Anthropology Final

Tribes are ______ societies. Select the best one: - egalitarian - ranked - stratified - state

egalitarian

The definition of religion as "the belief in supernatural beings" is... Select the best one: - current research's accepted definition of the term. - more accurate than considering practices and social institutions in connection to the concept. - excluding much of what people around the world actually believe. - All of the above

excluding much of what people around the world actually believe.

The cultural norms and attitudes surrounding food and eating are known as... Select the best one: - foodies - picky eaters - foodways - subsistence

foodways

Today, anthropologists recognize that _______, far from being primitive, is one of the most effective and dynamic subsistence systems humans have ever developed, through Marshal Sahlins' conception of the original "affluent society" is overly romantic. Select the best one: - pastoralism - horticulture - agriculture - foraging

foraging

The "ideoscape" of globalization refers to... Select the best one: - the flow of people across boundaries - flows of technology - the flow of ideas - All of the above

the flow of ideas

Horticulture and pastoralism emerged around _______ years ago. Select the best one: - 12,000 - 1,000 - 6,000 - 24,000

12,000

Martha Ward and Monica Edelstein estimate that intersex individuals constitute what percent of human births? Select the best one: - 0.05% - 0.5% - 5% - 15%

5%

_____ can be useful when completing anthropological field research and are particularly helpful when documenting changes in families over time. Select the best one: - Kinship charts - Marital clauses - Kinship certificates - Marriage charts

Kinship charts

What is another name for an ethnographic approach in which anthropologists include non-human species as active participants in a society or culture and study their influence and actions? Select the best one: - Historical particularisms - Sustainable developments - Multispecies ethnographies - All of the above

Multispecies ethnographies

Which of the following is not an attribute of culture? select the best one: - it is shared - it is learned - it is historically transmitted - it has one true, absolute definition

it has one true, absolute definition

What is a culture-bound syndrome? Select the best one: - An illness recognized only within a specific culture - Swallowing Frogs in Brazil, or engolir sapos - Nervos (or nerves) in Brazil - All of the above

All of the above

What is polysemy? Select the best one: - The management of multiple impressions others have of us. - Situations in which thoughts and actions are dictated by those in authority. - Settings, situations, and symbols that convey multiple meanings. - All of the above

Settings, situations, and symbols that convey multiple meanings.

What do anthropologists call payments made to the bride's family before marriage? Select the best one: - economic mobility - status - dowry - bridewealth

bridewealth

Sexual orientation and gender identity ____ federally protected statuses in the United States. Select the best one: - are always - are not - cannot be - are sometimes

are not

Mono-cropping is a feature of industrial food production and has the benefit of producing staple foods like wheat and corn in vast quantities, but it also makes our diet less ______. Select the best one: - caloric - caloric - diverse - efficient

diverse

What do anthropologists call payments made to the groom's family before marriage? Select the best one: - economic mobility - status - dowry - bridewealth

dowry

The "technoscape" of globalization refers to... Select the best one: - the flow of people across boundaries - flows of technology - the flow of ideas - All of the above

flows of technology

A ritual or action or set of actions designed to bring a community together could also be called a... Select the best one: - rite of intensification - rite of passage - rite of purification - right of intensification

rite of intensification

A ritual or ceremony designed to transition individuals between life stages is known as a... Select the best one: - rite of intensification - rite of passage - rite of purification - right of intensification

rite of passage

Women face particular challenges when conducting anthropological fieldwork regardless of the culture, but particularly in _____ and _____ societies. Select the best one: - ancient, uneducated - modern, professional - sex-segregated, patriarchal - religious, matriarchal

sex-segregated, patriarchal

Since World War II, important research by anthropologists has revealed that racial categories are _________ defined concepts and that racial labels and their definitions vary widely around the world. Select the best one: - biologically and behaviorally - socially and culturally - humanly and humanely - biologically and genetically

socially and culturally

The term that Native Americans have preferred for transgendered individuals is... Select the best one: - two-way - burdash - two-spirits - berdache

two-spirits

Today, __ in ___ people in the world do not have access to adequate nutrition, the most basic element of good health. Select the best one: - 1 in 10 - 1 in 80 - 1 in 8 - 1 in 18

1 in 8

What is patriarchy? Select the best one: - A male-dominated political and authority structure, and an ideology that privileges males over females overall and in every strata of society. - A male-centered kinship group where living arrangements after marriage often center around households containing related men. - Groups of related males and their male offspring, forming the core of the family and constituting the family's most central and enduring social and emotional ties. - All of the above

A male-dominated political and authority structure, and an ideology that privileges males over females overall and in every strata of society.

