General Anthropology
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Course Introduction
General Anthropology offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of humankind, exploring the biological, cultural, linguistic, and archaeological aspects that define human diversity through time and across the globe. Students examine fundamental concepts such as evolution, adaptation, social organization, language, and cultural practices, gaining insight into how humans interact with their environments and each other. Through comparative analysis and case studies, this course provides a foundation for understanding the interconnectedness of human societies and the relevance of anthropology in addressing contemporary global issues.
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The Essence of Anthropology 3rd Edition by William A. Haviland
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Chapter 1: The Essence of Anthropology
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Q1) The Garbage Project is an example of:
A) ethnoarchaeology
B) contemporary anthropology
C) ethnology
D) ethnography
Answer: B
Q2) Participant observation:
A) is the common term used for the ethnographic method
B) is a common cross-cultural ritual
C) is not used in anthropology
D) is only used in chemistry
Answer: A
Q3) Linguistic Anthropologists are interested in both spoken and written language.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) An ethnographer may work among stock brokers in New York City.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Biology and Evolution
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Q1) _______________ are the smallest working units of biological classification systems.
Answer: Species
Q2) Choose one kind of evolutionary force and describe it.
Answer: Students may choose and describe mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, or natural selection.
Q3) A sequence of chemical bases on a molecule of DNA constitutes a recipe for making _______________.
Answer: proteins
Q4) Since Type O Blood is co-dominant, a woman with Type O blood knows that OO is her:
A) DNA
B) genome C) phenotype
D) genotype
Answer: D
Q5) Anthropologists study biological diversity in terms of _______________. Answer: clines
Q6) _______________ is a major organizing principle of biological science. Answer: Evolution
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Chapter 3: Living Primates
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Q1) What evolutionary advantages were associated with arboreal mammals?
Answer: Arboreal life opened up an abundant food supply, development of manipulative hands, keen vision, and provided protection from larger predators.
Q2) Besides humans, list the other apes that compose the superfamily hominoid.
Answer: Besides humans, hominoids include gibbons, siamangs, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos.
Q3) In nearly all primates, the big toe and thumb are _______________, making it possible to grasp and manipulate objects.
Answer: opposable
Q4) Which group of primates is most associated with having a prehensile tail?
A) prosimians
B) apes
C) New World monkeys
D) Old World monkeys
Answer: C
Q5) What characteristics are unique to New World Monkeys?
Answer: All are arboreal with long tails, some of which are prehensile, and they live in tropical forests.
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Chapter 4: Human Evolution
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Q1) Increased meat consumption by our early human ancestors was important for human evolution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which hypothesis argues that Neandertals were simply a regional variation of anatomically modern humans?
A) multiregional hypothesis
B) recent Africa origins hypothesis
C) Eve hypothesis
D) out of Africa hypothesis
Q3) When did diurnal anthropoids first appear?
A) about 40 million years ago
B) approximately 65 million years ago
C) over 500 million years ago
D) over 200 million years ago
Q4) A normal human spine contains only one slight curve inward at the waist.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why do some primatologists call the Miocene the "golden age of the hominoids"?
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Q6) Compare and contrast the robust with the gracile australopithecines.
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Chapter 5: The Neolithic Revolution: The Domestication of Plants
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Q1) What do we call communities of gardeners working with simple hand tools and using neither irrigation nor plow?
A) horticultural societies
B) agricultural societies
C) domesticated societies
D) independent societies
Q2) The New Stone Age is also called the _______________.
Q3) Anthropologists Melvin Konner and Marjorie Shostak and physician Boyd Eaton have suggested the "Paleolithic prescription" that people's health will improve if they return to a lifestyle for which their body is adapted.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Mesolithic was known in the Americas as the:
A) Middle Stone Age
B) Neolithic
C) Paleolithic
D) Archaic
Q5) How did the use of sickles contribute to plant domestication?
Q6) _______________ crops are highly productive but very unstable.
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Chapter 6: The Emergence of Cities and States
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Q1) What is the role of writing in the administration of a centralized political authority?
Q2) At its height Teotihuacan housed more than 200,000 inhabitants.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the hydraulic theory.
Q4) The Inca Empire had no known form of conventional writing.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The world's first cities developed in:
A) China
B) the Indus Valley
C) Egypt
D) Mesopotamia
Q6) One example of applied archaeology is lecturing to Marines about the cultural heritage of the locations where they will be deployed.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Describe the early Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan.
Q8) What were the effects of warfare on early civilizations?
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Chapter 7: Modern Human Diversity: Race and Racism
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Q1) Underprivileged children adopted into privileged families can boost their IQs by _______________ points.
Q2) BPA (bisphenol-A) has recently been associated with higher rates of:
A) obesity
B) heart disease
C) diabetes
D) measles
Q3) In the United States, as in most industrial and postindustrial countries since World War II, IQ scores have risen an average of:
A) 45 points
B) 15 points
C) 10 points
D) 25 points
Q4) What is the primary purpose of vitamin D in humans?
A) develop acute eyesight
B) maintain the balance of calcium in the body
C) prevent the development of respiratory illnesses
D) enhance the production of collagen for hair
Q5) Hormone-disrupting chemical are known as _______________ agents.
Q6) Human biological variation is best expressed as a _______________.
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Chapter 8: The Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) In the barrel model of culture subsistence is part of the _______________.
Q2) Kapauku culture defines the caring of pigs as _______________ work.
Q3) A group that shares ancestry, origin, language, customs, and traditional beliefs is also called:
A) an ethnic group
B) a society
C) a subculture
D) a culture
Q4) The Kapauku practice marriage of one man to multiple wives. This is called:
A) polygyny
B) polyandry
C) polygany
D) polysorality
Q5) Among both Muslims and Jews, which animal is seen as most defiling?
