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Anthropology of Canada
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Anthropology of Canada explores the diverse cultures, histories, and social dynamics that shape Canadian society. The course examines Indigenous peoples and their relationships to land, tradition, and colonial state structures, as well as the impacts of migration, multiculturalism, and globalization on Canadian identities. Through ethnographic studies and critical analysis, students gain insight into contemporary issues such as language, gender, race, and regionalism, developing a nuanced understanding of Canadas complex social landscape from an anthropological perspective.
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Cultural Anthropology 4th Canadian Edition by Barbara D. Miller
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Anthropology
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Q1) Anthropological methodology based on immersion in a culture is now used as a research model in psychology,education,and geography.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following is the best description of an ethnologist?
A) someone who studies female behaviour as it is distinguished from male behaviour
B) someone who studies cultures of the past to indicate cultural progression over time
C) someone who develops a science of culture by comparing many specific cultures
D) someone who studies primitive cultures
Answer: C
Q3) All humans share a common ancestry with apes and monkeys.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Nature of Culture
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Q1) Which option best describes the role of culture?
A) Culture sets limits of behaviour and guides it along predictable paths.
B) Culture sets limits of behaviour and but is often unpredictable.
C) Culture sets limits of behaviour but biology accounts for the content of behaviour.
D) Culture sets limits of behaviour and society sets the limits of belief.
Answer: A
Q2) To say that culture is shared means that all members of a society behave in the same way.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) According to the International Centre for Prison Studies in the U.K. ,which nation has the highest number of prison inmates per capita in the world?
A) China
B) Russia
C) Iran
D) U.S.A.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: The Beginnings of Human Culture
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Q1) What form of subsistence has the Tanzanian government tried to convert the Hadzabe to?
A) settled farmers
B) settled pastoralists
C) settled horticulturalists
D) civilized wage labourers
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following learned behaviours has been observed among chimpanzees?
A) making tools by stripping branches to use as a "fishing rod" for termites
B) making simple clay pots to get water for drinking
C) an infant breaking open a birds nest to get eggs
D) wooden "spear" fishing
Answer: A
Q3) In most primate species,which group is at the core of the social system?
A) dominant males
B) mating pairs
C) females and their offspring
D) submissive females
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Language and Communication
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Q1) How does Black English stand in relation to Standard English?
A) It is a separate language from Standard English.
B) It is a substandard version of Standard English.
C) It is an original structured language.
D) It is a dialect of Standard English.
Q2) A Scottish butler in an English mansion says to the lady of the house,"You may wish to stay inside today,Madam;it's quite cold outside." But when he goes back to his own cottage,he is likely to say to his wife in broad Scots,"Shut the door and get inside,Maggie;you'll freeze your buns off." In linguistics,what is this an example of?
A) code switching
B) class consciousness
C) glottochronology
D) phonological analysis
Q3) Black English has discourse practices traceable to West African languages and a vibrant oral literature worthy of respect.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What problems have been encountered in attempting to understand the origins of language?
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Chapter 5: Making a Living
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Q1) Congregating in one season and dispersing in another is common among food foragers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Imagine that you are a craftsperson residing in the pre-industrial city of Tenochtitlán.Write a journal entry describing one day's sights and experiences in this vast and exciting city.
Q3) The importance of human ecological relationships is shown by the pig festivals among the Tsembaga of New Guinea.What purposes do those festivals serve?
A) They provide access to high-quality protein on marriage and funeral days.
B) They start wars between hostile groups and end them when one warrior has fallen.
C) They mark the end of hostilities and reduce the strain on food supplies.
D) They elect the most prestigious pig to be king and its owner to be queen.
Q4) Which of the following was true of the Aztec capital city in the 16th century?
A) It had a population greater than that of London.
B) Its economy was largely pastoral.
C) Its inhabitants belonged to a single clan.
D) Its economy was based on foraging.
