Cultural Anthropology Final

Nagle discusses how participant observation at eh DSNY taught her a lot at the beginning of fieldwork that shaped how she progressed in her project. Nagle describes learning all of the following EXCEPT:

Baskets are the easiest job, and senior workers compete for these routes

According to Kalofonos in "All I Eat is ARVs."The Paradox of AIDS Treatment in Central Mozambique, the paradox is:

Even though physical health improved through access to AIDS medications, daily survival remained in question due to food insecurity

Health and Fitness

Have much variation throughout different cultures and societies

At the end of her ethnography Picking Up Nagle argues that:

Sanitation workers are critical to maintaining health and we need them every day

Nagle conducts extensive participant observation as described in her ethnography Picking Up. She was able to participate so fully because:

She applies for and receives a job as a sanitation work

Development that meets the needs of the power without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs explains:

Sustainable development

In our class discussion of Daesh (aka ISIS/ISIL) we learned that:

a)Abu Bakr-al Baghdadi has declared himself to be the Calipah b)Al Qaeda and Daesh are NOT synonymous nor do they refer to the same group c)A Caliphate is a state established near the end of days in Muslim religion d)The vast majority of Muslims do NOT support Daesh e) All the above ANSWER IS ALL OF THE ABOVE

Why do fundamentalists often us the language of "returning" to "traditional values" in their ideologies and rituals?

a)Because the past is seen as purer and closer to God's original intent than the present b)Because traditional values can be associated with wise elders, prophets, and religious leaders known to be successful c)Because traditions and the past are both symbols of a known and well-understood world, especially in the content of rapidly changing conditions of the present d)All of the above e)None of the above ANSWER IS ALL OF THE ABOVE

In her ethnography Picking Up Nagle:

a)Describes how sanitation workers contribute to public health in New York City b)Discusses gender roles in the workforce c)Explains the significance of snow removal in the context of sanitation workers job d)Outlines how politics have influenced decisions-making in administration of the DSNY e)All the above are true ANSWER IS ALL OF THE ABOVE

Traditional ecological knowledge is not well known in the West because:

a)It is often shared in local languages b)Some species and ecological interactions exist in only one place c)Westerners don't often value this type of knowledge d)All of the above ANSWER IS ALL OF THE ABOVE

An explanation given for medicating the nonmedical is:

a)The growth in profits for insurance and pharamaceutical companies b)To increase the prestige of physicians c)The desire of people to see social problems in scientific terms d)All of the above ANSWER IS ALL OF THE ABOVE

Development anthropologists often think of themselves as...

advocates of poor and marginalized people

Financial globalization has allowed for:

corporations to move factories from one country to another

Violence between ethnic groups is not inevitable, but the idea that it is persists. Which of the following is NOT a reason for its persistence?

ethnic groups actually do fight with each other all the time

At the end of Waste Land Muniz:

explains how people have been using the profits to promote education and a unionized workforce to protect the rights of those who work in the dump

Which of the following is NOT true of economic anthropology?

it assumes that free market capitalism will take over the world

Which of the following is not true of how food preferences relate to gender?

men always love meat, no matter which culture they are from

(Blank) are people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries

migrants

Analyses that focus on the linkages between political-economic power, social inequality, and ecological destructions are typical of which approach?

political ecology

A foodways perspective on human evolution would emphasizes:

that changes in human dietary physiology are intertwined with how people grow, share, and eat food

In the film Ongka's Big Moka, the scene in which Onkga sits on the ground in an attempt to stop the groups from fighting best illustrates:

the limitations of the influence of a Big Man

If a development anthropologists were to get involved in a project in your city that is revitalizing a poor neighborhood, she or he would probably emphasize

the overarching importance of listening to the priorities of the neighbors

A limitation of Wallace's definition of religion is that it is:

too static