Ethnography Review Questions
Course Introduction
Ethnography is an immersive research methodology used within the social sciences to study the cultural patterns, behaviors, and everyday life of groups, communities, or societies from an insiders perspective. This course introduces students to the foundational theories, methods, and ethical considerations of ethnographic research, emphasizing the development of skills for designing fieldwork, conducting participant observation, and producing descriptive and analytical written accounts. By critically engaging with classic and contemporary ethnographies, students will gain practical experience in qualitative data collection, field note writing, and cultural analysis, preparing them for advanced research or professional work in diverse social and cultural settings.
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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) An ethnologist can be described as someone who _______________.
A)studies female behavior
B)studies cultures of the past
C)develops a theory of culture by comparing many specific cultures
D)studies primitive cultures
E)studies urban-industrial societies
Answer: C
Q2) While ethnography is the in-depth study of a single culture,ethnology is the comparative study of culture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Ethnographic fieldwork is never done in Western societies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) One way that culture is preserved and shared is by language.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) Cross cultural studies show that homicide rates mostly decline after the death penalty is abolished.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The most important symbolic aspect of culture is religion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following is evidence of cultural behavior among non-human animals?
A)chimpanzees fashion a tool from a twig to hunt for termites
B)macaques wash sweet potatoes before eating them
C)a lion pack passes a characteristic behavior pattern to the next generation
D)a deer freezes in the headlights of a car
E)All except d
Answer: E
Q4) There can be no culture without a society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Ethnographic Research: Its History, methods, and
Theories
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Q1) The most important anthropological research tool by far is participant observation.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) Both Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were pioneers in the method of field mapping.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) Both William Crocker and Richard Lee were _______________.
A)adopted into networks of kinship at their fieldsites
B)awarded the honor of outstanding fieldworkers by the anthropological association
C)considered master fieldworkers by quantitative researchers
D)pioneers in the development of field photography
E)all of the above
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Becoming Human: the Origin and Diversity of Our Species
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Q1) Which Western anthropologist was the first to encourage the study of Great Ape culture in the wild?
A)Dian Fossey
B)Louis Leakey
C)Frans Boas
D)Bronislaw Malinowski
E)Jane Goodall
Q2) The concept of race is has powerful symbolic significance in many countries as a ________________ category.
A)cultural and social
B)community and social
C)social and political
D)political and educational
E)social and medical
Q3) Chimpanzees routinely form very tight and exclusive sexual bonds with each other.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Language and Communication
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Q1) Admiration for a NEW and clever phrase;the development of a specialized vocabulary to distinguish a professional group;the efforts of the members of the upper class to distinguish themselves from the lower classes by maintaining a distinct mode of pronunciation--all of these may contribute to _______________.
A)linguistic divergence
B)vocal segregation
C)substitution frames
D)core vocabulary
E)a Whorfian hypothesis
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
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Chapter 6: Social Identity, personality, and Gender
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Q1) The Ju/'hoansi are a group of horticulturalists living in the Kalahari grasslands of southern Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What anthropologist did ground breaking work on personality as a cultural construct?
A)Margaret Mead
B)R.K. Williamson
C)Franz Boas
D)Francis Hsu
E)Ruth Benedict
Q3) The extent to which Native Americans see spirituality is reflected in their belief that all things have spirit.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Standards that define normal behavior for any culture are determined by that culture itself.
A)True
B)False
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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) Prolonged nursing of infants acts as a mode of contraception.
A)True
B)False
Q3) City dwellers are only indirectly concerned with adapting to their natural environment.
A)True B)False
Q4) To say differing sex roles among food foragers are compatible with the biological differences between men and women supports the assertion that they are biologically determined.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 8: Economic Systems
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Q1) The Inca Empire featured a highly efficient redistributive system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Among food foragers such as the Ju/'hoansi,_______________.
A)land is defined as a territory with usable resources and flexible boundaries that belongs to a band that has occupied it for a long time
B)land is thought of as belonging to those who have bought it
C)land is considered private property,and access to the land can be denied
D)land is owned by the ancestors and the living only use it
E)land is controlled by a corporation of strangers
Q3) For redistribution to be possible,a society must have _______________.
