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Cultural Anthropology Exam Review
Cultural Anthropology explores the diversity of human cultures, beliefs, practices, and social structures across the globe. The course introduces students to the key concepts, methods, and theories used by anthropologists to examine cultural norms, values, rituals, and worldviews. Topics include kinship, religion, language, gender roles, economic systems, and globalization. Students will also learn ethnographic research techniques and develop an understanding of cultural relativism and the impact of cultural differences on global issues.
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Cultural Anthropology 4th Canadian Edition by Barbara D. Miller
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Anthropology
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Q1) A sociological study and an anthropological study differ with regard to how often people in a Peruvian village share work on one another's plots of land.What would most likely account for this difference?
A) The sociologist had no training in cross-cultural analysis.
B) The people in the village lied to the sociologist.
C) The anthropologist lived in the village for a year,whereas the sociologist relied on a single questionnaire survey.
D) Sociologists and anthropologists collect different kinds of information.
Answer: C
Q2) Early Canadian anthropologists such as Marius Barbeau and Diamond Jenness were strong advocates for Aboriginal rights to religious and cultural freedom.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) All humans share a common ancestry with apes and monkeys.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Nature of Culture
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Q1) The term subculture refers to a weak,disorganized,and relatively unimportant culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which statement best characterizes popular culture in our society?
A) It is created by the entertainment industry.
B) It is a youth phenomenon.
C) It all originated from literature.
D) It is the music,dance,legends,food,games,and folk art of our everyday lives.
Answer: D
Q3) Which statement most accurately describes the social position of First Nations people in Canada in relation to the Canadian population as a whole?
A) They are non-Canadian citizens.
B) They are diverse and distinct subcultures.
C) They are distinct cultures within Canadian society.
D) They are incompletely integrated communities.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Beginnings of Human Culture
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Q1) Upper Paleolithic peoples all had characteristically modern-looking faces.To what can this be attributed?
A) speciation
B) colder climates,which generated increasing layers of fat on the cheeks
C) the development of cooking,which led to smaller teeth and jaws
D) migrant populations wiping out local groups
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is most true about the shift to meat-eating among hominins?
A) It led to more exploration of the environment.
B) It came about through male competition for resources.
C) It was aided by their being active during the night.
D) It led to skeletal shrinkage.
Answer: A
Q3) Which characteristic of Australopithecus was more like a human than an ape?
A) the gap present between lower canines and premolars
B) the brain-weight to body-weight ratio
C) a skeleton adapted to bipedal posture
D) a prominent sagittal crest
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Language and Communication
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Q1) What is kinesics best defined as?
A) the study of gendered communication
B) the description and analysis of body language
C) the objective investigation of sexual communication
D) the study of animal-human communication
Q2) The Quebec government periodically attempts to purge the French language of English influences such as le hamburger.What is this an example of?
A) linguistic aggression
B) linguistic isolationism
C) linguistic nationalism
D) ethnolinguistics
Q3) What is the term for the modern scientific study of all aspects of language?
A) glottochronology
B) phonology
C) linguistics
D) grammar
Q4) There are many dialects of Mandarin spoken in China.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain and critique the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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Chapter 5: Making a Living
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Q1) What evidence suggests that the woodland Ojibwa made a successful adaptation to a traditional Plains lifestyle while retaining valued elements of their own cultural heritage?
Q2) Of all the people who have ever lived,90 per cent have been foragers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ecosystem is a term for the complex relationship between the physical environment and the organisms living within it.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How was anthropologist Alan Kolata's knowledge of an ancient technology able to assist the Aymara with their modern agricultural problems? What has been the impact of his project on the quality of life of the Aymara?
Q5) The population density of foraging groups is usually considerably lower than what resources can support.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What are the characteristics of intensive mechanized agriculture,and what challenges does it present?
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Chapter 6: Economic Systems
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Q1) The concept of "conspicuous consumption" refers to the display of wealth for social prestige.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What distinguishes ritual food from ordinary food?
A) Ritual food nourishes the soul but not the body.
B) Ritual food lacks the nutrients of ordinary food.
C) Ritual food is considered sacred and symbolizes elements of one's religion.
D) Ritual food is consumed in a church,temple,or mosque on religious holidays.
Q3) In spite of access to Western money and education,Trobriand Islanders are still committed to yam cultivation and the production of women's wealth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is associated with the advent of agriculture?
A) an increase in river fishing
B) an elimination of most diseases
C) the appearance of ancient stone monuments
D) the disappearance of economic surpluses
Q5) Distinguish between market exchange and the marketplace.
Q6) Describe the working conditions and specialized skills of Afar salt miners.
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Chapter 7: Sex and Marriage
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Q1) In ancient Greece and in traditional China,what was a man doing when he married his father's brother's daughter?
A) keeping property within the single male line of descent
B) practising matrilateral parallel-cousin marriage
C) practising patrilateral cross-cousin marriage
D) repaying a social debt to his father
Q2) Which term applies to relatives who are related genetically (by blood)?
A) affinal
B) consanguineal
C) endogamous
D) nuclear
Q3) For Mormons,Muslims,and some Jews,polygamy is a component of religious practice.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Relationships between which relatives are usually NOT forbidden by incest taboos?
A) mothers and sons
B) brothers and sisters
C) first cousins
D) fathers and daughters
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Chapter 8: Family and Household
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Q1) What is the most common form of a same-sex family?
