Comparative Cultures
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Comparative Cultures explores the diverse social, religious, artistic, and political traditions that shape societies around the globe. Through the study of cultural patterns, values, and practices, students gain a deeper understanding of how different communities address universal aspects of human experience such as family, community, authority, expression, and belief. The course employs a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on anthropology, history, and sociology to compare and contrast civilizations across time and place, fostering an appreciation for cultural diversity and global interconnections.
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Conformity and Conflict 15th Edition by James W. Spradley Late
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Chapter 1: Culture and Ethnography
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Q1) Which one of the following is an observation that Sterk makes in "Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS" about "gatekeepers"? They
A) are not a vital part of fieldwork.
B) are important in gaining initial access to a scene.
C) may become more important to a study as time goes on.
D) tend to be individuals who exist on the periphery of a scene.
Answer: B
Q2) According to Sterk,about __________ percent of the prostitutes she interviewed were not drug addicts.
A) 10
B) 25
C) 40
D) 15
Answer: B
Q3) The view that all people see and understand the world in the same way is called
A) naive realism.
B) culture shock.
C) ethnocentrism.
D) detached observation.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Language and Communication
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Q1) When the Tiv informed Laura Bohannan that she must be wrong about Hamlet's father's ghost because the dead cannot talk,they displayed what anthropologists call
A) culture shock.
B) naive realism.
C) tacit culture.
D) cross-cultural solidarity.
Answer: B
Q2) According to Tannen in "Conversation Style: Talking on the Job," which is<b> not </b>an advantage cited by men for refraining from asking questions?
A) They avoid receiving incorrect information.
B) They learn to discover answers for themselves.
C) They can feel superior to other people by not showing their ignorance.
D) They avoid injuring the feelings of the individual sharing information.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Ecology and Subsistence
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Q1) According to Richard Lee,in 1963 !Kung men
A) supplied between 20 and 40 percent of the calories consumed by members of a camp.
B) hunted almost every day to bag sufficient food for people's daily needs.
C) collected approximately 70 percent of the edible vegetable foods.
D) began hunting regularly before they were 10 years old.
Answer: A
Q2) According to Crate,the detailed and specific observations of people like the Viliui Sakha
A) are important only to the people of northeastern Siberia.
B) are not relevant to the global community and should not inform policy initiatives.
C) contribute important information about the local effects of global climate change.
D) demonstrate that global climate change is not affecting the Republic of Sakha.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Economic Systems
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Q1) In "Reciprocity and the Power of Giving," Cronk,reporting on a study by Grace Goodell,notes that monetary support of an irrigation project by the _________ served to __________ in Iran.
A) U.S., support local level political organizations
B) World Bank, support local level political organizations
C) U.S., crush local level political organizations
D) World Bank, crush local-level political organizations
Q2) According to Bourgois in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," as reported in the 1990 census,
A) 78.4 percent of the women living in New York's Spanish Harlem received public assistance.
B) 48.3 percent of men living in Spanish Harlem were "officially employed."
C) more than half the Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem sell crack cocaine.
D) 42.4 percent of Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem have fathered children with women to whom they are not married.
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Chapter 5: Kinship and Family
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Q1) According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," poor Brazilian mothers living in a shantytown near the town of Bom Jesus de Mata
A) would do almost anything to earn money in order to pay for the treatment of their sick babies.
B) stayed emotionally detached from their babies, particularly those they felt were likely to die.
C) depended for child support on the local churches and civil authorities.
D) observed nearly a year of formal mourning when a child died, during which time they were not allowed to dance or laugh in public.
Q2) When it is preferred that a woman marry a man from her own village,we call the arrangement
A) polygyny.
B) exogamy.
C) endogamy.
D) polyandry.
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Chapter 6: Roles and Inequality
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Q1) According to Fish in "Mixed Blood," the striking contrast between the very tall Masai and The stature of the very short Pygmies,both of Africa,is representative of A) race.
B) folk taxonomy.
C) hypo-descent.
D) human biological variety.
Q2) If a friend were to say,"He's the president of the college," the term "president" would refer to a A) status.
B) role.
C) social situation.
D) social relationship.
Q3) Time,place,and objects are significant markers of A) social groups.
B) social networks.
C) roles.
D) social situations.
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Chapter 7: Law and Politics
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Q1) According to Nordstrom in "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story of Amputees," the first step in the informal economy formed by marginalized women in Muleque is
A) making products to sell at a small marketplace.
B) investment in a woman's informal bank.
C) hard labor.
D) begging.
Q2) According to Sutherland in "The Case of an American Gypsy," Gypsies find which of the following things polluting (marime)?
A) relatives from other vitsas
B) non-Gypsies
C) Social Security benefits
D) driving cars
Q3) When disputes are settled through a community meet-ing that provides for an informal airing of the conflict,we term this kind of settlement process
A) an ordeal.
B) a court.
C) a moot.
D) a contest.
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Chapter 8: Religion, magic, and Worldview
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Q1) When a religious specialist reads the cracks in the burned scapula (shoulder blade) of a sheep to predict future events,the act would be called A) divination.
B) sorcery.
C) magic.
D) witchcraft.
Q2) Magic,according to Malinowski,occurs in response to A) anger.
B) frustration.
C) anxiety.
D) social pressure.
Q3) In "The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal," Mueller notes that the Lébou recognize several different kinds of rab; only the __________ are the type that attach themselves to humans in a troublesome way.
A) Kumba Bang
B) Lumbay
C) Diop
D) Faru rab
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Chapter 9: Globalization
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Q1) The economic incorporation of different parts of the world into a system based on capitalism,<b>not </b>politics,defines
A) world system.
B) cultural diffusion.
C) cultural hybridization.
D) multiculturalism.
Q2) People who flee their country of origin because they share a well-founded fear of persecution are called A) tourists.
B) immigrants.
C) stateless persons.
D) refugees.
Q3) In "Nuer Refugees in America," Shandy notes that a peace agreement signed in __________ ended the North-South war in Sudan,and South Sudan gained its independence in __________.
A) 1983, 2005
B) 2011, 2014
C) 1996, 2011
D) 2005, 2011
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Chapter 10: Using and Doing Anthropology
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Q1) In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that the UDLP project to teach women how to raise and care for goats,and to incorporate milk into their children's food,was
A) flatly rejected by the village leaders.
B) so popular that it quickly had more participants than it could accommodate.
C) too difficult for the women of the villages to undertake.
D) failed due to the theft of goats by people in other villages.
Q2) According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," the first thing a new manager at UTC did after assuming a new position was to
A) shrink-wrap books in the warehouse.
B) ask warehouse workers, customer outlet staff, and other employees about problems and procedures.
C) ask previous warehouse managers for advice.
D) change the counting and shipping procedures in the warehouse.
Q3) In "Advice for Developers," Alverson observes that the Tswana see time as A) lineal.
B) connected to events. Time happens when events happen.
C) a non-concept. The Tswana do not think in terms of time.
D) measured by a cycle of ritual occasions.
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