A)a cultural emphasis on generosity
B)an egalitarian social order
C)a centralized system of political organization
D)informal economy
E)industrialization and urbanization
Q4) Everyone in the world wants the same goods and services.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Sex, marriage, and Family
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Q1) An important source of contacts in trying to arrange an Indian marriage is/are the
A)social club
B)newspaper personals
C)internet chat rooms
D)match making businesses
E)temple
Q2) ________________________ clearly illustrate the impact of religious and cultural prohibitions to sexual behavior.
A)Sexual behavior
B)Pregnancies among young girls
C)Arranged marriages' success
D)Statistics
E)New laws
Q3) Since the 1860s in Montana,marriage is possible between two people when neither is present.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) Anglo-American culture uses Eskimo kinship terminology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Eskimo kinship system produces a designation of parallel and cross cousins. A)True
B)False
Q3) Descent groups _______________.
A)are composed of those who claim to be lineally descended from a particular ancestor B)are common in human societies
C)are related to particular animals,plants,or natural objects by virtue of descent from common ancestral spirits
D)trace their connections back to a common ancestor through a chain of parent-child links,and thus appear to stem from the parent-child bond
E)all but c
Q4) The traditional Scottish tartans are a colorful symbol of a shared heritage between even very distant relatives living very far apart.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Grouping by Gender, age, common Interest, and Class
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Q1) _______________ in modern North American society is exemplified by the educational system,which specifies ages at which children must begin formal schooling.
A)Age sets
B)Grading levels
C)Age grading
D)Age segregation
E)Integration
Q2) The ability to change one's class position is _______________.
A)open class
B)egalitarian
C)mobility
D)indicative of common-interest societies
E)inevitable
Q3) To be a Tiriki "warrior" is the equivalent of being an American college sophomore,in that both are age grades that individuals pass through.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Politics, power, and Violence
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Q1) Which of the following minority nations is trying to improve its political position by founding an independent state?
A)Kurds
B)Palestinians
C)Chechens
D)Aceh
E)a,b,and c above
Q2) Utilizing a cross-cultural perspective sharpened by years of anthropological research,_____________________________ specializes in ethnic and secessionist disputes.
A)Laura Nader
B)Elliott Winstead
C)William Tze
D)William L. Ury
E)Clifford Gertz
Q3) Among the Wape ancestral ghosts can be seen as agents of social control.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Spirituality, religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) Although many North Americans suppose witchcraft is something that belongs to a less enlightened time,in fact,it is alive and well in the United States today.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The collective body of ideas,beliefs,ideals,and values that members of a culture share concerning reality is known as their _______________________________.
A)religion
B)faith
C)tradition
D)worldview
E)spirituality
Q3) If religious belief reflects the structure of society,in which types of society would you expect to find widespread belief in ancestral spirits?
A)those in which descent groups play a major role in social organization
B)those which have a disproportionately large number of old people
C)those which have a disproportionately large number of young people
D)those in which neolocal marital residence is the rule
E)those with egocentric systems such as the kindred
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Chapter 14: The Arts
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Q1) In North America,_______________ is thought of as a specialized activity done for play,recreation,or aesthetic appreciation.
A)religion
B)myth
C)art
D)magic
E)science
Q2) Anthropologists prefer to use the term verbal arts rather than the term folklore because _______________.
A)the term folklore is used only by linguists;the term verbal arts is used only by anthropologists
B)the term verbal arts sounds more sophisticated
C)the term verbal arts is more scientific
D)the term folklore implies lack of sophistication,and is a condescending term to use
E)the term folklore refers only to fairy tales
Q3) Scale systems and their modifications comprise what is known as ethnomusicology.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Processes of Change
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Q1) Happily,ethnocide no longer occurs due to innovative technology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Corn originated in _____________________.
A)Brazil
B)North America
C)Italy
D)Zimbabwe
E)Mexico
Q3) 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
Q4) Diffusion can occur without acculturation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Global Challenges local Responses and the
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Q1) The worldwide spread of such products as Pepsi is taken by some as a sign that a _______________ world culture is developing.
A)standardized
B)heterogeneous
C)homogeneous
D)motley
E)varied
Q2) China spends _______ per cent of the world's spending on military arms.
A)4
B)33
C)48
D)2
E)8
Q3) The major problem associated with cultural pluralism has to do with
A)cultural relativism
B)egocentrism
C)fear of strangers
D)cultural negativism
E)ethnocentrism
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