Anthropology of Globalization Exam
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Course Introduction
Anthropology of Globalization explores how global processes including economic, cultural, political, and technological changes shape and are shaped by local communities and identities around the world. Through ethnographic case studies and theoretical readings, the course examines the transformative effects of globalization on everyday life, the negotiation of cultural boundaries, the emergence of transnational networks, and the impact of global flows on issues such as migration, development, inequality, and resistance. Students will gain an understanding of how anthropologists analyze complex global interconnections and the ways in which people adapt to and contest the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing world.
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Cultural Anthropology The Human Challenge 13th Edition by William A. Haviland
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Chapter 1: The Essence of Anthropology
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Q1) Cross-cultural studies show that in many non-Western cultures "co-sleeping" (infant sleeps with mother)is the rule.Which of the following are benefits of mother and infant co-sleeping?
A)infants nurse more often
B)infants receive more stimuli
C)infants are less susceptible to infant death syndrome
D)mother gets at least as much sleep as mothers who do not sleep with infants
E)all of these are benefits of mother and infant co-sleeping
Answer: E
Q2) The anthropologists who focus on humans as biological organisms,tracing their evolutionary development and looking at biological variations within the species,past and present are known as _______________.
A)archaeologists
B)linguistic anthropologists
C)biologists
D)physical anthropologists
E)forensic anthropologists
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) In the United States people are not regarded as adults until the age of 18;in many other cultures,adulthood begins earlier.In many cases,it is not associated so much with age as it is to _______________.
A)passage through certain prescribed rituals
B)recitation of various religious sayings
C)biological changes
D)the acceptance of NEW obligations
E)the passing of difficult examinations
Answer: A
Q2) Cultural adaptation is depended upon more today as a complex set of ideas,technologies,and activities which allow a culture to survive.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Gender,in cultural anthropology,refers to cultural elaborations and meanings assigned to the biological differentiation between sexes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Ethnographic Research: Its History, methods, and
Theories
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Q1) All of the following provided data on foreign countries for the purpose of "culture-at-a-distance" studies except _______________.
A)popular films
B)photographs
C)literature
D)telephone conversations
E)NEWspapers
Answer: D
Q2) Anthropologists usually find surveys to be _________________________________.
A)very helpful
B)good for discovering NEW things
C)qualitative data producing
D)not very useful
E)excellent for finding NEW data
Answer: D
Q3) Multi-sited ethnography makes use of various interdisciplinary approaches to research and analysis.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Becoming Human: the Origin and Diversity of Our Species
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Q1) Race is not a valid biological category.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The shift from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens occurred within the ________________.
A)Pliocene
B)Oligocene
C)Miocene
D)Eocene
E)Pleistocene
Q3) Which of the following is not a true statement?
A)A biped can see more effectively than a quadruped.
B)A biped has less body area exposed to direct sunlight than a quadruped.
C)A biped can use its hands to carry objects,including weapons.
D)A biped runs faster than a quadruped.
E)None of the above is a true statement.
Q4) Adult bonobos frequently use genito-genital rubbing as a means of reconciliation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Language and Communication
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Q1) The entire formal structure of a language consisting of all observations about its meaningful units of sounds and the rules or principles of making phrases and sentences is called its _______________.
A)syntax
B)form classes
C)morphology
D)phonology
E)grammar
Q2) The study of abstract rules that guide the sound patterns of a language is called _______________.
A)phonetics
B)phonology
C)syntax
D)morphology
E)substitution frames
Q3) Glottochronology assumes that the rate at which a language's core vocabulary changes is variable and thus cannot be used to give an exact date for when two languages diverged.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Social Identity, personality, and Gender
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Q1) Clearly,the biological capacity for what we think of as humanhood,which entails culture,must be nurtured to be realized.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _______________________________ fosters self-reliance rather than group-reliance.
A)Enculturation training
B)Independence training
C)Dependence training
D)Transference training
E)Community training
Q3) What is considered "normal" in a society is defined by culture.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One of the pioneers of anthropology is _______________.
A)Nancy Scheper-Hughes
B)Catherine Bateson
C)Mary Douglas
D)Margaret Mead
E)Ruth Benedict
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Chapter 7: Patterns of Subsistence
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Q1) Among food foragers,wealth is a sign of deviance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Pastoralists are like food foragers in that _______________.
A)both have some members of the group who remain behind to protect the camp
B)both live in areas that are marginal,that is,in areas where land is not suitable for farming
C)both count on flexibility to get the game they hunt
D)neither ever engages in horticulture
E)males are extremely aggressive
Q3) To say that food foraging societies are egalitarian means that _______________.
A)there are no status differences
B)the only status differences are age and sex
C)everyone is equal except women
D)men are usually subordinate to women
E)children are the center of community life
Q4) Food-sharing as a cultural tradition seems to be related to the shift to more frequent meat eating among genus Homo.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Economic Systems
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Q1) The administration of the _______________ was one of the most efficient the world has ever known,both in the collection of taxes and methods of control.
