When individuals speak in a manner that does not conform to what is known as
“Standard English,” according to the author, they are:
a. speaking a dialect of English that is linguistically flawed.
b. usually seen as speaking a prestige language.
c. unaffected by their nonstandard speech.
d. often considered to be uneducated or low class.
e. thought to be creative and poetic.
The practice of marriage to an individual outside of a particular group of people is
termed:
a. endrogamy.
b. androgamy.
c. endogamy.
d. polygamy.
e. exogamy.
Franz Boas’ fieldwork toolkit was likely to have included all of the following items
EXCEPT a:
a. pen.
b. notebook.
c. camera.
d. dictionary.
e. computer.
Refugees are:
a. immigrants who move to start businesses and conduct trade.
b. people who move in search of low-skill and low-wage jobs that native-born workers
will not fill.
c. highly trained individuals who help fill labor shortage for middle-class and skilled
occupations.
d. people who have been forced to move beyond their national borders due to natural
disasters, political or religious persecution, or violence.
e. migrants granted the right to work for a limited time but without long-term rights and
privileges.
Immigrants from India come from many different areas with different languages and
customs, but once they arrive in the United States, these previous distinctions become
less important and they all begin the process of becoming Indian American, EXCEPT
which group of people?
a. blacks
b. Brahmins
c. Dalits
d. gays and lesbians
e. harijans
In Horace Miner’s interpretations of Nacirema culture, ________ are important ritual
specialists.
a. kings and queens
b. teachers
c. physicians and dentists
d. actors
e. lawyers
Stratification and inequality became:
a. more pronounced in industrialized capitalist economies over recent centuries,
resulting in the concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer people.
b. less pronounced in industrialized capitalist economies over recent centuries, resulting
in more egalitarian distribution of wealth in those societies.
c. the dominant societal form in hunter-gatherer societies early in human history.
d. less pronounced in all societies over recent centuries due to the efforts of the Amish
and Hutterites to spread egalitarianism and reciprocity around the world.
e. more pronounced in countries like Norway, Sweden, and Denmark as a result of
efforts to redistribute wealth by decreasing social benefits.
The participants in the Black Light Project with whom Aimee Cox worked were:
a. homeless.
b. handicapped.
c. avatars.
d. socialites.
e. poets.
Rape of men and women was one of the most brutal and powerful ways that gender
stratification was performed in:
a. the Zar Cult of Sudan.
b. Samoa of the 1920s.
c. factories on the U.S.”Mexico border.
d. the civil war of El Salvador.
e. the Trobriand Islands.
Arranged marriages that are orchestrated by the families of the bride and groom are
common in many cultural groups in Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.
While arranged marriage is not the primary form of marriage in the United States, it
does exist. In fact, anthropologists contend that arranged marriages actually do occur
more frequently when marriages that are arranged in subtle and implicit ways are
considered. What are three examples of subtle, “arranged” marriages that occur in the
United States that may not necessarily be overtly called “arranged marriages”? Who
benefits from these “arranged” marriages? Why do you think these types of marriages
occur? How do these types of marriage compare to companionate marriages? Which
type of marriage do you think is more beneficial to the spouses and to their
communities, and why?
Which type of assisted reproductive technology involves the implantation of a woman’s
egg that has been fertilized in a laboratory?
a. surrogate fertilization
b. in vitro fertilization
c. artificial insemination
d. reproductive fertilization
e. fertile insemination
Anthropologist Gregory Mantsios contends that the media play a significant role in
hiding class stratification in the United States by largely ________ class.
a. skewing
b. featuring
c. ignoring
d. replicating
e. complicating
Many immigrant groups in the United Statessuch as Arabs, Czechs, the French, Irish,
Italians, Greeks, Jews, and many othershave assimilated into white American society,
and this has been described as a(n):
a. melting pot.
b. patchwork.
c. tossed salad.
d. potpourri.
e. amalgamation.
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard’s approach to anthropology has been criticized for being:
a. ahistorical.
b. experimental.
c. reflexive.
d. evolutionary.
e. interpretive.
Which of the following statements about the mati of Suriname is true?
a. “Mati work” parallels European ideas of lesbianism.
b. Mati regard sexuality as a flexible behavior rather than a fixed identity.
c. Mati marry men for children and economic stability while maintaining “visiting
relationships” with female partners.
d. “Mati work” is a practice that was transferred from the Netherlands to its colony, and
that later disappeared in the Netherlands while persisting in Suriname.
e. Mati relationships in the Netherlands are a model of egalitarianism for traditional
heterosexual couples.
