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Course Introduction
This course examines the dynamic interactions between globalization and culture, exploring how global processes influence cultural practices, identities, and traditions around the world. Students will analyze the ways in which cultural exchange, migration, media, technology, and economic integration foster both convergence and diversity. Key topics include cultural homogenization, hybridity, resistance, global flows of popular culture, and the negotiation of local identities in a global context. Through case studies and critical readings, the course encourages students to critically assess the benefits, challenges, and complexities of cultural globalization in contemporary societies.
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Cultural Anthropology Appreciating Cultural Diversity 15th Edition by Conrad Kottak
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Chapter 1: What Is Anthropology
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Q1) Archaeologists studying sunken ships off the coast of Florida or analyzing the content of modern garbage are examples of how
A) archaeologists study the culture of historical and even living peoples.
B) Hollywood has popularized archaeology in recent movies, making it a popular college major.
C) archaeology is going through an identity crisis, with its practitioners questioning the discipline's focus on studying prehistory.
D) archaeology is free from having to worry about the impact of its work on people.
E) training in the use of research skills for extreme environments-such as landfills and the deep sea-are worth the time, resources, and risk for the sake of the anthropological knowledge gained.
Answer: A
Q2) Culture is not itself biological but rests on certain features of human biology. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Culture
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Q1) In anthropology, cultural relativism is not a moral position but a methodological one. It states that
A) because cultural values vary between cultures, they cannot be analyzed and compared.
B) some cultures are relatively better than others.
C) in order to understand another culture fully, we must try to understand how the people in that culture see things.
D) to understand another culture, we must try to use tactics to jar people so that their true view of things is revealed.
E) to bring about desired cultural change, anthropologists should act as emissaries of the most evolved cultural values.
Answer: C
Q2) Methodological relativism does not preclude making moral judgments or taking action.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Method and Theory in Cultural Anthropology
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Q1) The overall trend in anthropological theory has been from theories that put human agency at the center of cultural dynamics to paradigms that see evolution as the main force behind cultural change.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Ethnographers typically combine emic and etic research strategies in their fieldwork. This means they are interested in applying both
A) local- and scientist-oriented research approaches.
B) local and bifocal research approaches.
C) reflexive and salvage approaches.
D) personal and impersonal research approaches.
E) the genealogical and survey methods.
Answer: A
Q3) Boas and his students were strong proponents of cross-cultural comparisons, without which they could not validate their findings.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Applying Anthropology
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Q1) Discuss ethical dilemmas and possible solutions with respect to the kinds of applied anthropology discussed in this chapter.
Q2) Anthropology may aid in the progress of education by helping educators avoid all of the following EXCEPT
A) indiscriminate assignment of nonnative English speakers to the same classrooms as children with "behavior problems."
B) tolerance of ethnic diversity.
C) incorrect application of labels such as "learning impaired."
D) sociolinguistic discrimination.
E) ethnic stereotyping.
Q3) During World War II, the U.S. government recruited anthropologists to study Japanese and German cultures. This chapter uses this example to illustrate the dangers of the old anthropology.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Non-Western medicine treats illnesses symptomatically, seeking an immediate cure.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Language and Communication
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Q1) What is an example of what Bourdieu calls symbolic domination in the context of language use?
A) in an egalitarian society, the promotion of linguistic diversity
B) pride in one's linguistic heritage, regardless of what the majority thinks
C) the fact that in a stratified society, even people who do not speak the prestige dialect tend to accept it as standard or superior
D) focal vocabulary contrasts among groups
E) Chomsky's insistence that the universal grammar defines all culture
Q2) What is the term for the variations in speech due to different contexts or situations?
A) linguistic confusion
B) situational syntax
C) contextual phonetics
D) Chomskian verbosity
E) style shifting
Q3) Sociolinguistics has demonstrated that men lack the linguistic capacity to distinguish between slight changes in color.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Ethnicity and Race
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Q1) The only chance for human racial classification schemes to work is to shift from using phenotypic to genotypic characteristics of human populations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements about U.S. racial categories is true?
A) They are applied to endogamous breeding populations.
B) They are biologically valid, as demonstrated by the Phipps case in 1970s Louisiana.
C) They are based on global racial categories that vary little among societies.
D) They are based on genetics, whereas Japan's are based upon undemonstrated descent.
E) They are culturally arbitrary, even though most people assume them to be based in biology.
Q3) Racial classification is a political issue. Compare the Canadian census in its treatment of racial categories to the U.S. census. What do you think would be the political consequences of using one census over another?
Q4) Racial categories in Japan are more rigid than racial categories in Brazil.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Making a Living
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Q1) We should not view contemporary foragers as isolated or pristine survivors of the Stone Age. Why? What is the evidence to suggest this?
Q2) In transhumant societies, the entire group moves with their animals throughout the year.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most contemporary foragers live in remote areas, completely cut off from contact with other modern, agricultural, and industrial communities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the means, or factors, of production?
A) synonyms of a society's mode of production
B) a society's institutional mechanisms for making sure that everyone is productive
C) the ways a society organizes production
D) labor forces organized by kinship ties
E) a society's major productive resources, such as land and other natural resources, labor, technology, and capital
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Chapter 8: Political Systems
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Q1) In the Igbo women's war, women used song, dance, noise, and "in-your-face" behavior to attempt to subvert formal authority, but women did not gain any greater influence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Modern foragers are not Stone Age relics, living fossils, lost tribes, or noble savages. Still, to the extent that foraging has been the basis of their subsistence, contemporary and recent hunter-gatherers
A) are the closest we can come to studying true human nature.
