Anthropology Module 6-10

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Incest within the nuclear family is known in Pohnpei as "self dating"

"eating a rotten corpse"

According to Martha Ward, all of the following are part of the "global trio" except:

AIDS

Which of the following statements is true of ethnicity?

All of the above.

What did Martha receive from other women?

All the above

Which of the following regions have the largest number of people?

Asia

Which of the following statements is true?

Ethnic and racial groups are largely cultural and historical constructs rather than biological facts.

"Evil Gazing" is a type of witchcraft.

False

A likely candidate for acculturation is a society that is militarily and culturally equal to the society with which it is in contact.

False

Besides Martha, other female anthropologists have failed to even reach Pohnpei, let alone do any fireldwork there.

False

During Sohn Alpets funeral, Martha went hunting for wild boar.

False

Pohnpei's international fishing and agricultural ventures have been an unquestionable success.

False

Pohnpeian adoption is now almost unknown. A 2000 census reveled that only 4 percent of Pohnpeian were "lifted up." True

False

The average life span of Micronesians is higher now than ever before.

False

The vast majority of Americans (97.6%) reported that they belong to more than one "race."

False

Unfortunately, Kava has become illegal throughout Micronesia, including Pohnpei.

False

According to Ward, several families reported they were without money and could not even feed themselves.

Flase

According to the tutorial, those who have an indigenous world-view maintain an emotional detachment between people and the realms of nature and the supernatural.

Flase

Pohnpeian predictions came true, Martha had a baby boy.

Flase

Roger inherited Sohn Alpet's title of Nahnid Lapalap

Flase

The largest American minority group is:

Hispanics

Some ethnic groups essentially have been created by themselves for the rational goal of gaining political and economic power through unity. Based on what you learned in the tutorial, what American ethnic group did this since World War II?

Latinos

Which of the following statements is true of world-views?

Neither of the above

Kuru is a fatal culture specific disease of the brain and nervous system that was found among the South Foré people of the eastern Borneo

New Guinea

Ritual ceremonies intended to mark the transition from one phase of life to another are called

Right of Passage

Which of the following statements is true?

Successful socialization can result in uniformity within a society.

Which of the following statements is true?

The general public's belief in the efficacy of both naturalistic and personalistic medical systems is at least partly based on faith rather than objective proof.

Which of the following was characteristic of the Cargo Cults, the Ghost Dance Movements, and the Naparama Spirit Army?

They all had prophets.

According to Martha, Micronesians have come to regard health care as a social right, a service the government owes them.

True

According to Martha, if anything, conversion to Christianity seems to have empowered Pohnpeian women.

True

According to Nest in the Wind, Men and Women assume different, yet equally important roles.

True

Culture loss is an inevitable result of old cultural patterns being replaced by new ones.

True

Cultures are constantly changing.

True

Diffusion is the movement of things and ideas from one culture to another.

True

During her time on the island, Martha became pregnant.

True

Ethnic groups may be either a minority or a majority in a population.

True

Illness is highly culture related (e.g. it can involve spiritual imbalance) while disease usually is not culture specific.

True

In the final analysis, it is clear that people, not nature, create our identities. Ethnicity and supposed "racial" groups are largely cultural and historical constructs. They are primarily social rather than biological phenomena.

True

In traditional societies, incest is seen less as child abuse and more as an affront to social relations and kinship.

True

Kava is used to forgive each others transgressions.

True

Martha and Roger eventually divorced.

True

Martha claims that during her original fieldwork, she could not see the worth of Women's work in Pohnpei because she could not see the worth of her own work.

True

Most ethnic and "racial" minorities are concentrated in major urban centers and in particular states.

True

Most of the anthropologists and epidemiologists who worked on the original blood pressure study on Pohnpei died from heart disease.

True

Most of the major health problems in the poorer nations are due to parasitic worms and microorganisms.

True

Most people in the Western World today think of time as being fixed in nature.

True

On Pohnpei, the average family spends 40 percent of their income on imported food, beverages, alcohol and tobacco.

True

Over the last two centuries, there has developed a progressive disparity in wealth between nations and between major regions.

True

Personality types and stress are now considered less important to understanding the causes of high blood pressure than exercise and diet.

True

Placebos are especially effective when both the patient and the doctor believe that they really can cure an ailment.

True

Pohnpei is home to the capital of the F.S.M.

True

Pohnpeians have highly fluid households. About 75 percent of households reported members other than the nuclear family living with them.

True

Pohnpeians insist that a person's personality is closed off to others.

True

Processed white rice has replaced taro as the core starch food.

True

Rural Pohnpeians saw a difference in the personalities of urban Pohnpeians.

True

Several of Sohn Alpet's relatives believe he was a victim of sorcery.

True

Small indigenous societies have suffered as a consequence of the spread of western culture over the last century.

True

Suicide rates in Pohnpei are a concern. Correct! True

True

Taxis race through Kolonia.

True

The tradition-oriented personality is one that places a strong emphasis on doing things the same way that they have always been done.

True

The use of terms such as "people of color" for African, Asian, and Native Americans in a sense stigmatizes European Americans as "people without color"--a negative classification.

True

Way-side stores in Pohnpei rarely earn money.

True

Well over half of all American Hispanics claimed to be Mexican.

True

While English is not spoken as a native language by the largest number of people, it is the most world wide in its distribution.

True

Which of the following did Martha find upon her return to Pohnpei?

Wal-Mart

Which of the following statements is true?

We often share personality traits with others, especially members of our own family and community.

Diseases that are due mostly to environmental changes, increased population densities, and pollution that result from modernization in third world nations are referred to as:

diseases of development

An individual's actions are most likely to be strongly controlled by conscience if they have a(n) __________________ type of personality?

inner-directed personality

What was served to Martha in a bottle at Nan Paradise?

kava

Throughout most of U.S. history, the "drop of blood" criterion for racial ideterm-4ntification was used to:

label someone with even a small amount of African ancestry as "Black"

Which of the following things are usually characteristic of both traditional folk curers and modern medical doctors?

neither of the above

Spanish colonial authorities forced Christianity upon the Maya Indians of Guatemala and Mexico. However, the Maya defined some of the Christian saints as also being their ancient Indian gods. This is an example of:

syncretism

Among the Saora tribe of India, young men and women sometimes exhibit abnormal behavior patterns that Western trained doctors would likely define as a mental disorder. These young people cry and laugh at inappropriate times, have memory loss, pass out, and claim to experience the sensation of being repeatedly bitten by ants. The Saora explain this odd behavior as being due to ___________________ ?

the actions of supernatural beings who want to marry them

The spoken languages that are now becoming extinct are doing so mostly because:

their speakers find it more useful to speak other languages

The intermarriage rate for African Americans has been lower than for Asian and Latin Americans. A likely explanation of this is that:

there is a lower resistance to assimilation in Asian and Latin American communities

At the present time, the majority of the 100 biggest economies in the world are:

transnational corporations.


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