Global Cultures
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Course Introduction
Global Cultures is an interdisciplinary course that explores the diversity and complexity of cultural expressions around the world. Students examine key concepts such as identity, tradition, globalization, and cultural exchange, gaining insight into how societies develop and maintain unique values, beliefs, and practices. Through case studies, readings, and multimedia materials, the course fosters critical thinking about cultural similarities and differences, as well as the impact of historical and contemporary interactions among nations. By engaging with a range of cultural perspectives, students develop a deeper appreciation for global interconnectedness and the challenges and opportunities it presents in an increasingly multicultural world.
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Culture Counts A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 2nd Edition by Serena Nanda
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Chapter 1: What Is Anthropology and Why Should I Care
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Q1) Anthropologists' interest in how people see colors,how children are raised,and how illnesses are treated is an example of cultural relativism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The study of the development of contemporary social networks through the technology of Facebook is an example of research in:
A)cultural anthropology.
B)biological anthropology.
C)human variation.
D)primatology.
E)archaeology.
Answer: A
Q3) All people alive today have exactly the same ancestors at a time depth of 5,000 years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Culture Counts
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Q1) The notion that technological improvements are good and beneficial to society is classified as a:
A)symbol.
B)belief.
C)analogy.
D)norm.
E)value.
Answer: E
Q2) In what kind of society would you be most likely to find inherent conflict?
A)geographically stratified
B)egalitarian
C)socially stratified
D)socially-nonstratified
E)subsistence-based
Answer: C
Q3) Learned behavior is found exclusively in humans beings.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Doing Cultural Anthropology
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Q1) Individuals who serve as guides and teachers for anthropologists in the culture in which they do fieldwork are called by all of the following terms except:
A)consultants.
B)managers.
C)interlocutors.
D)informants.
E)respondents.
Answer: B
Q2) What was "Project Camelot?"
Answer: It was a project headed by the U.S.Army and Department of Defense to enlist anthropologists and other social scientists in achieving American foreign policy goals.
Q3) Cross-cultural comparisons began formally in social science with the publication of Herbert Spencer's Descriptive Sociology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The belief that one's own culture is superior to another is called __________.
Answer: ethnocentrism
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Chapter 4: Communication
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Q1) Critics of English-only argue against it because:
A)language is significant in the process of unifying a nation.
B)immigrants are overwhelmed with cultural differences and should not required to learn a new language as well.
C)a culture's strength lies in its linguistic diversity.
D)it creates greater inequities in an already-unequal system of education and opportunities.
E)it is morally wrong.
Q2) The study of the relationship between language and culture is called:
A)cultural linguistics.
B)historical linguistics.
C)descriptive linguistics.
D)structural linguistics.
E)sociolinguistics.
Q3) The subsystem of a language that relates words to meanings is called:
A)phonology.
B)allophones.
C)morphology.
D)semantics.
E)lexicon.
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Chapter 5: Making a Living
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Q1) Pastoralism is a self-sufficient and autonomous subsistence strategy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Subsistence and politics go hand in hand.Discuss the ways that politics affect our food options and health strategies.
Q3) How has global warming affected the subsistence strategy of the Inuit peoples in the Arctic?
Q4) The key to the pastoralist economy is:
A)the availability of technology.
B)the extent of grazing rights shared among all people.
C)herd growth.
D)agricultural crops.
E)global markets.
Q5) The productivity of any given environment is directly related to:
A)the amount of available biofuels.
B)the amount of genetic diversity in the species present in the environment.
C)the number of people living in an area.
D)the technology used to exploit it.
E)the availability of resources within specific climate zones.
Q6) What is a "peasant?"
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Chapter 6: Economics
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Q1) Most commonly,land is communally owned and managed by an extended kin group among:
A)industrialists.
B)horticulturalists.
C)foragers.
D)agriculturalists.
E)pastoralists.
Q2) What is the most significant consequence of cargo systems,according to anthropologists?
A)They allow redistribution of wealth and keep economic differences from forming within the society.
B)They allow all people in a society to hold religious and social positions of power and influence.
C)They are the only source of authority and political influence within a society.
D)They provide a means for elders within the society to maintain power beyond their age prime.
E)They serve to reinforce social hierarchies and economic differences.
Q3) What are the three fundamental attributes of capitalism?
Q4) Describe how eBay represents very typical market exchange within U.S.society.
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Chapter 7: Marriage, Family, and Kinship
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Q1) How does polyandry differ from polygyny?
Q2) When a couple lives with the wife's family,it is referred to as:
A)neolocal residence.
B)bilocal residence.
C)avunculocal residence.
D)patrilocal residence.
E)matrilocal residence.
Q3) All societies practice some form of the levirate and sororate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most non-unilineal systems are __________.
Q5) All of the following are principles for classifying kin except: A)sex of linking relative.
B)lineality vs.collaterality.
C)gender.
D)race.
E)relative age.
Q6) Name three functions of a kinship system.
Q7) Name four functions of marriage.
Q8) How many generations are there in an extended family?
