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Anthropology of Globalization explores the complex ways in which global processes shape and are shaped by local cultures, economies, and societies. This course examines the movement of people, ideas, commodities, and technologies across borders, considering the effects of transnationalism, migration, and cultural hybridity. Students analyze case studies from different parts of the world to understand how globalization impacts identities, social structures, and cultural practices. Key themes include the role of media and communication, the transformation of work and livelihoods, issues of inequality and resistance, and the reconfiguration of tradition and modernity in a global context.
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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) An ethnologist can be described as someone who _______________.
A)studies female behavior
B)studies cultures of the past
C)develops a theory of culture by comparing many specific cultures
D)studies primitive cultures
E)studies urban-industrial societies
Answer: C
Q2) _______________ was a pioneer in using anthropology as an instrument to combat racism.
A)Franz Boas
B)Matilda Coxe Stevenson
C)William Haviland
D)Stephen Jay Gould
Answer: A
Q3) In Africa traditional healers typically outnumber modern medical advisors by a ratio of 100 to 1.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) Among the Kapauku Papuans of NEW Guinea,the fact that an attempt to eliminate warfare (which would create a balanced sex ratio)would affect the practice of polygyny,which would affect the economy (since women raise pigs,and the more wives a man has the more pigs he can keep),shows that culture is _______________.
A)materialistic
B)relative
C)pluralistic
D)integrated
E)enculturated
Answer: D
Q2) Though pastoral nomadic peoples are often blamed for causing environmental degradation,the fault is not theirs.Rather,it lies with _______________.
A)unrestricted development
B)a tremendous increase in tourism
C)the ever-burgeoning use of off road vehicles
D)governments that restrict their movements causing overgrazing
E)all of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Ethnographic Research: Its History, methods,
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Q1) "Studying up" means to study people who are in a higher educational bracket than the anthropologist doing the research.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A indigenous group which is surrounded and resettled by another dominant group is sometimes called an ___________________ _________________________.
A)internal colony
B)external colony
C)internal ethnicity
D)external ethnicity
E)innocent colony
Answer: A
Q3) Scientific theories are open to future challenges.
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) The australopithecine "Lucy" was discovered in _______________.
A)1946
B)1968
C)1974
D)1982
E)1996
Q2) Where did Jane Goodall begin her studies of chimpanzees?
A)Tai Rainforest
B)Gombe,Tanzania
C)Karisoke,Rwanda
D)Olduvai Gorge,Kenya
E)Tokyo,Japan
Q3) What is the most frequent type of reconciliation among chimpanzees?
A)embrace
B)mouth-to-mouth kiss
C)genito-genital rubbing
D)all of the above
E)a and b only
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Chapter 5: Language and Communication
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Q1) The system of communication using sounds and/or gestures is called
A)kinesics
B)language
C)speech
D)paralanguage
E)vocal qualifiers
Q2) _______________ is the cross-cultural study of humankind's perception and use of space.
A)Kinesics
B)Proxemics
C)Phonetics
D)Ethnography
E)Ethnology
Q3) Kinesics is a method for notating and analyzing _______________.
A)screaming
B)kissing
C)any form of body language.
D)fighting
E)food
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Chapter 6: Social Identity, personality, and Gender
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Q1) People who are born with reproductive organs,genitalia,and/or sex chromosomes that are not exclusively male or female are called _______________.
A)androgynous
B)berdache
C)castrati
D)transgenders
E)intersexuals
Q2) Margaret Mead's most famous book was Patterns of Culture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In traditional Ju/'hoansi society,fathers and mothers alike show great indulgence to children.A result of this indulgence is that the children
A)do not fear or respect men more than they do women
B)fear both parents equally
C)are spoiled and intolerant of other children
D)do not know how to show proper respect for their fathers
E)have to learn proper respect much later in life
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Chapter 7: Patterns of Subsistence
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Q1) The food forager's idea of territory contributes as much to ____________________ as it does to equal food distribution.
A)stagnation
B)failure to progress
C)genetic inferiority
D)economic equality
E)social equality
Q2) The red dye that the Mekranoti use for painting ornaments and people's bodies is
A)papaya
B)achiote
C)India ink
D)capybara
E)barbasco
Q3) City dwellers are only indirectly concerned with adapting to their natural environment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Economic Systems
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Q1) Kenya's first president was _______________,who was a trained anthropologist.