A) gay male adoptive families
B) lesbian stepfamilies
C) lesbian donor insemination families
D) gay male stepfamilies
Q2) How does the socialization of North American females to be both good mothers and supermothers conflict with the realities and limitation of motherhood?
Q3) Jack and Jill are getting married and must decide where to live.Because of working conditions and scarce resources,it is impossible for them to establish their own independent household.They move in with Jack's mother and father.Which type of residence is this an example of?
A) patrilocal
B) matrilocal
C) ambilocal
D) neolocal
Q4) The government support given to Canadian parents for raising their children includes emotional and physical assistance.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) Nancy is your cross-cousin.What does this mean?
A) She is your father's brother's daughter.
B) She is your mother's brother's daughter.
C) You are male.
D) You are female.
Q2) Micmac natives in Maine became embroiled in a dispute over the legitimacy of tribal membership that raised kinship issues.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Urban kinship networks in Canada tend to be voluntary.Which of the following terms also applies to them?
A) intimate
B) proximate
C) selective
D) impersonal
Q4) Many North American feminists are interested in the concept of matriarchy,sometimes linking or equating it to matrilineal descent systems.Does matrilineality imply matriarchy? Use concrete examples to discuss.
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Chapter 10: Social Stratification and Groupings
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Q1) Which of the following customs is most forbidden in the Hindu caste system in India?
A) exogamy
B) hereditary occupations
C) rituals of purity
D) dietary customs
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 group of businessmen plays golf at their club once a week
B) a working-class mobster may acquire wealth and appear to be a wealthy professional businessman
C) three women have lunch together in the Holt Renfrew restaurant every Tuesday and Thursday
D) a cabdriver stops at a Burger King to have a hamburger and to read the Toronto Sun
Q3) Being strong and healthy can be interpreted as a symbolic indicator of social class.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Political Organization and the Maintenance of Order
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of structural violence?
A) harm that people experience because of their position in society
B) high rates of fatal automobile accidents among young male drivers
C) police SWAT teams that intimidate violent protesters
D) any form of domestic family violence
Q2) What circumstances do the strongest social movements generally emerge from?
A) from issues of gender equality
B) from state-business conflict issues
C) from anti-capitalist issues
D) from contentious political issues
Q3) The term "sanctions" refers only to the enforcement of a formal,legal,abstract code of law.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How is social order in bands and tribes maintained?
A) public beatings
B) executions carried out by night
C) gossip and fear of supernatural forces
D) threats aimed at the wrongdoer's first-born child
Q5) How can we define "law" cross-culturally,without ethnocentrism?
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Chapter 12: Religion and the Supernatural
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Q1) Among food foragers,religion tends to be inseparable from daily life.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Some people explain why things go wrong by blaming certain individuals with the psychic ability to harm others.Which term refers to this kind of belief?
A) witchcraft
B) magic
C) divination
D) evil
Q3) How do plastic surgeons see themselves in their role of reconstructing female breasts?
A) as skilled surgeons working to minimize tissue damage
B) as production-line hacks churning out breast implants
C) as misguided surgeons who could put his talents to better purposes
D) as psychological healers and artists working to relieve women's suffering
Q4) In many religions,how are social transgressions often dealt with?
A) by a referral to the court and penal system
B) by direct discipline from church officials
C) by shunning from the church members
D) by retribution through supernatural agencie
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Chapter 13: The Arts
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Q1) Body art is an important aspect of many cultures and found all over the world.Describe at least two types of body art,provide examples,and explain why various cultures engage in such body art.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of pop art?
A) It is produced by ordinary people.
B) It is easy to acquire.
C) It is relatively inexpensive.
D) It has little intrinsic value.
Q3) The Dynamic Anthropology article,"Picturing Anthropology," discusses visual anthropology.What is one of the major problems with the use of photography across cultural boundaries?
A) Photos may be misinterpreted and convey ethnocentrism or cultural bias,just as with written sources.
B) Photos may convey an informal and less academic impression than written sources.
C) Photos may be seen as attempts to steal the subject's spirit and create hostility.
D) Photos are too easily modified or doctored to be accurate representations of people.
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Chapter 14: Anthropology at Work
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Q1) What did most applied anthropologists who supported the war effort do in the postwar peacetime era?
A) They continued on as government and military advisors helping to re-establish and rebuild European societies.
B) They returned to their academic pursuits throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
C) They joined security intelligence services of many Western nations to help ensure that war didn't happen again.
D) They put their efforts into fighting communism as part of the Cold War effort of the 1950s.
Q2) Why would applied anthropologists be helpful in conducting a detailed study of disability and access in postsecondary institutions?
A) because of the "tribal" nature of students with disabilities
B) because as participant-observers they can experience disability firsthand
C) because they could conduct surveys to ask students and service providers about specific challenges facing the disabled students and analyze these problems
D) because they would not rely on surveys and statistics as other social scientists might
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Chapter 15: Cultural Change and the Future of Humanity
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Q1) Historical evidence supports the idea that a one-world culture will eliminate conflict.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What has the demand by "developed" countries for such items as coffee,tea,chocolate,bananas,and beef led to?
A) Subsistence farmers have been forced off their land by huge cash-crop farms.
B) Food supplies in "underdeveloped" nations have increased.
C) Urban workers have returned to the land,where work is now available for them.
D) Pesticides,herbicides,and artificial fertilizers have fallen out of use.
Q3) The consequences of ethnocentrism are always negative.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The world's largest array of nutritious foods was originally developed by North American Aboriginal peoples.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most of the world's weapons of mass destruction are owned by China.
A)True
B)False
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