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Chapter 6: Economic Systems
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Q1) Compare and contrast the different ideas about the nature and control of land that exists among food foragers,horticulturalists,pastoralists,intensive agriculturalists,and industrialists.
Q2) How is the wealth and vitality of a deceased Trobriand man's lineage measured?
A) by the value in cash of his house and all of his family's lands
B) by the number of sons he has
C) by the banana-leaf bundles and skirts distributed at his funeral
D) by the number of wives he had
Q3) Which of the following is an example of conspicuous consumption?
A) eating your lunch in front of strangers
B) buying fruit from a farm stand
C) buying sunglasses that display a designer logo
D) buying your mother a drink
Q4) The closure of Newfoundland's commercial fishing industry has led to out-migration that threatens the long-term viability of many communities.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the consequences of resource depletion for the people of Newfoundland.
Q6) Distinguish between market exchange and the marketplace.
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Chapter 7: Sex and Marriage
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Q1) Over 60 percent of first marriages in Canada end in divorce.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is common in many polygynous societies?
A) Junior wives try to dominate senior wives.
B) Wives must live outside the main household.
C) Wives and their children maintain separate household compounds.
D) Women are entirely economically dependent on their husbands' brothers' labour.
Q3) Which kin term applies to a group of people related by marriage?
A) nepotic
B) consanguineal
C) cogitative
D) affinal
Q4) Which of the following is characteristic of polyandry as practiced by the Tibetans?
A) There is frequently a shortage of men.
B) Polyandry helps to prevent the constant subdividing of farmlands among sons.
C) Polyandry increases the number of descendants a man will have.
D) Polyandry prevents the ratio of men to women from getting out of balance.
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Chapter 8: Family and Household
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Q1) Which term best describes a man who marries four women who are sisters?
A) avunculocal residence
B) sororal polygyny
C) fraternal polyandry
D) incest
Q2) In which sorts of societies is ambilocal residence found?
A) societies where males control property,but descent and inheritance is reckoned through women
B) societies where warfare is common,even though it is women who wield most of the authority
C) societies where economic activity occurs outside the family,and families have to move frequently in search of jobs
D) societies where the cooperation of more people than are available in one nuclear family is needed and nuclear family resources are limited in some way
Q3) Roman Catholic Tory Island fisherfolk living off the coast of Ireland share with the Nayar of 19th-century India a form of consanguineal family.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of kindreds?
A) Kindreds cease with the death of the ego.
B) Kindreds can be turned to for emotional support and financial aid.
C) Kindreds have a constant leader.
D) Kindreds act as ceremonial groups for rites of passage such as marriages.
Q2) Micmac natives in Maine became embroiled in a dispute over the legitimacy of tribal membership that raised kinship issues.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Lineages tend to be exogamous.What does that mean?
A) Female members may have more than one husband at a time.
B) Male members may have more than one wife at a time.
C) Members who marry lose their lineage membership.
D) Members must find their marriage partners in other lineages.
Q4) The term kinship refers to our consanguineal relatives but not our affinal relatives.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did kinship play a role in sorting out disputes over band membership of the Micmac of Maine?
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Chapter 10: Social Stratification and Groupings
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Q1) There are high levels of skilled workers immigrating to Canada,and our economy relies on such labour for its growth.What is the actual employment situation of skilled foreign workers?
A) Canada is easily able to replace its retired skilled workers with foreign workers.
B) There is full employment among skilled foreign workers.
C) Many skilled foreign workers in Canadian labour markets are unemployed.
D) Canadian-born skilled workers have been displaced from many workplaces by immigrant workers.
Q2) Describe the use of sex as a principle of social organization,using the Huron,Mundurucu,and traditional European society as contrasting examples.
Q3) In modern Canada,what percentage of all women will be sexually assaulted at some point in their life?
A) 10 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 40 percent
D) 50 percent
Q4) Describe the motive,means,and opportunity for the destruction of Africville.