What is a stratified society? Select the best one: - A society in which elites who are a numerical minority control the strategic resources that sustain life - An egalitarian society - A coercive political institution - A society that is hemmed in by a geographic feature such as mountain ranges

A society in which elites who are a numerical minority control the strategic resources that sustain life

What is the Anthropocene? Select the best one: - An anthropological field research site - A term proposed to describe the current moment (or epoch) in geological time in which the effects of human activities have altered the fundamental geochemical cycles of the earth. - The pollutants produced by human activities. - The subfield of cultural anthropology that explores the relationship between human cultural beliefs and practice and the ecosystems in which those beliefs and practices occur.

A term proposed to describe the current moment (or epoch) in geological time in which the effects of human activities have altered the fundamental geochemical cycles of the earth.

What is biological determinism? Select the best one: - A theory that biological differences between males and females lead to fundamentally different capacities, preferences, and gendered behaviors. - A theory that gender roles are rooted in culture, not biology. - A scientifically supported view. - All of the above

A theory that biological differences between males and females lead to fundamentally different capacities, preferences, and gendered behaviors.

Anthropology has shown that which of the following have contributed to health problems? Select the best one: - World colonialism - Warfare - Diseases - Changes in diet - All of the above

All of the above

Anthropology is unusual and unique from other academic disciplines because it: - has a global quality - has varied and eclectic methods - is a comparative discipline - includes science and the humanities - All of the above

All of the above

Despite the wide variety of supernatural beliefs found in cultures around the world, most belief systems include... Select the best one: - cosmology - belief in a realm beyond direct human experience - ritual - All of the above

All of the above

Humans use material possessions to... Select the best one: - meet needs. - regulate social lives. - affirm the rightful order of things. - All of the above

All of the above

In anthropological terms, a performance can be... Select the best one: - artful - reflexive - traditional - All of the above

All of the above

In most cultures around the world, marriage is... Select the best one: - not the romantic view of marriage found in Hollywood movies and romance novels - largely a device that links two families together - a logical vehicle for creating alliances between groups - All of the above

All of the above

Media anthropologists are concerned with some classic subjects of cultural anthropology, including... Select the best one: - kinship. - religion and mythology. - identity and the transmission of cultural meaning. - All of the above

All of the above

Some ways anthropologists have become involved in environmental causes in Brazil include... Select the best one: - working with indigenous groups to maintain land claims - preventing deforestation - organizing against construction of large hydropower projects that threaten river ecosystems - All of the above

All of the above

Structural violence can include things like... Select the best one: - infectious disease - hunger - violence such as torture and crime - All of the above

All of the above

Swidden agriculture is... Select the best one: - also called shifting cultivation. - an agricultural practice in which fields are cleared, burned, and planted for several seasons before being returned to fallow for an extended period. - also called slash-and-burn agriculture. - All of the above

All of the above

The concept of "lifestyle," from an anthropological perspective, refers to... Select the best one: - the creative ways individuals perform various social identities - the reflexive, and sometimes ironic, ways individuals perform various social identities - a type of cultural or societal "performance" - All of the above

All of the above

The following exemplifies what Erving Goffman referred to as "presentation of self"-- Select the best one: - An upwardly mobile couple eating cheap ramen noodles at home but dining on fine food and wine with people they want to impress. - A political candidate from a wealthy family wearing cheap work clothes and speaking with a working-class accent at a working-class bar to appeal to working-class voters. - Management of impressions others have of us. - All of the above

