Cross-Cultural Communication
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Course Introduction
Cross-Cultural Communication explores how people from different cultural backgrounds communicate, interact, and perceive messages in various contexts. The course examines theories and frameworks related to culture, verbal and nonverbal communication styles, and the impact of cultural values, norms, and beliefs on interpersonal and organizational interactions. Students will analyze real-world case studies, learn about barriers to effective communication, and develop practical skills for navigating misunderstandings and building successful relationships in diverse cultural environments. This course prepares students to approach global challenges and multicultural settings with greater awareness, sensitivity, and competence.
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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) What is "transplant tourism"?
A)migration from developing countries to Western societies
B)a study of communities of retired persons living outside of the United States
C)agricultural development in industrialized nations
D)travel connected with the buying and selling of human organs
E)the study of immigrants in long-established communities
Answer: D
Q2) Reconstructing the evolution of the big toe to determine at what time humans began to walk would be a research project for which of the following type of anthropologists?
A)Linguistic
B)Physical
C)Forensic
D)Applied
E)Ethnographer
Answer: B
Q3) Organ transplantation involves both biological and social systems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) Which of the following statements about society and culture is incorrect?
A)Culture can exist without a society.
B)Every culture is learned,shared,based on symbols,integrated,and dynamic.
C)All culture is learned rather than biologically inherited.
D)A culture is shared by the members of a society.
E)Although members of a society may share a culture,their behavior is not uniform.
Answer: A
Q2) A pluralistic society always has subcultural variation,but not every society with subcultural variation is pluralistic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A society's economic base is part of the superstructure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Ethnographic Research: Its History, methods, and
Theories
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Q1) Scientific theories are open to future challenges.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Gregory Bateson was trained by Alfred C.Haddon,who is credited with being the first anthropologist to _______________.
A)use key consultants
B)interview locals in their own language
C)do participant observations
D)map maps of an area
E)use ethnographic film
Answer: E
Q3) Which anthropologist was the first to carry out an advocacy project within a North American Indian community?
A)Julian Steward
B)Bronislaw Malinowski
C)Margaret Mead
D)Sol Tax
E)Franz Boas
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Becoming Human: the Origin and Diversity of Our Species
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Q1) Adult bonobos frequently use genito-genital rubbing as a means of reconciliation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Race is not a valid biological category.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The concept of race is ____________________ .
A)exclusive
B)expressive
C)arbitrary
D)scientific
E)proven
Q4) Among bonobos,which of the following bonds is the most significant to predicting rank and success within the group?
A)between male peers
B)between siblings
C)between father and son
D)between mother and son
E)between offspring and grandparents
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Chapter 5: Language and Communication
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Q1) Wampum belts were used to convey a variety of messages through the use of symbols.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The American anthropologist Edward Sapir had formulated the problem and his student,Benjamin Whorf,drawing on his experience with the language of the Hopi Indians,developed a full-fledged theory now known as the theory of
A)cultural relativity
B)linguistic relativity
C)code switching
D)linguistic nationalism
E)phenomenology
Q3) Human culture as we know it could have easily existed without language.
A)True
B)False
Q4) It takes many years of practice for people to master the muscular movements needed to produce the precise sounds of any particular language.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Social Identity, personality, and Gender
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Q1) In Western countries,a culture-bound psychological disorder known as _______________ occurs most frequently among young women in which a preoccupation with thinness produces a refusal to eat.
A)pibloktoq
B)amok
C)anorexia nervosa
D)bulumia
E)latah
Q2) Although the study of national character has been severely criticized,some anthropologists have argued that there is a new urgency to such studies because we need to know what motivates the decision makers in modern nations.An important leader in this area today is Francis Hsu who suggests that we use the concept of
A)configurations
B)core values
C)cultural themes
D)basic personality structure
E)modal personality
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Chapter 7: Patterns of Subsistence
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Q1) In the Americas,the crop complex adapted to drier upland areas was _______________.
A)wheat,barley,flax,rye,millet
B)rice,yam,taro
C)maize,beans,squash
D)manioc
E)rhubarb
Q2) An important characteristic of the food-foraging society is its _______________.
A)competitiveness
B)egalitarianism
C)aggressiveness
D)flamboyance
E)permanent settlements
Q3) Some anthropologists refer to food foragers as "the original affluent society" because _______________.
A)they manage to accumulate a lot of wealth
B)they occupy the most attractive environments with abundant food supply
C)they live in marginal areas and are very poor
D)they earn a good wage for all the hours of work they put in each week
E)they work an average of 20 hours a week for a comfortable,healthy life
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Chapter 8: Economic Systems
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Q1) The function of the Kula Ring is to trade food and clothing for profit.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Afar people of Ethiopia specialize in _______________.
