Midterm Exam Pt. 1
Globalization
According to anthropologist, _________, is the contemporary widening of scale of cross-cultural interactions owing to the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas
interpretive
An ___________ approach to culture, such as that promoted by Geertz, turner, and Douglas, emphasizes that culture is a shared system of meanings
Activities that are biologically based, such as eating and sleeping, are universally practiced in the same way for all humans
False
Colin Turnbull's and Father Schebesta's differing accounts of the BaMbuti pygmies are the results of
Father Schebesta only learning about the BaMbuti while they were in the village, whereas Turnbull lived amoung the BaMbuti in the forest
Parole
Ferdinand de Saussure made a distinction between the formal rules of languages (langue) and the way people speak it ( _________________________).
Malinowski's analysis of the Kula cycle is important because it helps explain how Trobriand men get social status
True
Formalists
_______ criticized substantivists for lack of attention to individual action and behavior and focused on the scientific investigate into individual economic behavior and rationality.
Secondary materials
__________, such as newspaper, are important in fieldwork because they can help provide a broader context for what the anthropologist hears and observe
The perception that the North American continent was an unpeople wilderness during the early period of European settlement when British settlers arrived is an example of
an anthropological landscape
In northern Sudan, cultural ideology holds that uncircumcised women
are not respectable and will have difficulty finding a marriage partner
the subfield of anthropology that studies human evolution, including human genetics and human nutrition, is called
biological anthropology
cultural anthropologist do research by
building trusting relationship with people over a long period of time
Hybridization is about
cultural mixing
Foodways are subject to large-scale industrial processes, trade relationships, and trends, suggesting that they are
dynamic
the process of learning culture from a young age is called
enculturation
Kenya's green belt movement is a good example of
environmental justice
animal call systems
express information about things that are not currently in their present environment
Most mammals use some form of call system to communicate with others of their species. Dogs and chimpanzees share an additional linguistic characteristic because they can communicate simple combinations of ideas about things they are not currently seeing.
false
in order to study culture one must travel to distant, far-off places.
false
The research that anthropologist Karen Tranbery Hansen has done on secondhand clothing in Zambia is interesting because it
highlights how people impose local meanings on objects
Food security
in the face of disparities in access to food, anthropologist are increasingly studying that issue of ____________
Ethnoscience
interest within environmental anthropology concerned with how non-westerns societies classify natural phenomena is called ________________, which was at its peak in the 1960's
a world system theory is important for all of the following reasons except
it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology
The exchange of brass rods for the purchase of cattle or the payment of a bride price is an example of he use of
limited-purpose money
Which of the following is not true about how food preferences relate to gender?
men always love meat, no matter which culture they are from
The human diet is
omnivorous
when language speakers use slang or metaphors, they are engaging in a concept suggested by French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure?
parole
Phonology
refers to the structure of speech sounds
the primary ethical responsibility of anthropological is to
the people or specie they study
informed consent
the practice of anthropologist explaining their research and being clear about the risks involve is called
the main idea behind the holistic perspective is to study culture
through systematic connections of different parts
All knowledge systems about nature, including science, are culturally based
true
Famines are often caused by not environmental factors but social factors like inequality.
true
Foragers tend work less to survive than agriculturalist or pastoralists
true
The recent popularity of local, organic foods in certain places is an illustration of globalization
true
a key concern in the 1850's that shaped the discipline of anthropology was the emergence of a new scientific theory called "evolution"
true
localization is the creation and assertion of highly particular, place-based identities and communities
true