All of the above

The idea of mana is... Select the best one: - an example of animatism - a word meaning "powerful wind," or "lightning" or "storm - a concept from Oceania - All of the above

All of the above

What are peasants? Select the best one: - Groups named after the French term for "countryman" - Groups defined in reference to some larger society, such as an empire or state - Residents of a state who earn a living through farming - All of the above

All of the above

What is communal healing? Select the best one: - An approach to healing that directs the combined efforts of the community toward treating illness. - An approach to healing that suggests that healing occurs via the harnessing of strong emotions such as fright, anger, or grief. - An approach to healing that incorporates comparative views of wellness, illness, and healing. - An approach to healing that seeks to treat medical ailments by achieving a balance between the forces, or elements, of the body.

An approach to healing that directs the combined efforts of the community toward treating illness.

What is ethnography? Select the best one: - An internal study of unusual practices of a group. - An in-depth study of everyday practices and lives of a people. - Viewing the practices of a people from one's own perspective. - All of the above

An in-depth study of everyday practices and lives of a people.

What is agency? Select the best one: - An individual's ability to make independent choices and act according to will. - Widely circulated knowledge within a community. - Performances such as concerts or plays. - Power so pervasive that it is rarely acknowledged or even recognized, yet informs everyday actions.

An individual's ability to make independent choices and act according to will.

Laura Nader argued that anthropologists should both "study up" and "study down," or study both... Select the best one: - celebrities and chefs. - social media influencers and social media stars. - colonizers and the colonized. - Canadians and Americans.

Colonizers and the colonized

The 5 "Scapes" of Globalization are... Select the best one: - Landscapes, Scapegoats, Cityscapes, Townscapes, Xeriscapes - North, South, East, West, and Southwest - Ethnoscapes, Technoscapes, Ideoscapes, Financescapes, Mediascapes - Cityscapes, Townscapes, Landscapes, Seascapes, Airscapes

Ethnoscapes, Technoscapes, Ideoscapes, Financescapes, Mediascapes

What is a term that describes the migration of generally affluent people from urban areas to rural areas for the amenities of nature, recreation, and scenic beauty associated with rural areas? Select the best one: - Suburban - Extractive reserves - Historical Particularism - Exurban

Exurban

What is the biomedical ethno-etiology? Select the best one: - It views disease as the result of the active, purposeful intervention of an agent, who may be human, nonhuman, or supernatural. - It views disease as the result of natural forces such as cold, heat, winds, dampness, and above all, by an upset in the balance of the basic body elements. - It views illness as caused by emotional difficulties. - It applies insights from science, particularly biology and chemistry, to the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.

It applies insights from science, particularly biology and chemistry, to the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.

What is a definition for media, according to media anthropologists? Select the best one: - It is a word that is used to describe a set of technologies that connect multiple people at one time to shared content. - It is a word that describes habits or behaviors of audiences. - It is a word that describes habits of content creators. - All of the above

It is a word that is used to describe a set of technologies that connect multiple people at one time to shared content.

What is an ethnic group? Select the best one: - People in a society who claim a distinct identity for themselves based on shared cultural characteristics and a shared ancestry that are believed to give its members a unique sense of peoplehood or heritage. - A social construction that defines groups of humans based on arbitrary physical traits that are believed to distinguish them from other humans. - A social construction that defines groups of humans based on arbitrary biological traits that are believed to distinguish them from other humans. - All of the above.

People in a society who claim a distinct identity for themselves based on shared cultural characteristics and a shared ancestry that are believed to give its members a unique sense of peoplehood or heritage.