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Chapter 11: Political Organization and the Maintenance of Order
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Q1) How did contemporary Slavey First Nations gain greater political autonomy and more control over their traditional lands?
A) They protested rulings made by the Supreme Court of Canada.
B) They allied themselves with other Dene peoples to form the Dene nation
C) They took a petition to the United Nations outlining their grievances.
D) They took their case to the World Court.
Q2) Among the Slavey,band members settled their own disputes for most serious offenses.What would happen to a guilty offender?
A) They might take the dispute to a tribunal of bands.
B) They might be banished from the band.
C) They may have to perform work duties.
D) They would have to pay compensation.
Q3) Which attribute of a state-as well as the scope of its legitimate use in regulating the affairs of its citizens-is a key factor in distinguishing one state from another?
A) kinship
B) force
C) chiefs
D) religion
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Chapter 12: Religion and the Supernatural
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Q1) How do plastic surgeons see themselves in their role of reconstructing female breasts?
A) as skilled surgeons working to minimize tissue damage
B) as production-line hacks churning out breast implants
C) as misguided surgeons who could put his talents to better purposes
D) as psychological healers and artists working to relieve women's suffering
Q2) Which statement is supported by the ongoing existence of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran,Jewish fundamentalism in Israel,and Christian fundamentalism in the United States?
A) Science and religious fundamentalism are quite compatible .
B) Liberal forms of these religions are in decline in all three cases.
C) Science is open to error and revision while religion remains eternal.
D) Religion is still a powerful and dynamic force in contemporary society.
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a psychological function of religion?
A) Singing hymns draws people together,increasing social solidarity.
B) Religious people pool their money to support good causes.
C) Religion explains how people should behave.
D) A Catholic person's guilt over sinning is erased after confession to a priest.
Q4) Define neo-paganism and describe and compare three neo-pagan religions.
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Chapter 13: The Arts
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Q1) Poetry is not found among the Bedouin because they consider it un-Islamic.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Foragers such as the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi do not have instruments on which to play music.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A poor,beautiful girl,downtrodden by her stepmother,receives supernatural aid to win the hand of a noble prince.Which basic element do all such stories share?
A) motif
B) synergy
C) narrative pivot
D) structure
Q4) Human appearance is a cultural construct as well as a biological creation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the issues surrounding funding for and censorship of the arts in Canada.
Q6) Discuss why it is important to protect the cultural heritages of tribal peoples.Why is it of concern to anthropologists?
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Chapter 14: Anthropology at Work
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Q1) What does the author see for the future of university academic jobs in anthropology in Canada?
A) He sees a steady growth in these positions because of applied anthropology.
B) He sees academic positions as remaining stable at least in the near future.
C) He sees academic positions diminishing as anthropology becomes more of an applied skill.
D) He sees academic positions as entirely unpredictable and at the whim of budgetary circumstances.
Q2) Which of the following disciplines involves anthropologists who are interested in preserving,displaying,maintaining,and understanding artifacts?
A) museum curation or museology
B) curatorial archaeology
C) ethnological preservation
D) culturology
Q3) Will the fields of academic anthropology and applied anthropology both thrive in the future? Provide some examples of how anthropology might change in years to come.
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Chapter 15: Cultural Change and the Future of Humanity
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Q1) Afro-American hip-hop music has had little success outside of North American culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the textbook,which of the following occurred in the years between 1945 and 1987?
A) As many as 16.3 million people were killed as a result of internal genocide.
B) More people were killed by war than by internal genocide.
C) Almost equal numbers of people were killed by internal genocide as by war.
D) Deaths due to war and genocide declined steadily.
Q3) Because of their commitment to global social justice,Canadian multinational corporations are very careful not to engage in any practices that would exploit people in developing nations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Inuit make up 70 percent of the 25,000 people who inhabit the 1.9 million square kilometres of eastern Arctic land.
A)True
B)False
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