Cultural Anthropology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Cultural Anthropology explores the diverse ways in which humans understand and shape their social worlds. This course examines the beliefs, practices, values, and social institutions of various cultures through ethnographic research and comparative analysis. Students will engage with concepts such as kinship, religion, gender, language, economy, and identity to better appreciate the complexity and adaptability of human societies. Through readings, discussions, and case studies, the course fosters critical thinking about cultural differences and similarities, challenging ethnocentric perspectives and encouraging an understanding of globalization and cultural change.
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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) Richard Lee noted that the foragers of the Botswana had a 75 to 90 percent lower rate of AIDS than the national average.Which set of factors likely account for this?
A) antiretroviral drugs,more clinics in the area,and a low sex drive among men
B) the absence of homosexuality,intravenous drug use,and prostitution
C) physical isolation,women's empowerment,and common sense about sex and risk
D) good dietary practice and herbal medication to ward off infection
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following Canadian anthropologists is fluent in several First Nations languages and is also an expert on the history of anthropology?
A) Richard Lee
B) Bruce Trigger
C) Edward Sapir
D) Regna Darnell
Answer: D
Q3) Franz Boas was an empiricist who promoted cultural relativism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Nature of Culture
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Q1) Anthropologists in the field are unlikely to experience culture shock because they are taught the strategies to avoid it.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) According to the text,what finding did Statistics Canada report in 2004?
A) The family incomes of immigrants were considerably lower than for Canadian citizens.
B) Immigrants applying for jobs were more likely to be hired than Canadian citizens.
C) Immigrant women are reluctant to take English or French language courses,even when offered low-cost childcare.
D) Qualified immigrants have an easy time finding work as engineers.
Answer: A
Q3) Annette Weiner agrees that ethnographic writing can never be more than a fictional account of cultural behaviour.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Beginnings of Human Culture
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Q1) If you were to visit a primate group in the wild,which type of activity would you be most likely to see?
A) sex
B) grooming
C) adult play
D) territorial defence
Answer: B
Q2) The earliest stone tools are found in association with Homo habilis.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which statement best describes australopithecine teeth?
A) They were more ape-like than human-like.
B) They have large front canine teeth.
C) They lack grinding molars.
D) They were more human-like than ape-like.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Language and Communication
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Q1) What are the parts of speech or categories of words that work the same way in any sentence called?
A) morphemes
B) frame classes
C) nominatives
D) lexicons
Q2) Linguists elicit groups or combinations of sounds that are used to convey information.What is the term for these meaningful units?
A) phonemes
B) vocal frames
C) morphemes
D) glottochrones
Q3) English-Canadian accents vary widely from coast to coast even for second-generation immigrants.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What problems have been encountered in attempting to understand the origins of language?
Q5) Explain and critique the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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Chapter 5: Making a Living
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Q1) Who is most responsible for the extermination of the American bison herds in the 1880s?
A) mounted Plains hunters,whose mobility gave them lethal efficiency
B) white setters,who saw the independence of mounted Indians as a threat
C) starving Plains hunters,who had no choice but to kill off the few remaining animals
D) invading Canadian Aboriginal groups
Q2) Among the Kalahari Ju/'hoansi,first marriages are arranged,but for subsequent marriages,both men and women may choose their own partners.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Acquisition of horses among the Blackfoot of Western Canada led to changes in marriage and alliance patterns and to the development of a class system.
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?
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Chapter 6: Economic Systems
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Q1) Describe and discuss the work of children in the world and comment on efforts to stamp out child labour.
Q2) "The display of wealth for social prestige." What is the term for this?
A) public consumption
B) conspicuous consumption
C) redistribution
D) public display
Q3) Approximately how many megalithic monuments are there along the coastal regions of Western Europe?
A) 800
B) 5,000
C) 20,000
D) 100,000
Q4) 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
Q5) Discuss the role of First Nations groups as intermediaries in the fur trade in Canada.
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Chapter 7: Sex and Marriage
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Q1) Only heterosexual relations and heterosexual marriages are considered normal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The genetic explanation for the incest taboo overlooks the fact that inbreeding may both increase desired characteristics and quickly eliminate harmful ones from a population.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which statement regarding homosexual behaviour in Papua New Guinea is true?
A) Same-sex contact is socially acceptable among men but not among women.
B) Any homosexual behavior is taboo and is severely punished.
C) Homosexual contact occurs among young men after their initiation rites.
D) It is believed that premarital homosexual activity makes men week and sterile.
Q4) An adult woman who is unmarried is almost unheard of in most non-Western societies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define and explain the function of the levirate and the sororate.
Q6) Discuss the relationship between polygyny and wealth.
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Chapter 8: Family and Household
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Q1) Sororal polygyny helps to reduce tension among co-wives.
A)True
B)False
Q2) "The Motherhood Mandate," gender perspective article summarizes the position of North American mothers.Which of the following statements best expresses the defining characteristics of North American supermoms?