The study of the sounds of language is known as what? Select the best one: - Phonemes - Phonology - The oralist approach - Pragmatics

Phonology

What is an approach in anthropology that investigates the historical evolution of economic relationships, as well as the contemporary political processes and social structures that contribute to differences in income and wealth? Select the best one: - Political economy - Political science - Traditional economy - Anthropological economy

Political economy

What is the study of how meaning is conveyed at the word and phrase level? select the best one: - Symbolism - Syntax - Semantics - Speech act

Semantics

What is the set of practices used by members of a society to acquire food known as? Select the best one: - The substitution system - The subsistence system - The societal system - The solar system

The subsistence system

What are metacommunicative framing devices? Select the best one: - They offer layered information about how to interpret the ensuing message, and they include codes, figurative language, parallelisms, paralinguistic features, and appeals to tradition. - They are arenas in which we carefully construct and control the audience. - Intertextuality - One's community of practice

They offer layered information about how to interpret the ensuing message, and they include codes, figurative language, parallelisms, paralinguistic features, and appeals to tradition.

What are personalistic ethno-etiologies? Select the best one: - They view disease as the result of the active, purposeful intervention of an agent, who may be human, nonhuman, or supernatural. - They view disease as the result of natural forces such as cold, heat, winds, dampness, and above all, by an upset in the balance of the basic body elements. - They view illness as caused by emotional difficulties. - They apply insights from science, particularly biology and chemistry, to the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.

They view disease as the result of the active, purposeful intervention of an agent, who may be human, nonhuman, or supernatural.

A group of people who identify with each other based on shared cultural heritage, ancestry, history, country of origin, language, and/or dialect is also called" - a subculture - a culture - a society - an ethnic group

an ethnic group

Cultural definitions of gender that recognize some gender differentiation, but also accept "gender bending" and role-crossing according to individual capacities and preferences are known as... Select the best one: - anthopology - androgyny - andragogy - anthronormativity

androgyny

Any effort to classify human populations into racial categories is inherently ______ rather than _______. Select the best one: - arbitrary and objective; scientific and subjective - arbitrary and subjective; scientific and objective - intentional and objective; accidental and subjective - scientific and subjective; arbitrary and objective

arbitrary and subjective; scientific and objective

A pattern of residence in which married individuals live with or near an uncle is known as... Select the best one: - avunculocal residence - fraternal residence - fratrilocal residence - patrilocal residence

avunculocal residence

Reliance on a single plant species, also known as ______ , can lead to decreased dietary diversity and carries the risk of malnutrition compared to a more diverse diet. Select the best one: - staple-cropping - mono-cropping - subsisting - mono-typing

mono-cropping

What is the name for the process by which social, economic, and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories? Select the best one: - race - genetic formation - biological diversity - racial formation

racial formation

Active participant observation is... Select the best one: - armchair anthropology. - also known as "the veranda" approach to anthropology. - traveling to a location, living among people, and observing their day-to-day lives. - no longer an approach of modern-day cultural anthropologists.

traveling to a location, living among people, and observing their day-to-day lives.

Which of the following is not a common practice within applied anthropology? Select the best one: - comparative work - working consistently from the sidelines - investigating societies in Canada, the United States, Africa, Brazil, or elsewhere - solving practical problems

working consistently from the sidelines

What is a placebo effect? Select the best one: - A response to allopathic treatments only. - A response to biomedical treatments only. - A response to treatment that occurs because the person receiving the treatment believes it will work, not because the treatment itself is effective. - A response to ethnomedical treatments only.

A response to treatment that occurs because the person receiving the treatment believes it will work, not because the treatment itself is effective.

What are legitimizing ideologies? Select the best one: - Anthropological theories based on biological sex characteristics alone. - A set of complex belief systems, often developed by those in power, to rationalize, explain, and perpetuate systems of inequality. - Complex belief systems based on biological sex characteristics alone. - All of the above.

A set of complex belief systems, often developed by those in power, to rationalize, explain, and perpetuate systems of inequality.

Societies that have not developed a state have lasted about ______________ than societies that became states. Select the best one: - 1,000 to 5,000 years less - 1,000 to 5,000 years longer - 100,000 to 150,000 years less - 100,000 to 150,000 years longer

100,000 to 150,000 years longer

What is a third gender? Select the best one: - A term used to describe those who identify with the sex and gender they were assigned at birth. - A complex set of beliefs about gender and gendered capacities, propensities, preferences, identity and socially expected behaviors applying to gender categories. - A category for people who transition from one sex to another, either male-to-female or female-to-male. - A gender identity that exists in non-binary gender systems offering one or more gender roles separate from male or female.