Which of the following practices entails using spells, incantations, words, and actions in
order to compel supernatural forces to act in certain ways?
a. ritual
b. liminality
c. magic
d. doctrine
e. ideology
________ are commonly used as a strategy to collect quantitative data.
a. Interviews
b. Surveys
c. Life histories
d. Conversations
e. Social networks
Improved conditions across the globe indicate that the Millennial goal of achieving
gender equality:
a. was reached in 2010.
b. is in fact far from complete, even though conditions have improved somewhat.
c. has yet to be reached, but is no longer a priority because conditions have improved so
much.
d. would be reached in the early months of 2012.
e. has actually skewed gender inequality the other way, and now it is men that must be
empowered.
People who have been forced to migrate because of violence, religious persecution, or
disasters but stay within their own countries are referred to as:
a. labor migrants.
b. internally displaced persons.
c. transnational refugees.
d. guest workers.
e. coyotes.
The restudy of women’s role in the Trobriand Island exchanges indicated that:
a. women exchanged banana fiber skirts during funerary activities.
b. women participated in elaborate exchanges of shell armbands and necklaces.
c. women’s exchanges were not tied to the yam exchanges Malinowski reported.
d. women played a limited role in rituals and ceremonial exchanges.
e. women and men played complementary roles in the exchange of foods.
It is impossible to study a local community today without considering the effect of:
a. climate change.
b. diversity.
c. increased migration.
d. global forces.
e. time-space compression.
The text discusses the Tsukiji fish market as an example of a global commodity chain
because:
a. one can trace the hands fish pass through in a network that connects previously
unconnected people and locations.
b. merchants in Tokyo opted to sell only local produce to make the market more
sustainable.
c. it has become the largest tourism attraction in Tokyo.
d. it is a shifting of core and periphery because goods and money are flowing from the
periphery to the core.
e. prices for tuna are determined on the New York Stock exchange rather than in Tokyo,
with the standardized prices improving the income of Japanese fishermen.
Kuru is a disease that:
a. is passed genetically from father to son in New Guinea.
b. is a serious health threat to black women in New York City.
c. the Fore acquire through consuming cooked flesh.
d. Spanish conquistadores brought to the New World.
e. causes dysentery and vomiting in northern India.
In the United States, statistical data for racial disparities in health indicate that:
a. there is little difference between maternal mortality of black and white mothers.
b. black babies are more than twice as likely to die in infancy as white babies.
c. high-quality health care in New York City means lower rates of maternal mortality
than
national averages.
d. there are higher rates of infant mortality among women of any race who live in the
Deep South.
e. white women die more frequently from complications of pregnancy than women of
color.
What is a flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses physical
characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups?
a. ethnicity
b. Linnaean system
c. phylogeny
d. race
e. clinal system
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884″1942) employed an early form of ________in his
anthropological research conducted in the Trobriand Islands.
a. structural functionalism
b. evolutionism
c. interpretivism
d. particularism
e. historicism
Emilio Moran’s Anthropological Center for Training and Research aims to:
a. produce sustainable goods to limit use of coal in British factories.
b. train anthropologists to develop advanced technologies for measuring climate
change.
c. use anthropological skills to study changing uses of Amazonian fields across time.
d. teach scientists ethnographic skills and methodologies so they can study climate
change.
e. interview Himalayans about how they are coping with water shortages.
Carlos Murphy is from an Irish Mexican family, and he rides with pride on the Sons of
Erin float in the St. Patrick’s Day parade and drinks margaritas with his Mexican
relatives the next day. This demonstrates the concept of:
a. flexible concept of self.
b. rationalization of identity.
c. simulated nationalism.
d. situational negotiation of identity.
e. transitional nationality.
The site at Middle Awash River Valley, Ethiopia, has yielded fossil discoveries of:
a. both archaic and modern human ancestors.
b. Neandertals.
c. a primitive species dubbed the “Hobbit.”
d. the skeletal remains of the Turkana Boy.
e. Sahelanthropus.
The two types of descent groups distinguished by anthropologists are clans and:
a. lineages.
b. descents.
c. heredities.
d. cognatics.
e. cousins.
When people seek to take advantage of emerging economic or investment opportunities,
they are said to be ________ to new destinations.
a. assimilated
b. pushed
c. remitted
d. pulled
e. internally displaced
Dependency theory is best defined as:
a. a term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to
an unbalanced global economic system.
b. a theory that predicts that former colonies would progress along the same lines as the
industrialized nations.
c. a strategy by which wealthy nations would spur global economic growth by
alleviating poverty by investing in former colonies.
d. a critique that argued that despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic
relations in the global economy had not changed.
e. a continued pattern of unequal economic relations despite the formal end of colonial
political and military control.
An organization that advocates for members of local communities and against uneven
development and fights unfair state policies is referred to as a(n):
a. advocating agency.
b. civil society organization.
c. international aid society.
d. local support agency.
e. nonaligned charity.