World Cultures
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Course Introduction
World Cultures provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the diverse customs, traditions, beliefs, and social practices found across the globe. Through comparative studies of various societies, students will examine how culture shapes identity, influences interactions, and affects global issues. The course covers major themes such as language, religion, art, family, and social organization, highlighting both the uniqueness and interconnectedness of human societies. By engaging with case studies, films, and scholarly readings, students will develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity and the challenges and benefits that arise in our increasingly globalized world.
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Essentials of Cultural Anthropology 2nd Edition by Kenneth J. Guest
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Chapter 1: Anthropology in a Global Age
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Q1) What key dynamic of globalization is characterized by the movement of people, not only between countries but also within the individual countries themselves?
A) four-field approach
B) flexible accumulation
C) increasing migration
D) uneven development
Answer: C
Q2) In late nineteenth-century debates on American immigration, many scholars and government officials privileged immigrants from northern Europe over those from southern Europe, such as Italians and Greeks, because the officials felt these southern people were a separate and inferior biological race with primitive ways. This is an example of:
A) holism.
B) ethnocentrism.
C) genocide.
D) ethnocide.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Culture
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Q1) In his research conducted in the Trobriand Islands, Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) employed an early form of what type of anthropological theory?
A) structural functionalism
B) unilineal cultural evolutionism
C) epigenetics
D) historical particularism
Answer: A
Q2) Many early anthropologists drew from biology to support their work. They believed that society, like the human body, was composed of interconnected parts, with each part having:
A) many symbolic meanings.
B) stratification.
C) a particular function.
D) a biological basis.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Fieldwork and Ethnography
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Q1) Franz Boas is credited with developing the concept of cultural relativism. What made cultural relativism radical at that time?
A) Cultural relativism views each culture as a variation of unilineal evolution.
B) Cultural relativism applies an ethnocentric perspective to studying different cultures.
C) Cultural relativism seeks to understand each culture on its own unique merits.
D) Cultural relativism views cultures exclusively through comparative ethnology.
Answer: C
Q2) Margaret Mead was both controversial and renowned for her work. Which of the following statements best describes that work?
A) Mead conducted deep-immersion studies of the Trobriand Islands.
B) Mead challenged existing work done among the Nuer of Africa.
C) Mead studied the effects of colonialism in Puerto Rico.
D) Mead examined sexuality and gender in Samoa.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Language
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Q1) Deborah Tannen's research into the ways that boys and girls speak suggests that:
A) they are using a form of cross-cultural communication.
B) language differences are primarily based on biology, not processes of socialization.
C) they have nearly identical communication strategies.
D) the best way to understand gender and language is through the "dominance" model.
Q2) To investigate the focal vocabulary of a language in a particular community, a linguistic anthropologist would most likely:
A) search for genetic evidence for the origin of syntax and grammar among the current members of that community.
B) seek to discover words that offer sophisticated ways to describe local cultural realities.
C) set up experiments that show how that community uses language differently than others.
D) focus on the dialects that are present within the group based on where they live.
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Chapter 5: Race and Racism
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Q1) In the period between 1933 and 1936, the Nazi regime implemented laws that defined who was and was not Jewish according to ancestry. Any person with three or four Jewish grandparents was considered a "full-blooded" Jew. This approach to dividing and categorizing people relies on the assumption that:
A) phenotype determines race.
B) race is a cultural reality, but not a biological one.
C) Judaism is a religion, not a race.
D) race is a biological reality.
Q2) The story of Shellcracker Haven and how the local white residents were gradually disenfranchised from their lives and work because of their class status is a strong reflection of the tendency to do what to others?
A) resist racism
B) colonize
C) racialize
D) stereotype
Q3) Compare and contrast the concepts of individual racism with institutional racism. Provide examples from class to support your points.
Q4) Explain how European colonial expansion gave rise to race and racism.
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Chapter 6: Ethnicity and Nationalism
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Q1) Which of the following might an anthropologist consider to be a kind of "imagined community"?