A)mining gold
B)mining salt
C)mining coal
D)extracting minerals from sea water
E)sculpting quartz
Q3) In most human societies,the basic cooperative unit is the household.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cacao is a species of coconut tree used in potlatch exchanges.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Raw materials,labor,and technology are productive resources used by all societies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Sex, marriage, and Family
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Q1) Family members related through marriage have a/an _______________ relationship.
A)consanguineal
B)incestuous
C)affinal
D)endogamous
E)nuclear
Q2) People tend to want the same things in marriage,whether it is in India or America.
A)True
B)False
Q3) True _______________ marriage,in which multiple men and women have sexual access to one another,rarely occurs in the various societies around the world.
A)Monogamous
B)Serial monogamous
C)Group
D)Communal
E)Mixed
Q4) Marriage by proxy is also called fictive marriage.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) The word "moiety" comes from the French word for _______________,and exists when a society is divided into two and only two major descent groups.
A)melon
B)half
C)mote
D)whole
E)model
Q2) Matrilineal descent is found in South Asia,in India,Sri Lanka,Indonesia,Sumatra,Tibet,South China,many Indonesian islands,as well as in aboriginal North America and Africa.What do all of these societies have in common?
A)They practice horticulture,in which women are the breadwinners.
B)They practice male infanticide,thus producing an excess of women.
C)Warfare is conducted primarily by women.
D)Major political decisions are made by women.
E)Women are physically stronger than men.
Q3) a practice of ritual adoption is called god-parenthood is practiced in many parts of Europe and beyond.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Grouping by Gender, age, common Interest, and Class
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Q1) At the top of the caste system in India is the _______________ caste.
A)Carmars
B)Bhangis
C)Brahmans
D)Nai
E)Eta
Q2) The _______________ is perhaps the world's longest surviving social hierarchy;it encompasses a complex ranking of social groups on the basis of ritual purity.
A)American social system
B)Japanese caste system
C)English system of royalty
D)Hindu caste system
E)Buddhist caste system
Q3) Being strong and healthy can be interpreted as a symbolic indicator of social class.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Politics, power, and Violence
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Q1) How is social order maintained in bands and tribes?
A)public beatings
B)murder carried on under cover of darkness
C)occasional use of police and the court system
D)threats of killing the first-born child
E)gossip and fear of supernatural forces
Q2) A chief can expect his authority to remain unchallenged during his lifetime,unlike the tonowi who is in constant danger of being thrown down from his pedestal.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
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Chapter 13: Spirituality, religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) _______________ magic is based on the assumption that things that are like each other somehow have a connection with each other;and thus if you do something to one,it will affect the other.
A)Scientific
B)Pseudo-
C)Imitative
D)Compulsive
E)Contagious
Q2) The shaman has a relationship with the patient and the community.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ju/'hoansi healers possess the powerful healing force called n/um.N/um generally remains dormant in a healer until an effort is made to activate.Among the ways to activate n/um are _______________.
A)solo singing
B)trance dance
C)medicinal curing ceremony
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
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Chapter 14: The Arts
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Q1) _______________ crescent moon affirms that country's group solidarity and identity beyond kinship lines.
A)Turkey's
B)Lebanon's
C)Indonesia's
D)Afghanistan's
E)India's
Q2) To perceive the real meaning of religious Christian art,the anthropologist must know something of the beliefs of _________________________.
A)Christianity
B)the Western culture in which it was produced
C)the culture in which it was produced
D)ancient Hebrew cultural manifestations
E)all of the above
Q3) The art of the Northwest Coast Indians often portrays actual animals depicted in a naturalistic style.The animals are so real looking it is easy to identify them.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Processes of Change
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Q1) An excellent example of diffusion is the adoption of the _____________________,across multiple language barriers and cultural barriers.
A)maize porridge
B)democracy
C)metric system
D)British pound as currency
E)paper money
Q2) In biblical times,chariots and carts were widespread in the Middle East,but by the 6th century,the old Roman roads had deteriorated so much that wheeled vehicles were replaced by camels.This illustrates that the processes of change is sometimes due to
A)primary invention
B)secondary invention
C)diffusion
D)revitalization
E)cultural loss
Q3) Happily,ethnocide no longer occurs due to innovative technology.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Global Challenges local Responses and the
Role of Anthropology
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Q1) Global corporations such as CNN seek to _______________.
A)report news
B)stress certain visual imagery
C)determine what to repress
D)influence public perception and action
E)all of the above
Q2) The term "replacement reproduction" means that people produce no more offspring than necessary to replace themselves when they die.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _______________________________ refers to the cooptive power that forces others into compliance through attraction and persuasion.
A)Soft power
B)Structural power
C)Hard power
D)Ideoscape
E)Globalizational power
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