes evolutionary framing and evaluation.
d. has not focused on the movement of art beyond local or national borders.
e. has tended to reproduce stereotypes and hierarchies within the art world.
Imagine that in a small city in the northern region of Brazil, students have learned
English for a generation with a specific focus on working in Brazilian restaurants in
New York City. Two in three inhabitants have already migrated to New York, and
several support organizations exist solely to serve migrants from this city. What term
might anthropologists use to describe how migration has become a way of life?
a. diffusion model
b. guest worker program
c. social capital
d. cumulative causation
e. multiculturalism
The desire of Scots to have their own independent country of Scotland, separate from
the United Kingdom, which they are a part of now, illustrates the concept of:
a. dominion.
b. nationalism.
c. partition.
d. schism.
e. separation.
Research that compares two communities to examine links between them is referred to
as:
a. cross-linked.
b. multi-sited.
c. globalized.
d. bilocational.
e. descriptive.
A person may inherit a genetic pattern for above-average height, but may only reach
average height due to poor nutrition. This is an expression of that person’s:
a. genotype.
b. phenotype.
c. nature.
d. DNA.
e. cline.
According to Max Weber, the values of self-denial and self-discipline that provided the
ethic necessary for capitalism to flourish are encapsulated in the ________ ethic.
a. capitalist
b. modern
c. Protestant
d. labor
e. Christian
According to the text, desi men’s performance of an “authentic” Indian marriageable
identity:
a. does not conflict with their performance at dance clubs because they consult with
their elders about expectations.
b. includes adopting the look, dress, and language of U.S.-based “gangstas.”
c. includes consulting a marriage broker because all of these marriages are arranged.
d. includes working toward a career that will support a wife and family.
e. includes trying to blend into mainstream U.S. culture.
Anthropologists such as Setha Low have demonstrated that class is largely invisible in
the United States due to which of the following actions carried out by portions of the
population?
a. individual association
b. neighborhood fusion
c. community building
d. media seclusion
e. voluntary isolation
Individual thoughts and actions and institutional patterns and policies that create
unequal access to power, resources, and opportunities based on imagined differences
among groups are referred to as:
a. ethnocentrism.
b. prejudice.
c. racism.
d. ethnocide.
e. genocide.