A gender identity that exists in non-binary gender systems offering one or more gender roles separate from male or female.

"Minimal responses" in a language are... Select the best one: - used by women more than men. - vocal indications that one is listening. - "m-hm," or "yeah," or "I see," or similar utterances. - All of the above.

All of the above

Anthropological studies of gender, women's studies, and gender studies incorporate studies of... Select the best one: - women and other genders - issues of gender and social justice - sexuality - All of the above

All of the above

What is medical anthropology? Select the best one: - A distinct sub-specialty within the discipline of anthropology. - An anthropological sub-specialty that investigates human health and health care systems in comparative perspectives. - An anthropological sub-specialty that considers a wide range of bio-cultural dynamics that affect the well-being of human populations. - All of the above

All of the above

When local residents benefit from protected area jobs as _____. they recognize the positive economic benefits of protected are conservation and support the initiatives. Select the best one: - park guards - tour guides - research assistants - All of the above

All of the above

What is the name for a society in which there is no great difference in status or power between individuals and there are as many valued status positions in the societies as there are persons able to fill them? Select the best one: - An egalitarian society - A ranked society - A stratified society - A state society

An egalitarian society

What is a personal front or the personal front? Select the best one: - Intertextuality - Aspects of one's clothing, physical characteristics, comportment, and facial expressions that communicate an impression to others. - One's community of practice - All of the above

Aspects of one's clothing, physical characteristics, comportment, and facial expressions that communicate an impression to others.

What is reflexivity? Select the best one: - Awareness of how one's own position and perspective impact what is observed and how it is evaluated. - The management of the impressions other have of us. - Words or actions that cause something to happen. - All of the above

Awareness of how one's own position and perspective impact what is observed and how it is evaluated.

What is bilateral descent? Select the best one: - Descent that recognizes only one sex-based "side" of the family - Descent that recognizes only relatives through a line of male ancestors - Descent that recognizes both the mother's and the father's "sides" of the family - Descent that recognizes relatives through a line of female ancestors

Descent that recognizes both the mother's and the father's "sides" of the family

Seeing or categorizing others as "less than," or as inferior, primitive, in need of aid or development, and seeing them and the world through one's own cultural "glasses," could also be known as... Select the best one - Ethnography - Ethnology - Ethnocentrism - Cultural relativism

Ethnocentrism

_______ is also known as hunting and gathering. Select the best one: - Pastoralism - Horticulture - Agriculture - Foraging

Foraging

Which of the following is a foundational concept that is uniquely important in the discipline of anthropology? - Holism - A concern with the study of humans - A focus on humans as biological organisms - A focus on people's beliefs

Holism

What is another anthropological name for the terms used in a language to describe relatives? Select the best one: - Nicknames - Pet names - Kinship terminology - Marital terminology

Kinship terminology

What is indigenous media? Select the best one: - KHBR 570 AM - WKRP in Cincinnati - Media produced by and for indigenous communities often outside of the commercial mainstream. - All of the above

Media produced by and for indigenous communities often outside of the commercial mainstream.

What is a definition for mass communication? Select the best one: - One-to-many communication that privileges the receiver or consumer of the media. - One-to-many communication that privileges the sender and/or owner of the technology that transmits the media. - One-to-many communication that privileges the observer or researchers of media. - All of the above

One-to-many communication that privileges the sender and/or owner of the technology that transmits the media.

Cultural anthropologists commonly collect data through a method known as... Select the best one: - Particular occupation - Statistical regression - Participant observation - Stationary regression

Participant observation

______ is a subsistence system that relies on herds of domesticated livestock. Select the best one: - Pastoralism - Horticulture - Commensalism - Foraging

Pastoralism

What is hegemony? Select the best one: - An individual's ability to make independent choices and act according to will. - Widely circulated knowledge within a community. - Performances such as concerts or plays. - Power so pervasive that it is rarely acknowledged or even recognized, yet informs everyday actions.