A)Inca empire in Peru
B)Aztec empire in Mexico
C)Persian empire in Mesopotamia
D)Mongol empire in Asia and Asia Minor
E)Ottoman empire in the Near East
Q2) ?Market exchange is defined as the exchange of goods through face-to-face bargaining in a market place.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Food producers have less craft specialization than food foragers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Kula ring used to involve thousands of men but no longer functions today. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Sex, marriage, and Family
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Q1) Detailed census records made in Roman Egypt show that brother-sister marriages among members of the non-royal farming class were common.What light does this shed on the incest taboo?
A)It proves that there is a biological basis for avoidance of inbreeding among humans.
B)It proves that incest is committed only among royalty.
C)It demonstrates that despite the human tendency to avoid inbreeding,it occasionally occurs and may even be preferred.
D)It supports Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the universality of the Oedipus complex.
E)It shows that humans are no different from chimpanzees.
Q2) Today,a dowry is expected by law in India.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A household composed of married people contains _______________ kin.
A)affinal
B)consanguineal
C)endogamous
D)nuclear
E)instinctive
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Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) _____________________ is a network of relatives within which individuals possess certain mutual rights and obligations.
A)Kinship
B)Descent
C)Unilineal descent
D)Matrilineal descent
E)Patrilineal descent
Q2) _______________ are frequently found in industrial societies such as that of the United States,where mobility weakens contact with relatives.
A)Phratries
B)Lineages
C)Kindreds
D)Moieties
E)Classes
Q3) Turkish culture has an honor-and-shame tradition.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Grouping by Gender, age, common Interest, and Class
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Q1) Kinds of policy research frequently done by anthropologists are _______________.
A)needs assessments
B)ethnography
C)participant observation
D)social impact assessments
E)a and d
Q2) You are a member of a Ju/'hoansi hunter-gatherer band.Which of the following statements demonstrates that you belong to an egalitarian society as opposed to a stratified society?
A)Your father is a poor hunter.
B)You are a poor hunter.
C)Even though you are a poor hunter,you have as much right to receive food from your fellow band members as a good hunter does.
D)Because your father is a poor hunter,your hunting ability is nipped in the bud and not allowed to develop because you are not given access to the knowledge and training required to develop this ability.
E)All of the above.
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Chapter 12: Politics, power, and Violence
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Q1) At the heart of political organization is _______________.
A)control of unacceptable social behavior
B)the legitimate use of force to maintain order
C)unequal access to power
D)the dominance of males over females
E)the development of egalitarian relationships
Q2) Which of the following would cause an invoking of informal sanctions against an individual in a restaurant in the United States?
A)tearing up tables and chairs
B)fighting
C)threatening customers
D)stealing food
E)going barefoot
Q3) Relationships among members of a chiefdom are egalitarian.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "Crimes against humanity" has been adopted by most countries in order to prosecute mass murder.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Spirituality, religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) Which of the following illustrate the psychological functions of religion?
A)Among the Holy Ghost People of the United States,handling snakes and drinking strychnine is a common feature of their worship;one explanation of this behavior is that by confronting the possibility of death,they achieve a sense of awe and transcendence.
B)An Islamic judge who orders the hand of a thief cut off can sleep soundly at night because he thinks of himself as merely the agent of divinely inspired justice.
C)The Tewa Indian origin myth provides every Tewa with a sense of his place in an orderly universe.
D)A Catholic person's guilt for committing certain acts is assuaged after confession to a priest.
E)All of the above
Q2) The nineteenth-century prediction that religion would decline and ultimately disappear as science became more prominent has been shown to be correct.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Arts
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Q1) An art form that has developed recently is tattooing.It involves the puncturing and coloring of human skin with symbolic designs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A cultural art form which is emblematic of the Micmac stubborn desire for self-determination is their _____________________.This also played a key role in their success of the band's Native rights case.
A)clay pots
B)rock paintings
C)dance forms
D)basketry
E)beaded clothing
Q3) Whether beneficial or unbeneficial,all art is an expression of _______________.
A)the innate need to be impractical
B)a fundamental human capacity for religious expression
C)state-level societies that can afford specialists
D)political domination of minorities by elites
E)the symbolic representation of form and the expression of feeling that constitutes the creative imagination
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Chapter 15: Processes of Change
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Q1) _______________ did extensive research on peasants and also worked tirelessly to promote ethics in anthropological research.
A)Eric Wolf
B)Bronislaw Malinowski
C)Federica de Laguna
D)Clifford Geertz
E)Raymond Firth
Q2) Conservative ______________________ of North America are a good example of a faith-based community that resists change.
A)Mennonites
B)Christians
C)Mayans
D)Asians
E)Indians of the Americas
Q3) Air travel increases the spread of disease.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Global Challenges local Responses and the
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Q1) Anthropologists typically expect that distinctive ________________________ will persist into the future,even though there continue to be massive changes facing the world today.
A)languages
B)governments
C)worldviews
D)religions
E)all of the above
Q2) In our current world,where powerful states have dominated or destroyed many smaller nations,____________________________ is a global ritual that celebrates peace in a friendly rivalry.
A)All-nation ritual war games
B)the Commonwealth Games
C)The World Cup soccer match
D)the United Nations committee on peace
E)the Olympic Games
Q3) Historical evidence supports the idea that a global culture will eliminate conflict.
A)True
B)False
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