Anthro test 3

What kinship structure highlights the nuclear family

Lineal kinship

Which statement BEST defines a technophile era?

The term describes an age when people embrace technologies and incorporate them into every part of their lives

Which description best defines gender

cultural roles associated with the biological categories of male and female

What term refers to foods associated with life stages and rituals specific to a certain gender.

gendered foods

Which description best defines the term foodways

A society's collection, production, and consumption of food

What term describes the transfer of material and symbolic value from a groom to the bride's family

Bride wealth

What term describes the method of placing plants of different types together to promote growth and calorie yield.

Intercropping

Which statement is NOT true of cosmopolitanism

It can be observed in both urban and rural communities

What term is associated with the idea that the people should know the identity and source of the foods they eat.

Locavore

What is an example of using experimental archaeology to explore foodways

Making bread using yeast extracted from 4,500-year-old Egyptian ceramics

What is the name for the sacred energy field that can adhere for varying periods of time to people, animate objects, and inanimate objects.

Mana

For the Wari', consuming the flesh of the deceased was considered the ultimate act of respect. Once eaten, the deceased could transform from human form into spirits and eventually return as prey animals to provide food for the living. According to anthropologist Conklin this is an example of what

Mutualism

What food fad fad and religious movement was developed by an evangelical minister in 1830.

The Graham Diet

Which of the following describes the cultural practice of sororate?

When a married woman dies, the deceased wife's lineage must provide a replacement wife

Which best describes variant gender

a category of gender other than male and female

Which term refers to the belief that God can't be known, and therefore skepticism is appropriate.

agnosticism

Which statement is not supported by recent findings of feminist researchers

be obtained by male hunters is the primary source of calories for members of pre agriculture cultures

Which of the following would not be associated with food oases.

discount supermarkets

Which of the following best describes the likely diet of people during the Paleolithic period.

high in food diversity, including some raw foods

Which term refers to the intersection of race, class, ethnicity, age, gender, and physical ability.

intersectionality

Which of the following best defines hierophany.

is the manifestation of the sacred or divine

What is ghost marriage

marriage performed between one or two deceased individuals

What did studies un the 1980s reveal about nonhuman primate social organizations

nonhuman primate females are at the center of their social groups.

Which term describes marriage of one to more than one woman at the same time

polygyny

Which of the following is an example of the fictive kinship

practice of godparenthood

What is meant by the term sustainable farming techniques

produce higher food yields and higher nutritional value while avoiding chemical inputs and the use of genetically modified plants

What theory did Claude Lévi-Strauss use to analyze myth

structuralism

In the 1960s, what new invention in film making allowed for a more naturalistic style of ethnographic filmmaking.

the ability to record sound along with the visuals

According to British anthropologists, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, under what circumstances did unmarried adult males take on male wives in Zande society

when there was a scarcity of available women

Which term refers to foods that are considered culturally appropriate

Food prescriptions

The very popular film Nanook of the North (1922), made by explorer Robert Flaherty, was based on 16 months of living indigenous Inuit people in in Canada. What did anthropolgist Franz Boas think of the film?

He views the film as irrelevant to anthropology due to some staging practices in its production

What did anthropologist Tejaswini Ganti conclude about the way films changed over time in India?

Earlier films focused on themes involving working-class and marginalized peoples, while later films dramatized the live of social elites.