Comparative Cultures Solved Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Comparative Cultures is an interdisciplinary course that explores the beliefs, practices, values, and social structures of various societies around the world. Through the examination of religion, language, art, customs, and institutions, students gain a deeper understanding of cultural similarities and differences. The course encourages critical thinking about cultural identity, global interconnections, and cultural change, fostering greater intercultural awareness and appreciation. By comparing distinct cultural frameworks, students learn to analyze the factors that shape lived experiences and worldviews, preparing them for meaningful engagement in an increasingly diverse and interconnected world.
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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) Three of the following statements made by Sterk in "Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS" are true.Which one is <b>not</b>?
A) It is wise to watch out for self-appointed "gatekeepers."
B) The best way to gain rapport is to show interest in informants and do things for them.
C) Talking with informants in groups often inhibits ethnographic discovery.
D) It is best to give informants some control over the interview.
Answer: C
Q2) In "Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas," Gmelch notes that American students often behave according to a principle called personal autonomy when they live among people in other societies.This means that
A) if they see what they believe is "truth," they can act without concern for what others think.
B) they should be able to have their own private space in which to live.
C) they can feel free to criticize local people.
D) if they don't like a local custom, they can ignore it.
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) When linguistic anthropologists search for minimal pairs of words from informants,they are most likely to be looking for A) morphemes.
B) metaphors.
C) phonemes.
D) sociolinguistic rules.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Ecology and Subsistence
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Q1) According to Part 3 of Conformity and Conflict,the relationship of an organism to other elements within its environmental sphere is called
A) ecology.
B) cultural ecology.
C) the cultural environment.
D) biointeraction.
Answer: A
Q2) Slash-and-burn agriculture would best be classified as which kind of the following adaptive strategies?
A) horticulture
B) agriculture
C) pastoralism
D) industrialism
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Economic Systems
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Q1) The first phase of the coal mining reclamation process is
A) blasting the large horizontal seam of coal in the ground.
B) removing and storing the delicate layer of topsoil.
C) picking up, moving, and dropping the overburden into an already excavated mine.
D) removing the coal from the ground with draglines, shovels, and haul trucks.
Q2) According to Cronk in "Reciprocity and the Power of Giving," the Kwakiutl potlatch is a good example of a way to
A) maintain equal social relationships between different clan members.
B) fight or flatten social rivals.
C) establish alliances between competing political factions.
D) create future material wealth for the giver.
Q3) Melissa,one of the subjects of Jessica Smith Rolston's essay "Women in the Mine," identifies herself as a A) tomboy.
B) bitch.
C) lady.
D) girly girl.
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Chapter 5: Kinship and Family
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Q1) A bilateral kinship group that is most like a lineage is called a A) family.
B) clan.
C) phratry.
D) ramage.
Q2) When a man is simultaneously married to two or more women,anthropologists call the arrangement
A) polygamy.
B) polygyny.
C) polyandry.
D) exogamy.
Q3) The custom of polyandry may end among Tibetans living in Nepal because A) women do not like the custom. B) men do not like the custom.
C) of government opposition and new economic opportunities.
D) of new techniques for reclaiming land to farm.
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Chapter 6: Roles and Inequality
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Q1) According to Rogozen-Soltar in "Becoming Muslim in Europe," the Spanish Inquisition was an effort to ensure a uniform religious and ethnic population in Spain.Over the course of several hundred years,__________ were forced to convert,or be killed or exiled.
A) Catholics
B) Muslims and Jews
C) Catholics and Jews
D) Catholics and Muslims
Q2) When the author first met María Martínez in 2006,she had married a Jordanian man and
A) planned to convert to Islam.
B) had given up wine, pork, and beer in preparation of converting to Islam.
C) had converted to Islam prior to marriage.
D) could not imagine a Spanish woman converting to Islam.
Q3) A society in which there is unequal access to prestige but equal access to economic resources is called a(n)
A) egalitarian society.
B) socially stratified society.
C) rank society.
D) class society.
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Chapter 7: Law and Politics
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Q1) As reported by Spradley and McCurdy in "Law and Order," anthropologist Laura Nader feels that in Ralu'a,there is a strong value on_________,which underlies the community's substantive and procedural law.
A) private property
B) religious piety
C) personal success
D) maintaining equilibrium
Q2) According to Nordstrom in "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story of Amputees," the United Nations worker equated __________ to the invisible center of gravity of the society.
A) women
B) men
C) informal economies
D) information banking systems
Q3) In Nigeria,power and authority derive from
A) ownership of landed property.
B) the ability to grant favors to loyal dependents.
C) a person's wealth.
D) a person's social class.
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Chapter 8: Religion, magic, and Worldview
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Q1) The cultural knowledge of the supernatural that people use to cope with the ultimate problems of human existence is called
A) personified supernatural power.
B) mana.
C) transcendental values.
D) religion.
Q2) As Mueller observes in "The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal," drumming is an important and overpowering part of the ndepp.A drummer walks around the crowd,interacting with the dancers,and playing a __________ with one stick and one hand.
A) tama
B) sabar
C) tam-tam
D) bakk
Q3) According to Dubisch in "Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage," the term liminality refers to
A) the emotional content of ritual.
B) a ritual period that is different from normal, everyday time.
C) the patterned, repetitive aspects of ritual.
D) the special social myths reenacted by ritual.
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Chapter 9: Globalization
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Q1) In "Village Walks," Guneratne and Bjork indicate which Nepalese ethnic group(s) the tour guides are most likely to come from:
A) Brahmin and Chhetri
B) Bhangi and Brahmin
C) Sherpas
D) Dolpa
Q2) According to Bestor in "How Sushi Went Global,"
A) globalization has meant homogenization. Sushi is no longer viewed as a Japanese entity worldwide.
B) in waters off of Seabrook, New Hampshire, bluefin tuna are trapped, fed by hand, then processed to meet the demand for sushi in Japan and around the world.
C) tuna's popularity in Japan has declined significantly in the past two decades.
D) the first appearance of tuna in Japanese literature was in the eighth-century collection of imperial court poetry called Man'yoshu.
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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," an anthropologist was hired to find out why customers of a utility company failed to reduce energy consumption,despite their claims that they were trying to conserve.He discovered that
A) customers were lying.
B) thermostats were faulty.
C) meters were faulty.
D) fathers turned down thermostats, other family members turned them up.
Q3) Alverson has seen the Tswana's belief that being alone is
A) a time to think.
B) a way to experience a religious experience.
C) a necessary part of resting.
D) a time for secrets.
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