Ethnography Question Bank
Course Introduction
Ethnography is a qualitative research method rooted in anthropology and social sciences, focusing on the systematic study of people and cultures from an insiders perspective. This course covers the key concepts, techniques, and ethical considerations involved in ethnographic research, including participant observation, fieldwork, interviewing, and the recording of cultural data. Students will develop critical skills in designing and conducting ethnographic studies, analyzing qualitative data, and producing written ethnographies that offer rich, nuanced descriptions of social life. Through practical exercises and case studies, the course emphasizes the importance of reflexivity, cultural sensitivity, and engagement with diverse communities.
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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) Anthropology studies the language of a culture,its philosophy,and its forms of art;and in the process of doing research,ethnographers involve themselves intensively in the lives of those they study,trying to experience culture from their informants' points of view.In this sense,anthropology is _______________.
A)scientific
B)humanistic
C)radical
D)conservative
E)systematic
Answer: B
Q2) Because their differences are distributed independently,humans cannot be classified into races having any biological validity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The shared,learned behavior of non-human apes should not be considered culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) A society is held together by a shared sense of identity and worldview.This collective body of ideas allows a society to make sense of the world,its challenges and opportunities.It is known as _______________.
A)philosophy
B)code ethics
C)superstructure
D)foundation
E)religion
Answer: C
Q2) The term ___________________________ is the economic foundation of a society,including its subsistence practices.
A)social structure
B)infrastructure
C)superstructure
D)external structure
E)internal structure
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Ethnographic Research: Its History, methods, and
Theories
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Q1) Anthropologists usually find surveys to be _________________________________.
A)very helpful
B)good for discovering NEW things
C)qualitative data producing
D)not very useful
E)excellent for finding NEW data
Answer: D
Q2) A woman among the Ju/'hoansi called Richard Lee _______________.
A)uncle
B)husband
C)son
D)nephew
E)father
Answer: C
Q3) During the early days of anthropology,French ethnographers tended to work in southern and East Africa.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Becoming Human: the Origin and Diversity of Our Species
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Q1) What is the purpose of a free upper lip among primates?
A)decrease in exposure to parasites
B)more versatile eating behaviors
C)increased facial expression
D)louder ability to issue calls and vocalizations
E)all of the above
Q2) Biological evolution refers to _______________.
A)gradual improvement and progression in a species
B)progressive elaboration and increase in complexity
C)changes in the genetic makeup of a population over generations
D)biological and cultural changes that lead to increase in efficiency
E)descent from monkey ancestors
Q3) Which of the following anthropologists combated against the evaluation of humans by race?
A)Carolus Linneaus,Franz Boas
B)Carlton Coon,Franz Boas
C)Ashley Montagu,Carlton Coon
D)Franz Boas,Ashley Montagu
E)Johann Blumenbach,Ashley Montagu
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Chapter 5: Language and Communication
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Q1) All _______________,as systems of communication using sounds or gestures that are put together in meaningful ways according to a set of rules,are organized on the same basic plan.
A)languages
B)symbols
C)signals
D)phonetics
E)core vocabulary
Q2) The influence of a person's class status on what pronunciation he/she uses;a speaker's choice of more complicated vocabulary and grammar when he/she is speaking to a professional audience;the influence of language on culture--all these are the concerns of _______________.
A)descriptive linguistics
B)historical linguistics
C)sociolinguistics
D)linguistic nationalism
E)displacement
Q3) Chantek was a gorilla who learned American Sign Language.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Social Identity, personality, and Gender
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Q1) What is considered "normal" in a society is defined by culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Even though flawed,national character studies were important to anthropological research because they helped to turn studies from small-scale farming communities,hunters and foragers,to
A)large-scale contemporary state societies
B)urban homeless
C)stereotypes
D)large-scale multinational characteristics
E)independence training
Q3) The concept of __________________________________ refers to the idea that character traits which occur with the most frequency in a cultural society are representative of the values that culture embraces.
A)national cultural traits
B)modal personality
C)national personality
D)social conformity models
E)community training
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Chapter 7: Patterns of Subsistence
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Q1) The red dye that the Mekranoti use for painting ornaments and people's bodies is
A)papaya
B)achiote
C)India ink
D)capybara
E)barbasco
Q2) The _______________ way of life is the oldest and most universal type of human adaptation.
A)pastoral
B)horticultural
C)food-foraging
D)food-producing
E)urban
Q3) A peasant is an agriculturalist.
A)True
B)False
Q4) People started shifting to food producing ways of life about 10,000 years ago.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Economic Systems
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Q1) Which of the following is not a chemical found in chocolate?
A)anandamide
B)anandamidelike chemical compounds
C)phenylethylamine
D)trytophan
E)formaldehyde
Q2) Which of the following is not a reason why recruiters from large multinational corporations might try to recruit anthropologists?
A)Big businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on the raw materials and labor of "Third World countries," which are typically studied by anthropologists.