A)Franz Boas
B)Jomo Kenyatta
C)Idi Amin
D)Bashira Fox
E)George Washington
Q2) The concept that by obligation wealthier members of the community give to less wealthy members so that no one accumulates more wealth than anyone else is called
A)conspicuous consumption
B)generalized reciprocity
C)a leveling mechanism
D)silent trade
E)negative reciprocity
Q3) Jomo Kenyatta was Kenya's first president and was a trained anthropologist.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In most human societies,the basic cooperative unit is the household.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Sex, marriage, and Family
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Q1) There are no cultures that prescribe male-to-male sexual acts,for any reason.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Marriage to a patrilateral parallel-cousin (father's brother's daughter)serves to retain property within a single female line of descent.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When a mother says to her daughter,"I want you to go to college and meet someone who can support you in the style to which you are accustomed," she is conveying the idea that the daughter must marry someone outside of the immediate family-a concept of _______________.
A)exogamy
B)polyandry
C)endogamy
D)polygyny
E)levirate
Q4) Instinctive repulsion does not explain institutionalized incest.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) Today's technological advances pose new opportunities for kin-making.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Matrilineal descent groups are associated with farming societies in which _______________ are the breadwinners.
A)men
B)women
C)children
D)outsiders
E)grandfathers twice removed
Q3) Which of the following is not a form of descent?
A)bilateral
B)double
C)ambilineal
D)endogamy
E)unilineal
Q4) Patrilineal descent is sometimes known as agnatic descent.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Grouping by Gender, age, common Interest, and Class
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Q1) Division of labor along gender lines is common to all human societies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Symbolic indicators may not always be reliable in helping you assess someone's class status.Which of the following is an example of this?
A)A common form of recreation of low-class males is playing pool at the local beer joint.
B)A con man from a lower-class background wears a tuxedo when he tries to sell you shares in a nonexistent corporation.
C)According to Emily Post,one can always identify upper-crust families by the presence of a Day Maid.
D)Demille O'Hara,striving to return to the simplicity of life as lived by his tribal ancestors,lets his Day Maid go.
E)b and d
Q3) The eruv is a sacred Jewish ritual space.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Politics, power, and Violence
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Q1) By ______________________ Laura Nader has been able to successfully take on the specialists in the field of law,children's issues,and science,challenging them to critically question their basic assumptions under which they operate.
A)political and cultural configuration
B)confrontation
C)using Crow negotiating techniques
D)Studying-up
E)political activism
Q2) The tonowi (Big Man)of the Kapauku of New Guinea acquires political power by _______________.
A)being generous
B)being a good talker
C)being wealthy
D)being a male
E)all of the above
Q3) Since their appearance some 5,000 years ago,states have proven to be stable political systems.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Spirituality, religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of animism?
A)a lucky baseball bat
B)the goddess Athena in Greek mythology
C)the god Zeus
D)an ancestral spirit
E)the malevolent spirit inside your baseball who jumps erratically through the air just as you think you're about to hit a home run
Q2) Anthropology examines spirituality and religion in terms of the society's ______________________.
A)traditions
B)expectations
C)worldview
D)belief systems
E)sacred places
Q3) Chan monastics are in the country of _______________.
A)Thailand
B)India
C)Nepal
D)United States
E)Taiwan
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Chapter 14: The Arts
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Q1) Music gives basic human ideas a _________________ form,which makes it memorable and attractive which is usable by the culture to promote ideas and understandings.
A)memorable
B)useful
C)concrete
D)native
E)preserved
Q2) Long legends called epics are usually found in preliterate societies with a form of _______________ political organization.
A)band
B)tribe
C)chiefdom
D)state
E)kinship
Q3) Almost anything humans can lay their hands on can become an object of artistic expression-skin,hair,dress,dwellings,vehicles,weapons,utensils,etc.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Processes of Change
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Q1) Eric Wolf helped expose counter-insurgency use of anthropological research in Southeast Asia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Corn originated in _____________________.
A)Brazil
B)North America
C)Italy
D)Zimbabwe
E)Mexico
Q3) Carol Jenkins received a MacArthur Foundation grant in order to study the emergence of new diseases in _______________.
A)United States
B)Senegal
C)Brazil
D)Norway
E)Papua New Guinea
Q4) Air travel increases the spread of disease.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Global Challenges local Responses and the
Role of Anthropology
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Q1) To help resolve problems of global structural violence which of the following values and cultural motivations would be needed?
A)a worldview that sees humanity as part of the natural world,rather than superior to it
B)a sense of social responsibility that recognizes that no individual,people,or state has the right to expropriate resources at the expense of others
C)an awareness of how important supportive ties are for individuals,such as seen in kinship or other associations in the world's traditional societies
D)an emphasis on self-interest
E)all but d
Q2) The world is clearly moving toward a single global culture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Cosmetic surgery in the United States can be seen as necessary to the patient's psychological health.
A)True
B)False
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