Power so pervasive that it is rarely acknowledged or even recognized, yet informs everyday actions.

________ refers to the process in which an inaccurate concept or idea is so heavily promoted and circulated among people that it begins to take on a life of its own. Select the best one: - Deification - Determination - Reification - Regurgitation

Reification

What are hegemonic discourses? Select the best one: - Situations in which thoughts and actions are widely circulated within a community. - Situations in which thoughts and actions are dictated by those in authority. - Everyday words and actions that reflect cultural ideas and can be studied by anthropologists as a means of understanding a culture. - Settings, situations, and symbols that convey multiple meanings.

Situations in which thoughts and actions are dictated by those in authority.

What is the name for the division of society into groups based on wealth and status? Select the best one: - Sodality - Social classes - Segmentary lineage - Sumptuary rule

Social classes

What do anthropologists call a form of violence in which a social structure or institution harms people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs? Select the best one: - Redistribution - Domestic violence - Structural violence - Negative reciprocity

Structural violence

A term that has been used to describe people whose customs, beliefs, or behaviors are different from one's own is... Select the best one: - The Human - The Homo Sapien - The One - The Other

The Other

What is cultural appropriation? Select the best one: - Ways of explaining the origin of the universe and the principle(s) or "order" that governs reality. - Belief in an impersonal supernatural force. - The act of copying an idea from another culture and in the process distorting its meaning. - All of the above

The act of copying an idea from another culture and in the process distorting its meaning.

What is ethnomedicine? Select the best one: - Allopathic medicine exclusively. - The comparative study of cultural ideas about wellness, illness, and healing. - Biomedicine exclusively. - The comparative study of pathogens.

The comparative study of cultural ideas about wellness, illness, and healing.

Small-scale, semi-subsistence farmers make up what size group of people on the planet today? Select the best one: - The smallest single group of people on the planet today - An average group of people on the planet today - A small group of people on the planet today - The largest single group of people on the planet today

The largest single group of people on the planet today

To medical anthropologists, what is the epidemiological transition? Select the best one: - The significant increase in people living in urban environments where infectious diseases can spread rapidly, sparking pandemics. - The sharp drop in mortality rates, particularly among children, that occurs in a society as a result of improved sanitation and access to healthcare. - The change in rates of people across the globe lacking access to adequate nutrition, the most basic element of good health. - The change in ethno-etiologies.

The sharp drop in mortality rates, particularly among children, that occurs in a society as a result of improved sanitation and access to healthcare.

What is cultural infrastructure, to a media anthropologist? Select the best one: - The values and beliefs of communities, states, and/or societies that make the imagining of a particular type of network possible. - Roads or bridges the anthropologist encounters while completing field research. - The techniques for reporting on research data that involve mixing information provided by multiple cultures. - All of the above

The values and beliefs of communities, states, and/or societies that make the imagining of a particular type of network possible.

What are emotionalistic ethno-etiologies? Select the best one: - They view disease as the result of the active, purposeful intervention of an agent, who may be human, nonhuman, or supernatural. - They view disease as the result of natural forces such as cold, heat, winds, dampness, and above all, by an upset in the balance of the basic body elements. - They view illness as caused by emotional difficulties. - They apply insights from science, particularly biology and chemistry, to the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.

They view illness as caused by emotional difficulties.

What are kinship systems that recognize only one sex-based "side" of the family known as? Select the best one: - Bilateral cross-cousin marriage systems - Ranked systems - Unilineal descent systems - Bilateral descent systems

Unilineal descent systems

What is discourse? Select the best one: - An individual's ability to make independent choices and act upon his/her will. - The management of the impressions others have of us. - Widely circulated knowledge within a community. - All of the above

Widely circulated knowledge within a community.

Some subjects or approaches separate media anthropologists from other media scholars, including... Select the best one: - an emphasis on Media and Communication Studies. - a commitment to a long-term, participant-observation based fieldwork. - a focus on New Media Art. - All of the above

a commitment to a long-term, participant-observation based fieldwork.