A) pig
B) cow
C) snake
D) dog
Q6) For a culture to function properly, its various parts must be _______________ with one another.
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Chapter 9: Language and Communication
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Q1) A human being has about 50 facial muscles and can make about how many facial expressions?
A) 37
B) 175
C) 4,500
D) 7,000
Q2) American Sign Language is a fully developed language.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _______________ is unique to human language because it refers to abstract concepts removed from time and place.
Q4) Routine greetings are similar around the world.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What major differences did linguists find between Swedish and Finnish in the study of differing rates of on-the-job accidents?
Q6) How have forces such as colonialism affected the survival of indigenous languages?
Q7) Define "descriptive linguistics."
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Chapter 10: Social Identity, Personality, and Gender
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Q1) Although National Character Studies are no longer considered scientifically valid, how might anthropologists develop a way to study "cultures-at-a-distance" given the new forms of technology that exist today?
Q2) In Samoa, boys who take on the identity of females are called:
A) winkte
B) bardah
C) hemanah
D) fa'afafines
Q3) Among the modern day settled Ju/'hoansi, women are as self-reliant as men.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What various roles have castrated men held in human societies?
Q5) If an individual is born with only one X chromosome as a sexual set, this is called:
A) intersexuality
B) Down's syndrome
C) Turner's syndrome
D) androgen insensitivity syndrome
Q6) An intersexual individual who has both ovarian and testicular tissue is called a
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Chapter 11: Subsistence and Exchange
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Q1) Cultural adaptation leads to an improvement in the lives of every individual.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the United States we currently live in a postindustrial society.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Aymara Indians have a 70% greater pulmonary function than do lowlanders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ___________________________ is a network of producing and circulating marketable commodities that are not regulated by government.
Q5) What is the primary goal of Kula ring partners?
A) to establish and solidify long-term trading partnerships
B) to compete against each other for monetary gain
C) to gain economic advantage over partners in both directions
D) to create a regular trade expedition
Q6) What is the primary difference between land management and control in traditional non-industrial societies and in industrial societies?
Q7) Why is horticulture considered to be ecologically sustainable?
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Chapter 12: Sex, Marriage, and Family
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Q1) According to strict Judeo-Christian law, as prescribed in the book of Leviticus, adultery was punishable by:
A) incarceration
B) flogging
C) social ostracism
D) death
Q2) Among the Nandi, which person is considered the "female husband"?
A) the barren woman who contracts the marriage
B) the fertile woman who enters into woman to woman marriage
C) the husband of the barren woman
D) the male lovers of the fertile woman
Q3) Under what conditions is woman to woman marriage practiced among the Nandi, and what are the advantages of such an arrangement?
Q4) Sexually restrictive societies are in a worldwide minority.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The basic cooperative structure that ensures an individual's primary needs and provides the necessary care for children is the _______________.
Q6) In Peru, the Inca was required to marry his _______________.
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Chapter 13: Kinship and Other Methods of Grouping
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Q1) A child's inheritance of their father's name as their own surname is customarily a part of _______________ descent.
Q2) Which of the following establishes descent group membership exclusively through the male or the female line?
A) matrilineal descent
B) unilineal descent
C) kinship
D) bilineal descent
Q3) Often archaeologists can detect social organization from material structure.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The central person from whom the degree of each relationship is traced is referred to by the term:
A) ancestor
B) totem
C) EGO
D) kindred
Q5) Cross-cousins and parallel-cousins are created by the _______________ kinship system.
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Chapter 14: Politics, Power, and Violence
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Q1) In uncentralized political systems, all offenses are:
A) considered to require formal sanctions
B) severe challenges to the group's leadership
C) transgressions against the state
D) transgressions against the individual or kin group
Q2) Which of the following pairs are examples of uncentralized systems?
A) chiefdoms/tribes
B) states/tribes
C) tribes/bands
D) bands/chiefdoms
Q3) How do tribal leaders customarily enforce their authority?
A) through shaming and gossip
B) through fines and taxes
C) through military action
D) through banishment
Q4) The focal point for the band's claims on territory is the _______________.
Q5) When surplus goods are amassed in a centralized location for dispersal at a later date, the economic system is classified as _______________.
Q6) What is the difference between the state and the nation?
Q7) A _______________ is a people who share a collective identity.
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Chapter 15: Spirituality, Religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) Why have many countries signed bans against supporting clitoridectomy?
Q2) Religion and spirituality are best examined as part of a society's worldview.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to anthropologists, which of the following statements is true?
A) religion is very common to humankind
B) religion is found in primitive societies only
C) religion has been found to be a part of all cultures
D) religion is virtually a universal, although there have been some groups without it
Q4) What are the primary differences between the priest and the shaman?
Q5) While religion tends to be more structured and associated with the collectivity, spirituality exists on an individual, somewhat idiosyncratic, level. Discuss how religion and spirituality merge in many people's lives and the effect that each may have on the other.
Q6) _______________ spirits played an important role in the patrilineal society of traditional China.
Q7) When a group sees themselves as part of nature, they have a _______________ worldview.
Q8) What primary goals does religion fulfill for a society?
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Chapter 16: Global Changes and the Role of Anthropology
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Q1) Globally, although there is structural violence, equality is increasing rapidly.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Between 1950 and 2000 the world population reached a high of:
A) 16 billion
B) 6 billion
C) 2 billion
D) 8 billion
Q3) Nearly all state debt in Africa comes from the cost of weapons purchased to fight their own citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The World Health Organization classifies which of the following as a worldwide epidemic?
A) obesity
B) skin cancer
C) shingles
D) emphysema
Q5) What is adaptive about ethnocentrism?
Q6) An estimated ______________ national groups exist in the world today.
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