Anthropology
Corruption is only a serious problem in non-Western societies.
False
Globalization is exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied inter connectivity before
False
People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.
False
Anthropologists have studied hundreds of different kinship systems around the world over the past century, but they can all be grouped into 6 different patterns. This has resulted in the development of
Kinship charts
What is a life cycle ritual that marks a persons group of persons transition from one social state to another
Rite of passage
While the American psychiatric association removed homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973, the same classification of homosexuality as "abnormal" label continued to allow the US government to reject immigrants. This ability to classify individuals according to a state of normal or abnormal is an example of the use
Social power
Localization is the flip side of globalization
True
Weddings and marriages are usually less about the couple than about relationships with the couple's social network, including friends and family.
True
Hijras interest anthropologists mainly because they are
a reflection of a gender/sex system that sees meaning in combining male and female
The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to
accumulate prestige
A good example of the process of medicalization is found in the changing understanding of which of the following conditions as a "disease"?
alcoholism
Which of the following are areas of social activity that globalization affecta
all answers are correct
A synonym for hybridization is
all of the above
An explanation given for medicalizing the nonmedical is
all of the above
Anthropologists now understand that magic
all of the above
Illness is an experience that is
all of the above
People participate in globalization by
all of the above
The ghost dance among the Sioux in the 1890s was
all of the above
Which of the following is an element of violence
all of the above
Anthropologist George Gmelch studied which sport where he found that players used a lot of magic
baseball
The theory that explains why cultural differences have not disappeared because cultural consciousness is increasingly bringing people together around cultural similarities is
clash of civilizations theory
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
When social norms dictate that someone from a particular clan must marry outside of that clan, anthropologists say that the clan is
exogamous
One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that
global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves
It is suggested in the text that the appearance of some mental illnesses are showing up in other countries where they did not previously exist, and this may be the result of
globalization
Health and illness
have much variation throughout different cultures and societies
What is the "subjectively of illness"
how people understand and experience their condition on a personal level
Geertz's approach to religion is a style of analysis that looks at the underlying symbolic and cultural interconnections within a society; this is often referred to as
interpretive approach
Individuals who diverge from the male-female norm and exhibit sexual organs and functions somewhere between, including both male and female, are called
intersex
Which of the following is not true about hybridization theories
it explains why conflict is growing in the world
A voodoo doll is a good illustration of
magic that follows the law of similarity
The term politics can mean many things, but from the wider anthropological perspective, it is understood as talking about the relationships and processes of all of the following except
media
What subfield of anthropology tries to understand how social, cultural, biological, and linguistic factors shape the health of human beings in different cultures?
medical anthropology
Nearly all societies draw on more than one medical tradition simultaneously, a process which is called
medical pluralism
Which of the following refers to the family into which one is born and raised
natal family
What is the family formed by a married couple and their children called
nuclear family
For a big man in a nonstate society, what is the most powerful and valuable tool?
persuasion
Marriage takes different forms in different places. All the terms listed below are forms of marriage except
polyamory
Which of the following is not a political art
posting what you had for dinner on Facebook
Anthropologists and other social scientists refer to ways in which social, economic, and political processes categorize and transform a population into racial meanings as
racialization
Stylized performances involving symbols that are associated with social, political, and religious activities are called
rituals
From an anthropological perspective, sex-assignment surgery is useful because it
shows that "sex" is constructed upon cultural assumptions
A key feature of religious beliefs and behavior is that they are rooted in
social behavior and social action
Violence is
socially constructed
Which of the following is an example of American totemism
sports team mascots
Power that transcends individuals, operating in settings and orchestrating settings in which social and individual actions take place, is
structural power
Hawaiians and other Polynesian islanders traditionally believed that mana, sacred or supernatural power, existed within certain objects, at sacred spaces, and in persons, including all of the following except
sun
The importance of a phenomenon like "revenge suicide" in Papua New Guinea is that it demonstrates
that the non-powerful have ways of exercising political power
The work of Paul Farmer in Haiti to combat AIDS revealed much more than the underlying problems inherent in the clinical pathology and transmission of the disease, including
the connection between health and socioeconomic and political conditions there
Women who practice polyandry tend to marry
two or more brothers