A) New York Times editorials
B) Burning Man gatherings
C) Facebook groups
D) a small class of students
Q2) What metaphor has been used to describe the process of immigrant assimilation into U.S. dominant culture?
A) nationalism
B) tossed salad
C) melting pot
D) ethnic cleansing
Q3) Some Native American groups strategically expand into an "ethno-corporation," choosing to see their ethnicity as ________.
A) an opportunity
B) an independent nation-state
C) a loss
D) American
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Chapter 7: Gender
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Q1) Define the concept of intersex, and explain how physicians' attitudes toward children born intersex have changed in recent decades in parallel with changes in attitudes toward sexuality.
Q2) With which of the following statements about human behavior would an anthropologist be most likely to agree?
A) It is a combination of biology and enculturation.
B) It is almost entirely dictated by biology.
C) It is almost entirely dictated by enculturation.
D) It is a result of biology or cultural expectations depending on the person, but never both in the same individual.
Q3) A United Nations survey recently found that less than 22 percent of the world's parliamentarians are women. What does this suggest about the role of gender in establishing and maintaining power dynamics?
A) Gender plays a key role in power relationships.
B) Power is based on biological characteristics.
C) Gender is less important than other factors when establishing powerful leaders.
D) Power is unrelated to both sex and gender.
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Chapter 8: Sexuality
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Q1) Applying an anthropological lens to sexuality and sexual behaviors around the world allows us to not only investigate relationships between individuals themselves, but between individuals and what?
A) their families
B) their ethnicity
C) their culture
D) their government
Q2) Some studies have found that 61 percent of men believe women give consent nonverbally through body language, though only 10 percent of women say they give consent through body language cues. To which issue are these finds related?
A) the safety risks involved in sexual behavior, such as sexually transmitted infections
B) the worldwide problem of gender discrimination
C) the criminalization of sex work in the United States
D) the need for improved consent policies advocating "only yes means yes"
Q3) Discuss the role of language in sexuality and how it both controls behavior and gives license to perform certain behaviors. How do prominent public figures use language around sexuality? What are the consequences of direct and honest discussion in both a public and private setting?
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Chapter 9: Kinship, Family, and Marriage
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Q1) Through kinship studies across cultures, anthropologists have determined that the ways in which genealogies are constructed can be messy and far from exact. Gaps, interruptions, disruptions, uncertainties, and assumed connections are all found among genealogies. This fact is further underscored by Kathleen Gough's reexamination of anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard's kinship work with Nuer people in Sudan. Describe one example of a genealogical disruption that Gough found among Nuer kinship data collected in the 1930s, and discuss why the disruption likely occurred. What sorts of gaps and disruptions are present in your own genealogy, and why do you think they have occurred? Do you think that genealogies will undergo even greater gaps and disruptions in the future? Why or why not?
Q2) Many different kinship structures send a son away (or search outside their immediate kin groups) for a marriage partner. What rule does this reflect?
A) endogamy
B) monogamy
C) polygamy
D) exogamy
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Chapter 10: Class and Inequality
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Q1) Class is not commonly discussed in the United States; yet, it is a system of stratification that profoundly affects peoples' lives. In what class position would you classify yourself and your family? What criteria did you use to determine your class position? Does your class position differ from that of your grandparents? What about your friends? What do you do to increase your social mobility? Do you think your efforts will improve your class position at some point in your lifetime? What other forms of social stratification affect your social mobility?
Q2) The dramatic increases in debt and student loan costs have helped perpetuate what aspect of life in U.S. society?
A) the housing crisis
B) access to quality education
C) the culture of consumption
D) maintaining a good credit rating
Q3) How do systems of class affect an individual's life chances?
A) They affect the chance for upward mobility.
B) They are unrelated to the chance for upward mobility.
C) They lead to social stagnation.
D) They encourage rebellious behavior.
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Chapter 11: The Global Economy
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Q1) Did you get a tax refund last year? If you did, you have experienced redistribution. What would an anthropologist consider this to be?