B)Because anthropologists are intimately involved in the lives of the people they study,they can be recruited by the American government to spy on local insurgents and trouble-makers for big business.
C)Anthropologists can provide important information about the everyday etiquette expected in arranging business deals.
D)Anthropologists know the language of the people they study,and can provide translation and interpretation.
E)None of the above is a reason.
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Chapter 9: Sex, marriage, and Family
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Q1) In India no crossing of sub-castes is permissible even if the class positions of the bride's and groom's families are similar.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When a culture allows a man to marry the daughter of his mother's brother,they are allowing a ______________________.
A)patrilateral cross-cousin marriage
B)matrilateral cross-cousin marriage
C)patrililineal cross-cousin marriage.
D)patrilateral marriage
E)patrilateral cross-cousin marriage.
Q3) One of the areas that is most changing the composition of families today is that of
A)fictive kin
B)increasing acceptance of polygynous unions
C)new reproductive technologies
D)increasing numbers of same-sex marriages
E)decreasing divorce rates
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Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) If you are a member of a patrilineal descent group,_______________.
A)descent is traced exclusively through females
B)your sisters belong to the same patrilineal descent group that you do
C)you are likely to live in a horticultural society
D)your brothers belong to the same descent group but your sisters do not
E)you do not have a mother
Q2) A phratry is a unilineal descent group composed of two or more _______________ that believe they are related to each other.
A)moieties
B)totems
C)kindred
D)lineages
E)clans
Q3) By tracing membership either through males or through females,members of unilineal descent groups _______________.
A)know exactly to which group they belong and where their primary loyalties lie
B)are confused about their relationship to persons not included in the group
C)act like females if they are in a matrilineal group
D)act like males if they are in a patrilineal group
E)know exactly how many children they are going to have
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Chapter 11: Grouping by Gender, age, common Interest, and Class
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Q1) The African Burial Project confirmed what we already knew about slavery and brought forth very little new information.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Fewer than _______________ of slaves discovered in a New York burial ground had lived past the age of 55.
A)2%
B)10%
C)20%
D)7%
E)25%
Q3) What is an eruv?
A)a Tiriki age grade of warriors
B)a Turkish volunteer organization
C)a Jewish space imbued with symbolic meaning
D)a Canadian political organization
E)part of the African Burial Project
Q4) Division of labor along gender lines is common to all human societies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Politics, power, and Violence
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Q1) The term political organization refers to the way _______________,or the ability to control others' behavior,is/are distributed or embedded in society.
A)resources
B)wealth
C)taxes
D)power
E)favors
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) In pluralistic societies in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities form part of the same political state,violent conflict between neighboring groups is not common.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Spirituality, religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) Three sacred mountains are shared by three religious traditions.The mountains are Mount Ararat,Mount Horeb,and Mount Moriah.The three religious traditions are
A)Christian,Jewish,and Muslim
B)Christian,Jewish and Buddhist
C)Muslim,Christian and Hindu
D)Buddhism,Jainism,and Hinduism
E)Hinduism,Christian,and ancient Greek
Q2) Which of the following is an example of animism?
A)a lucky baseball bat
B)the goddess Athena in Greek mythology
C)the god Zeus
D)an ancestral spirit
E)the malevolent spirit inside your baseball who jumps erratically through the air just as you think you're about to hit a home run
Q3) Since strict rules and regulations guided religious consciousness,only the elite among Penobscot men could become shamans.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Arts
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Q1) Because legends contain details of a people's past,they are a form of history;because they often give a picture of a people's view of the world and humanity's place in it,they are like _______________.
A)poetry
B)religion
C)magic
D)kinship systems
E)myths
Q2) Peyote art is a traditional form among the _______________.
A)Cheyenne
B)Hurok
C)Huichol
D)Chumash
E)Comanche
Q3) A good way to deepen our insight into the relationship between art and the rest of culture is to examine critically some of the generalizations that have already been made about specific art forms.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Processes of Change
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Q1) Carol Jenkins received a MacArthur Foundation grant in order to study the emergence of new diseases in _______________.
A)United States
B)Senegal
C)Brazil
D)Norway
E)Papua New Guinea
Q2) The extermination of one group of people by another,often deliberately and in the name of progress,is called _______________.
A)ethnocide
B)acculturation
C)diffusion
D)applied anthropology
E)primary innovation
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
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Q1) To help resolve problems of global structural violence which of the following values and cultural motivations would be needed?
A)a worldview that sees humanity as part of the natural world,rather than superior to it
B)a sense of social responsibility that recognizes that no individual,people,or state has the right to expropriate resources at the expense of others
C)an awareness of how important supportive ties are for individuals,such as seen in kinship or other associations in the world's traditional societies
D)an emphasis on self-interest
E)all but d
Q2) The Karen separatist movement is occurring in the country of _______________.
A)Sri Lanka
B)Tibet
C)Spain
D)Burma
E)Indonesia
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