A) They are blended mothers attempting to maintain traditional values while buying into the image of a modern woman.
B) They are modern mothers who reject many traditional values and hold career aspirations.
C) They expect to be equal partners with husbands who share half of the motherhood role.
D) They are linear mothers,moving from one task to the next throughout the day.
Q3) In Canada,it is illegal for same-sex couples to live with children conceived through donor insemination or adoption.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What issues confront same-sex marriage and the establishment of same-sex households?
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Chapter 9: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) Compare and contrast the form and function of some of the prehistoric housing structures discussed by Liam Kilmurray in his original study.
Q2) Which statement about the descriptive,or Sudanese,system of kinship terminology is true?
A) It is more specific and precise than any other kinship system,including Anglo-Canadian.
B) It is the most common form of kinship terminology.
C) It has no terms for affinal relatives.
D) It indicates that all of ego's siblings have the same social status.
Q3) Among Coast Salish people of British Columbia,all relatives of the same generation and sex are referred to by the same term.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of moieties?
A) They are usually based on lineages.
B) They provide rights of access to other communities.
C) They perform reciprocal services for each other.
D) They maintain the integrity of the entire society.
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Chapter 10: Social Stratification and Groupings
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of "institutionalized racism"?
A) discrimination in schools and other institutions by Euro-Canadians against "foreigners" who are considered inferior
B) legally sanctioned restrictions based on the ideology that whites are biologically and socially superior to nonwhites
C) any hostile or violent behaviour by one group against another group on the basis of skin colour
D) mob violence by Euro-Canadians who see their actions as patriotic
Q2) Among many non-Western peoples,what does advanced age bring for women?
A) their first experience of social equality with men
B) economic parity with men
C) opportunities to visit distant kin
D) additional subsistence activities
Q3) In Canada,what attribute of a person is most likely to confer a higher status on that individual?
A) their charisma
B) their profession
C) the number of children they have
D) their religious affiliation
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Chapter 11: Political Organization and the Maintenance of Order
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Q1) Which term refers to the way power is distributed and embedded in a cultural group?
A) government
B) political organization
C) adjudication
D) law
Q2) Among the Nuer of South Sudan,which statement about feuds is true?
A) They are very uncommon.
B) They have been eliminated through mediation by chiefs.
C) They are very common.
D) They are resolved by clan elders.
Q3) What do "bands" all have in common?
A) They are centralized.
B) They are associated with intensive agriculture.
C) They are hierarchical in social organization.
D) They are egalitarian and kin-based.
Q4) The oldest form of political organization is the state.
A)True
B)False
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) According to Haviland,science may in fact have contributed to a "veritable religious boom."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Socially restricted behaviours are called taboos.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Interest in vampires,horoscopes,witchcraft,and other kinds of occult or supernatural phenomena has increased in the last thirty years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The moieties of the Iroquois are not based on kinship.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Shaman is the name given to full-time religious specialists in non-Western cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define neo-paganism and describe and compare three neo-pagan religions.
Q7) What are the similarities and differences between religion and witchcraft?
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Chapter 13: The Arts
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Q1) Which First Nations culture produced the first significant carvings in the Arctic region?
A) Dorset
B) Tlingit
C) Haida
D) Cree
Q2) Which of the following groups used graffiti as an expression of empowerment?
A) the Mafia in 19th-century New York City
B) Irish immigrants in 19th-century New York City
C) members of the hip-hop subculture
D) members of the punk subculture
Q3) In most cultures,art is primarily aesthetic and non-useful.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Many anthropologists have traced the origin of tales found in the southeast United States to West Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss why it is important to protect the cultural heritages of tribal peoples.Why is it of concern to anthropologists?
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Chapter 14: Anthropology at Work
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Q1) The goals of business are not really compatible with the traditional knowledge of First Nations peoples.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Is it possible for an anthropologist to work in a corporate setting and maintain their professional integrity? Discuss some of the positive and negative aspects of corporate anthropology.
Q3) The field of museology,or museum curation,has a completely separate and distinct history that comes out of art history and does not involve applied anthropology.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The environmental justice movement has close ties to medical anthropology. A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss how applied anthropology came to be associated with environmental justice,using the case of the Love Canal toxic dump and Canadian environmental issues as examples to illustrate your points.
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Chapter 15: Cultural Change and the Future of Humanity
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Q1) The world's largest array of nutritious foods was originally developed by North American Aboriginal peoples.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Nunavut has the right to negotiate with industry for economic and social benefits from non-renewable resource development.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following concepts is exemplified by the idea that any American child can grow up to become President?
A) self-development
B) an urban myth
C) hegemony
D) the American dream
Q4) Galileo was praised by his church and his society when he stated that the earth revolved around the sun.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the impact of modernization on the Skolt Lapps and Shuar Indians.
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