ANTH 1003 Final

According to the lecture: the first evidence of domestication comes from about:

12,000 years ago

Concordant traits are:

A set of traits that always occur together

In an anthropological context, magic refers to:

Acts performed to try and control and manipulate the supernatural

Koko and Washo were two primates who had learned:

American Sign Language

One of the plausible reasons for the lack of surplus in hunter-gatherer groups is that surpluses could deplete local resources. This argument is called:

An optimal foraging strategy

Anthropology measures:

Body parameters to assess physical variation

The concept of animal husbandry refers to the practice of:

Breeding, care, and use of animals by humans

Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called:

Cognate words

In "Baseball Magic" the author of the article played as a first baseman for what team?

Detroit Tigers

Being able to communicate about things not currently present in space and time is known as:

Displacement

Archeologists today generally agree that most social systems:

Do not collapse but instead transform into other systems, retaining vestiges of their past

"Why Isn't the Sky Blue?": Which society was the earliest to have a term for the color blue written literature?

Egyptians

For pastoral groups such as the Dinka and the Nuer, the cow acts as which kinda of symbol:

Elaborating symbol

Which system of kinship terminology is associated with bilaterality?

Eskimo

"Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead" discusses how people can literally be revived from death:

False

Which is not a characteristic of civilization as defined in the lecture?

Gender Stratification

The rule that says within a group of endotherms, individuals living near the equator tend to have darker pigment

Gloger's Rule

The branch of linguistics that attempts to classify and construct a family tree of languages and to reconstruct extinct languages is known as:

Historical linguistics

According to the lecture, which of the following forms of technology is specifically related to the practice of agriculture?

Horse-drawn plow

Sexual dimorphism refers to:

How men and women have a different sexual forms The differences of hormones in men's and women's bodies The differences in chromosomal structures for men and women

Archeologists Kent Flannery suggests that farming probably began:

In poor areas at the margins of rich ones

According to the lecture, scientists have ruled out all of the following as driving the current warming trend EXCEPT:

Increased CO2 emission from humans

to say that the human race is a folk taxonomy means that

It is an example of a set of cultural categories based on physical differences

The U.S. government's prohibition of Native American children speaking their indigenous languages in Indian schools has contributed most profoundly to:

Language death

The dynamics of a complex society ensure that:

Lifestyles of the elites benefit from the labor of non-elites

Early anthropologists consider the environment of hunter gatherer societies to be harsh, and their methods of subsistence and technology to be simple, crude, and primitive:

Long-held cultural stereotypes

According to the lecture, the scientific consensus on human-driven climate change is:

Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed journals show that 97% or more actively published climate scientists agree climate warming is due to human activities

Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all of the following except:

Narrative symbols

The practice of a man having more than one spouse is called:

Polygyny

Intensification, a process that increases yields, can include:

Preparing soil Plant modification Large labor force

Census interest anthropologists because they:

Reveal the government's role in classifying and categorizing people Change over time Indicate shifts in social categories

The Inis Beag of Ireland are an example of:

Sexually restrictive society

A society having many different parts organized into a single social system is said to have:

Social complexity

Magical techniques may involve:

Spells Manipulation of special objects Incantations

Totems help create social cohesiveness by:

Stressing group identity Representing powerful symbols for people to focus on Acting as objects for group ritual activity

"Who Needs Love": The article gives three reasons why Japenese marriages are so strong and durable. Which of the following is NOT a reason to listen in the article?

Strong religious beliefs

Easter eggs at Easter and Christmas trees at Christmas are items used in the celebration of Christian holidays. As they were borrowed from other religious practices and added to the religion over time, they are examples of:

Syncretism

The RACE project/exhibit was developed and presented by:

The American Anthropological Association

In "baseball magic" among who did Bronislaw Malinowski study fishing magic?

The Trobriand Islanders

According to Marshall Sahlins, when production is organized by families it is:

The domestic mode of production

Variations in skin pigmentation can be traced to:

The latitude where one's ancestors spent the most time

Consumer capitalism contributes to increasing ecological footprints in industrialized nations because:

The production of goods is not sustainable and uses too many raw materials It promotes the idea that people need more things to be happy Goods are shipped using fossil fuels

In evolutionary terms humans are distinct from other primates with respect to their ability to use language because

We can speak using a larynx

"Why Isn't the Sky Blue?": What is the name of the Bristish Prime Minister who was fascinated with the stories of Homer?

William Gladstone

When you are consuming an object, the process of taking possession of it is called:

appropriation

According to the lecture, ridicule, song duets and an individual moving away from the group are the most effective forms of sanctions to maintain social control at which level of society?

band

Anthropologist George Gmelch studied which sport where he found players used a lot of magic?

baseball

Rank societies are most commonly associated with:

chiefdoms

Negative or unfair treatment because of his or her group membership or identity is:

discrimnation

If you live in a household with your mom and dad, your grandfather, as well as your aunt and cousins, you live in what kind of family?

extended

A couple degrees increase in the earth's average yearly temperature will not have a major impact on food production

false

It has been proven that overpopulation will inevitably lead to global famine

false

The economic system in the US is an example of pure (laissez-faire) capitalism:

false

Women in Arctic hunter-gatherer groups do not work as hard as men because there is no option to forage

false

In "Too Many Bananas" what does Koila suggest the author do with all the bananas when the author complains he has too many and they are spoiling?

feed them to guests

The earliest domesticates include:

grasses and dogs

Individuals who diverge from the male-female norm and exhibit sexual organs and functions somewhere between, including both male and female, are called:

intersex

For a big man in a non-state society, what is the most powerful and valuable tool?

persuasion

Which of the following is NOT a type of reciprocity distinguished by Marshall Sahlins?

positive

Anthropologists and other social scientists refer to ways in which social, economic, and political processes categorize and transform a population into racial meanings as:

radicalization

Prayer, eating, sacrifice, music, and transcendent states all have what function in the context of religion?

to help get in touch with the supernatural

According "The Berdache Tradition" a lack of tolerance for gender variation in some cultures is often reflected in their mythology and creation stories

true

In "Too Many Bananas" the author believed tobacco functioned like money.

true

One of the biggest problems found in industrial agriculture is overproduction

true

Patterns of social inequality and racial discrimination have important biological consequences for certain groups, such as African Americans

true

Secular rituals that celebrate the state or nation, particular occupations, or other identities may achieve many of the same ends as religious rituals:

true

The way in which most people incorporate the social and material aspects of their lives into biological experiences and outcomes is known as embodiment

true

Women provide most of the diet in foraging societies

true

"Berdache Tradition": Among the Lakota Sioux what vision might indicate that an individual will become a berdache

white buffalo calf