What are staple crops? Select the best one: - foods that form the backbone of a subsistence system - potatoes in Ireland - rice in China - all of the above

all of the above

American children considering themselves equally related to a mother and a father even if one or both are absent from their life makes sense because most American families organize themselves according to the principles of ..... Select the best one: - unilineal descent - bilateral descent - matrilineal descent - patrilineal descent

bilateral descent

The ability to do what was key to the human domestication of beans and to "bringing beans to the table," for humans? Select the best one: - walk upright - till soil - live communally - boil water

boil water

In ___ systems, membership is determined by birth and remains fixed for life, and social mobility - moving from one social class to another - is not an option. Select the best one: - stratification - ideological - caste - peasant

caste

What is the difference between sex and gender? Select the best one: - there is no difference between these concepts - sex is the combination of cultural meanings given to biological differences - sex is the accumulation of all biological differences between individuals - gender is the cultural meaning assigned to biological differentiation between the sexes

gender is the cultural meaning assigned to biological differentiation between the sexes

The intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa is Manfred Steger's definition of... Select the best one: - glocalization - globalization - rites of intensification - rights of intensification

globalization

The McDonald's restaurant's "McAloo Tikki" breadcrumb-coated potato and pea patty sandwich in India is an example of ___ or the adaptation of global ideas into locally palatable forms. Select the best one: - neoliberalism - syncretism - glocalization - globalization

glocalization

Individuals "tastes" are actually outgrowths of their _____, or the embodied dispositions that arise out of enculturation in a specific social setting. Select the best one: - neoliberalism - syncretism - habitus - ethnoscape

habitus

The broad, holistic anthropological view is an expansive and inclusive perspective, and it involves the study of human beings as: Select one: - philosophical organisms - interconnected and interdependent cultural and social organisms, with histories - independent psychological and biological organisms - simple biological organisms

interconnected and interdependent cultural and social organisms, with histories

Polyandry refers to... Select the best one: - marriages in which there is one husband and multiple wives. - marriages in which there is one wife and multiple husbands. - kinship systems in which members trace descent along the lines of multiple male ancestors. - kinship systems in which members trace descent along the lines of multiple female ancestors.

marriages in which there is one wife and multiple husbands.

At the heart of media anthropology is the assertion that... Select the best one: - Facebook statuses are interpreted similarly in all nations with a free Internet. - television shows, such as The Office, are enjoyed similarly wherever they air. - local cultural context plays little role in how television is viewed. - media practices are not universal.

media practices are not universal.

A pattern of residence in which married individuals lives with or near the husband's father family is known as... Select the best one: - avunculocal residence - fraternal residence - fratrilocal residence - patrilocal residence

patrilocal residence

Residents of a state who earn a living through farming are known as ____ . Select the best one: - big men - peasants - poro and sande - social classes

peasants

A _____ is a person who claims to have direct communication with the supernatural realm and who can communicate divine messages to others. Select the best one: - millenarian - cargo cult - prophet - Shipibo

prophet

Studies of human physical and cultural variation from a scientific and anthropological perspective have allowed us to move beyond ______ thinking and toward an improved understanding of the true complexity of human diversity. Select the best one: - repealed - determined - reified - deified

reified

Humans assign ______ meaning to food, observing cultural norms about what is considered "good" to eat, and applying taboos against the consumption of other food. Select the best one: - subsistence - syntactical - substituted - symbolic

symbolic

The "mediascape" of globalization refers to... Select the best one: - the flows of technology across a medium distance - the flow of money across a medium distance - the flow of media across borders - All of the above

the flow of media across borders

The "financescape" of globalization refers to... Select the best one: - the flows of technology - the flow of money across political borders - the flow of people across boundaries - All of the above

the flow of money across political borders

The "ethnoscape" of globalization refers to... Select the best one: - the flow of people across boundaries - flows of technology - the flow of ideas - All of the above

the flow of people across boundaries

An "etic" perspective is the perspective of... Select the best one: - the observer - the studied culture - the nurse - All of the above

the observer