NNU CLTA 1550 Intro. to Cultural Anthropology Exam Questions

Koko and Washo were two primates who had learned

American Sign Language

In order to study culture one must travel to distant, far-off places. True or False?

False

When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same. True or False?

False

Animal call systems lack the ability (found in human languages) to produce an infinite number of word combinations. This ability in human language is called

Productivity

Most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking it makes a mistake: True or False?

True

Talking about sports as a battlefield is an example of

a metaphor

Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as

a pidgin language

Which project would be best suited to parachute ethnography?

a study of community response to a disaster

According to anthropologist Sherry Ortner's analysis, the American flag is an example of

a summarizing symbol

The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to

accumulate prestige

Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is

action anthropology

Development anthropologists often think of themselves as

advocates of poor and marginalized people

An anthropologist interested in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking:

an emic perspective

In the Melanesian conception of time, the future is spatially located

behind the body

Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called

cognate words

Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?

colonial history

A word that best describes participant observation is

comfortable

Financial globalization has allowed for

corporations to move factories from one country to another

The process of promoting one culture over others, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as

cultural imperialism

Hybridization is about

cultural mixing

Push-pull factors

describe the factors that "push" people to migrate from their homes and that "pull" them to host countries

Animal call systems

do not combine calls to make new call meanings

The study of how people classify things in the world is called

ethnoscience

Which of the following is the defining methodology of the discipline of anthropology?

fieldwork

If you wanted to study patterns of kin relations in a community, which method would you use?

genealogical method

One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that

global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves

The people anthropologists gather data from are called:

informants

Cultural differences are often caused and amplified by

interconnections between societies

Which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships?

intersubjective

Which of the following is a feature of language?

it consists of sounds organized into words according to some sort of grammar

A world systems theory is important for all the following reasons except 1. it is useful for analyzing postcolonial conditions 2. it highlights resistance at the periphery 3. it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology 4. it explains how and why global capitalism has disrupted so many societies

it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology

Which method is an extended conversation that can shed light on how social institutions change over time?

life histories

The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of

localization

If you studied speech patterns such as those analyzed in Robin Lakoff's study of gendered speech, you might find that "talking like a lady"

marginalizes women's voices in work contexts

The study of how sounds combine together to make meaningful units is called

morphology

When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on

parole

is a key element of anthropological fieldwork because it is a systematic research strategy of "just hanging out."

participant observation

The individual sounds used in languages to symbolically produce meanings are called

phonemes

An important ethical concern for anthropologists is to

protect their informants

The purpose of field notes is to

provide written records of information that an anthropologist collects

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay found that if a language had only three color terms, they would always be black (dark), white (light), and

red

A stoplight is a visual example of which of the following?

sign

A key difference between anthropologists of development and development anthropologists is

the first are theoretical; the second are practical

An anthropologist might consider doing "anthropology at a distance" because

there is conflict of violence in the field site

A central feature of culture convergence theories is that

they explain the apparent decline of cultural diversity

James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists:

to expand state power

Some social networks are so spatially disbursed that migrants participate a community that spans multiple countries, referred to as a

transnational community

Using life history interviews, researchers are able to

understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community

Globalization is the

widening scale of cross-cultural interactions caused by the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas within nations and across national boundaries

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

Migrants

Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all of the following except: 1. Narrative symbols 2. Key scenarios 3. Summarizing Symbols 4. Elaborating symbols

Narrative symbols