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Chapter 8: Sex and Gender
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Q1) The ages at which sexual activity should begin and end are:
A)biologically determined.
B)physical laws.
C)cultural constructions.
D)natural laws.
E)social laws.
Q2) In all human societies,young boys must "prove" themselves at puberty.This is a cultural universal.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In which New Guinea society did Margaret Mead find that both men and women were expected to act in ways that Americans consider "naturally feminine"?
A)Arapesh
B)Tchambuli
C)Mundugamor
D)Samoa
E)Ndembu
Q4) What is the cultural construction of gender?
Q5) Distinguish between sex and gender.
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Chapter 9: Political Organization
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Q1) Define political organization.
Q2) Robert Carneiro argues that the Inca Empire emerged primarily in response to __________ factors.
A)ecological
B)historical
C)cultural
D)linguistic
E)political
Q3) What is the role of indigenous peoples subsumed within nation-states? How do policies such as national assimilation affect these groups?
Q4) Name three informal mechanisms of social control.
Q5) What does it mean to say that tribes are "acephalous"?
A)They have structured political organization.
B)They have no centralized government.
C)They do not have informal social control mechanisms.
D)They have paramount chiefs.
E)They practice warfare.
Q6) Why is it beneficial to study the political process in human societies? Give examples for each of your arguments.
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Chapter 10: Stratification: Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Caste
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Q1) Using the examples of the U.S. ,India,and China,describe how globalization has affected each of these systems of social stratification.Which system do you think has the greatest chance of adapting to rapid change?
Q2) The untouchable status has been officially,legally outlawed in India.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A relatively permanent,unequal distribution of goods and services in a society is called:
A)social inequity.
B)social services.
C)social mobility.
D)social hierarchy.
E)social stratification.
Q4) Why is downward mobility "hidden" in the U.S.media?
A)It does not exist in contemporary U.S.society.
B)It is too sensationalistic.
C)It does not conform to the "American Dream."
D)It is not the experience of the majority of people.
E)It does not affect the middle classes.
Q5) Name the five groups that make up the Indian caste system.
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Chapter 11: Religion
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Q1) A pilgrimage is classified as a sacrifice.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Cuban Santeria is a mixture of:
A)African religions and Catholicism.
B)Catholicism,Protestantism,and African religions.
C)Islam,Buddhism,and African religions.
D)African religions,Catholicism,and French spiritualism.
E)African religions,Rastafarianism,and French spiritualism.
Q3) Why are symbols so powerful and evocative?
A)They are imbued with many different meanings,some of them contradictory.
B)They represent something that is tangible and real.
C)They are a means of distancing ourselves from the supernatural.
D)They are believed to contain magic and to be able to transform reality.
E)Symbols are not powerful.Signs,however,are powerful.
Q4) Analyze a rite of passage with which you are familiar,pointing out each of the three stages and how the individual and society become transformed through the ritual.
Q5) The "I Have a Dream" speech of Martin Luther King,Jr.is a good example of a ___________ prophecy.
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Chapter 12: Power, Conquest, and a World System
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Q1) The Board of Directors of the Dutch East India Company was known as:
A)the VOC.
B)Tirailleurs Senegalais.
C)the Ottoman Empire.
D)Hieran XX.
E)Heeren XVII.
Q2) Between the end of the 15th century and the end of the 19th,Europe exported an estimated 88 million slaves from Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Tirailleurs Senegalais were originally constituted by which colonial power?
A)Italy
B)France
C)Germany
D)Senegal
E)Netherlands
Q4) One of the most important means of wealth transfer for Europe was pillage.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why did the VOC ultimately fail?
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Chapter 13: Globalization and Change
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Q1) Structural adjustment policies have increased poverty and inequality worldwide.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the specialty of the Grameen Bank?
A)It is the bank for almost all of the multination corporations.
B)It is a bank that makes loans to impoverished nations.
C)It is the world's richest bank.
D)It is a bank that makes loans to poor women.
E)It is a bank that loans money to entrepreneurs in wealthy nations.
Q3) What is a multinational corporation?
Q4) Proponents of _______________ argue that development fails when it focuses on large-scale projects and technological change and pays too little attention to improving the lives of the poor.
A)structural adjustment
B)human needs approaches
C)modernization theory
D)neoliberalism
E)multinational corporations
Q5) Name four problems that many post-colonial nations face today.
Q6) How does migration change both urban and rural areas?
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Chapter 14: Anthropology Makes a Difference
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Q1) Public anthropology can best be defined as the study of local peoples and local voices.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Forensic anthropologists worked to help identify victims of September 11th,2001.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the three primary messages of the RACE Project?
Q4) What are the primary ethical issues that anthropology has with a "cultural defense?"
A)There is concern that a cultural defense means that one culture is protected,while another is not.
B)There is a concern that abusive behavior will be excused by the use of such a defense.
C)There is concern that these cultural behaviors that are criminal in nature will become widespread in U.S.society.
D)There is an ethical concern that lawyers will begin making money off of cultural matters.
E)There is a concern that culture may become contested in court.
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