A) carrying capacity
B) balanced reciprocity
C) a leveling mechanism
D) market exchange
Q2) Agriculture is an intensive farming strategy involving permanent cultivation of the land. What is an important characteristic of this process?
A) Agriculture rarely produces a surplus that can be sold.
B) Agriculture uses labor and technology such as irrigation systems and plows.
C) Agriculture is an environmentally low-impact practice.
D) Agriculture uses a slash-and-burn method to clear land.
Q3) What is agricultural production? Where and when was it first seen in the archaeological record? What technologies does this subsistence strategy use? Name three social, political, and demographic features of agricultural societies that are not found in horticultural, pastoral, or foraging lifestyles.
Q4) What does the author mean by "bridges and barriers"? Give two examples each of potential bridges and barriers.
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Chapter 12: Politics and Power
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Q1) A fraternity brother stole a valuable piece of jewelry during a sorority rush party. His brothers do not want to get in trouble, so they do not turn him over to the police or university. However, they cannot permit such a violation of their values and norms. Their solution is to submit the offender to their own tribunal and devise a fitting punishment that reassures the community. This is an example of:
A) agency.
B) civil society.
C) hegemony.
D) alternative legal structure.
Q2) During World War II, Walt Disney Productions distributed pro-American propaganda cartoons featuring Donald Duck for the U.S. government in an effort to increase support for the war. This is an example of:
A) civil society.
B) militarization.
C) state sovereignty.
D) modern warfare.
Q3) Describe the effects militarization has on a society. Provide two examples.
Q4) Explain what hegemony is and give an example that illustrates your explanation.
Q5) Give an example of how a group has used a framing process.
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Chapter 13: Religion
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Q1) French sociologist Emile Durkheim argued that religion, particularly religious ritual, serves a crucial role in combating one's sense of anomie and in addressing larger social dynamics of alienation and dislocation. How did Durkheim define anomie, and what is a specific example of it in the world today? How does religious ritual help combat anomie? How does religious ritual address larger social dynamics of alienation and dislocation? How did these notions argued by Durkheim influence the anthropological approach to the study of religion?
Q2) What do anthropologists call a part-time religious practitioner with special abilities to connect individuals with supernatural powers or beings?
A) medicine man
B) priest
C) magician
D) shaman
Q3) The diversity of local religious expressions complicates anthropologists' efforts to develop:
A) a universal definition of spirituality.
B) an understanding of which religion is best for society.
C) a new, universal religion for the modern world.
D) a universal definition of religion.
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Chapter 14: Health, Illness, and the Body
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Q1) Discuss how "traditional" Chinese medicine has "gone global"? How and when did Chinese medical practices become more widespread in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world?
Q2) Anthropologist Arthur Kleinman's work involves collecting cross-cultural illness narratives. Where can such narratives be vital in the treatment of illness and promotion of good health?
A) in spreading Western medicine
B) in non-Western cultures
C) in the use of herbal medicines
D) in providing health care across cultural divides
Q3) Medical anthropology takes a holistic approach to health. In addition to examining meaning and power, what else does this approach include?
A) promoting ethnopharmacology
B) promoting biomedicine
C) epidemiology
D) Genetics
Q4) What is biomedicine, and how do its practitioners view and treat diseases? Discuss two criticisms that anthropologists have about the European biases in the model.
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Chapter 15: Art and Media
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Q1) Anthropologists define art as all the ideas, forms, techniques, and strategies that humans use to do what?
A) use objectively valuable materials in a beautiful way
B) communicate their cultural values to other societies
C) teach cultural norms to children in an entertaining way
D) communicate their creativity and inspiration
Q2) What is the predominant export destination of West African art?
A) art museums
B) a French art gallery
C) a New York City warehouse
D) the Internet
Q3) Jessica Winegar studied post-9/11 attempts by institutions to bridge cultural differences with media. What category was rarely featured at the exhibits designed to improve relations?
A) historical art
B) female artists
C) male artists
D) music and rituals of Sufism
Q4) Consider the global trade of West African "wood" and "mud" artwork. Are these objects "authentic"?
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