B) illustrate links between a foraging economy and the emergence of social stratification.
C) suggest that the most basic motive driving human survival is the need for power.
D) can illustrate links between a foraging economy and other aspects of society and culture, such as their sociopolitical organization.
E) illustrate the social precursors to hegemony.
Q3) A fiscal system includes the judges, laws, and courts that resolve conflicts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Gender
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Q1) More than half of all U.S. families living in poverty are
A) patrifocal.
B) blended.
C) headed by men.
D) headed by women.
E) dichotomized.
Q2) Which of the following statements about groups with the patrilineal-patrilocal complex is NOT true?
A) They are often characterized by the view that the women are polluting.
B) Their land and prestige are passed through the females.
C) They have strongly developed private-public dichotomies.
D) They have their prestige goods under male control.
E) They often practice polygyny and have patterns of intervillage raiding.
Q3) In which type of society would you expect women's status to be highest?
A) pastoralists
B) agriculturalists
C) societies where there is much population pressure
D) hunters and gatherers
E) industrial states with high unemployment
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Chapter 10: Families, Kinship, and Descent
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Q1) Outside North America, Western Europe, and the European-derived cultures of Latin America, neolocal residence isn't all that common.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With unilineal descent, one's lineage affiliation is ascribed at birth, but with ambilineal descent, lineage affiliation is more fluid, because each member chooses his or her own descent group.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Anthropologists are interested in kinship calculation, which is
A) the position from which one views an egocentric genealogy.
B) the rules people use to determine their ethnic affiliation to a group.
C) the process by which people choose their postmarital residence.
D) the system by which people in a society reckon their kin relationships.
E) people's emic perspective on family values.
Q4) A descent group consists only of a married couple and their children.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Marriage
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Q1) "A person can have multiple spouses without ever getting divorced." Using the concepts you have learned in this chapter, explain this seemingly contradictory statement.
Q2) All of the following are a form of polygamy EXCEPT
A) a man who marries, then divorces, then marries again, then divorces again, then marries again, each time to a different woman.
B) a man who has four wives simultaneously.
C) a woman who has three husbands, all of whom are brothers.
D) a man who has three wives, all of whom are sisters.
E) a man who has two unrelated wives.
Q3) How do the rules of endogamy function in society?
A) They prove that the incest taboo is not the cultural universal it was once thought to be.
B) They encourage the extension of affinal bonds to an ever-widening circle of people.
C) They tend to maintain social distinctions between groups.
D) They expand the gene pool.
E) They extend kin ties across classes.
Q4) Does the practice of paying a dowry necessarily imply gender inequality?
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Chapter 12: Religion
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Q1) According to Bronislaw Malinowski, religion provides people with emotional comfort during problematic times.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Fundamentalists are correct in seeing a rise in secularism in contemporary North America.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Worldwide, Islam is growing at a rate of about 2.9 percent annually, versus 2.3 percent for Christianity, whose overall growth rate is the same as the rate of world population increase.
A)True
B)False
Q4) To Kottak, the widespread U.S. belief that recreation and religion are separate domains is both ethnocentric and false. Further, it may be taking the "fun" out of religion.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss two cases of religion's role in social change.
Q6) How do you explain the universality of religion?
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Chapter 13: Arts, Media, and Sports
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Q1) In non-Western societies, artists tend to be iconoclastic and antisocial.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following does NOT influence artistic expression?
A) patronage and sponsorship
B) advice and criticism from judges and experts
C) etic categories of utilitarian and nonutilitarian elements of society
D) public opinion
E) the desire of artists to express themselves
Q3) Because appreciation of the arts is acquired through enculturation, what one finds aesthetically pleasing depends in part on one's cultural background.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There is more collective production and performance of art in non-Western societies than in Western, industrialized states.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Where is art found? Is art found in the same contexts in all kinds of societies?
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Chapter 14: The World System and Colonialism
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Q1) According to Weber, what are the three dimensions of social stratification?
A) the means of production, mode of production, and measure of production
B) status, exchange, and religion
C) gender, ethnicity, and race
D) wealth, power, and prestige
E) age, gender, and ethnicity
Q2) According to Wallerstein, the nations in the world system can be classified into three types: core, periphery, and frontier.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the Industrial Revolution, and how did it differ from previous life in villages, towns, and cities? Why is this topic relevant to an anthropologist?
Q4) What is the world capitalist economy? When did it originate, and what are its features? What are core, semiperiphery, and periphery? What is their relationship to world capitalism?
Q5) According to Marx, the bourgeoisie is made up of the people who must sell their labor to survive.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World
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Q1) The 2008 global economic crisis emphasized the interconnected nature of people's livelihoods all over the world. This chapter featured the predicament of Brazilian immigrants in the United States. How did the economic downturn, among other factors, affect their decision to return to Brazil? How has it affected you, your family, and your community?
Q2) What is the difference between postmodernity and postmodernism? How has postmodernity affected the units of anthropological study?
Q3) What is a text, and how does its reading relate to the role of the individual in popular culture?
Q4) How have indigenous movements, political mobilization, and identity politics affected ethnography?
Q5) Contemporary, applied ecological anthropologists work to plan and implement policies aimed at environmental preservation. They also advocate for people who are at risk, actually or potentially. One of the roles for today's environmental anthropologist is to assess the extent and nature of risk perception and to harness that awareness to combat environmental degradation.
A)True
B)False
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