Anthro 201 Cultural Anthropology Test 1

ethno-etiology refers to the cross-cultural study of the

variations in the perceived causes for health problems and suffering

unlike Malinowski's research in the Trobriands, Annette Weiner's restudy the Trobriands addressed

women's lives and roles

the author of your anthropology text is..

Barbara Miller

an ethnography is

a descriptive writing about a culture

Mark Plotkin, in the film The Sherman's Apprentice, can be described as..

a harvard-trained ethnobotanist

pronatalism is ost characteristic of which mode of production?

agricultural

Jared Diamond calls the development of ... the worst mistake in the history of the human race

agriculture

the kula ring of the Trobriand Island is an example of..

balanced reciprocity (or exchange)

most anthropologists agree that "gender" classification is based on..

biology, culture and learned roles

the Ju/'hanse of the Kalahari Desert have a healing system best characterized as:

community-based

a mode of consumption in which people's demands are many and the means of satisfying them are insufficient is called..

consumerism

Franz Boas promoted the idea of ...,which maintains that no one culture was inherently superior or inferior to another.

cultural relativism

an anthropological approach that contains ethnocentrism is..

cultural relativism

anorexia nervosa, koro, and susto are examples of..

culture-specific systems

the insider perspective is called the

emic view

The tendency to apply one's own cultural values in judging the behavior and beliefs of people from other cultures is known as..

ethnocentrism

development of cultural theories through the cross-cultureal study f behavior found in various cultures is called..

ethnology

most cultural anthropologists would agree that culture is best defined as the effects of genetic heredity of human appearance.

false

over the entire span of human history, which mode of production was practiced by humans for the longest time?

foraging

microcultures, according to your textbook, can be formed on the basis of..

gender, race, and age

within their own traditional culture(s), Native Americans who take on "third gender roles," sometimes called berates, are most likely to experience..

general acceptance in their Native American society

the increased proliferation of global interdependence combined with the worldwide spread of Western technology and capitalism is referred to as..

globalization

according to Barbara Miller, a "disease of development" can be described as..

health problems associated with economic development activities that negatively affect the environment and people's relationship to it

the demographic transition from an agricultural mode of production to an industrial mode of production is characterized by a pattern change from..

higher fertility and higher mortality to lower fertility and lower mortality

research guided by one or more hypothesis, and which requires testing of hypothesis, is called..

holistic research

maintaining a fallow period is essential for the sustainability of which system?

horticulture

the mode of production based on growing food on small shifting garden plots is associated with

horticulture

critical medical anthropology examines

how economic and political power structures and inequality affect health

biological anthropologists are most likely to be interested in..

human evolution an human physical variation

your author uses the term "structural suffering" to refer to..

human health problems (often caused by political and/or economic decisions) related to war, violence, human abuse, forced migration, poverty, etc.

a study of the long history of humans indicates that population growth..

increased dramatically with the emergence of agriculture and food surpluses

which of the following occurs as humans move toward the industrialized/informatics end of the production continuum?

increased unbalanced exchange

"infinite needs" most characterize the consumption pattern found in which of the following production systems?

industrial-informatics

of the following production patterns, which is most associated with abundant task specialization and well-defined social stratification?

intensive agriculture

an approach to livelihood that involves continuous use of the same land and resources over time in called..

intensive strategy

balanced exchange..

involves reciprocal transfers with immediate o eventual balance in value

abortion

is often a response to economic conditions

the field of anthropology that studies human language and communication is called:

linguistic anthropology

anthropology in the US is usually divided into four fields. These include all of the following except..

paleontology

the research method in cultural anthropology that involves living within a culture for a relatively extended period while gathering data is called..

participant observation

the mode of production based on herding domesticated animals is called

pastoralism

the Kwakiutl ... potlatch is characterized by a lavish redistribution of wealth

potlatch

substaintial evidence indicates that ... is the primary (ultimate) cause of morbidity and mortality in both industrial and developing countries

poverty

the term "medical pluralism" refers to the

presence of multiple health systems within a society

in chapter4, your textbook links modes of reproduction to modes of

production

which of the following processes is essential in transmitting culture from one generation to the next?

socialization

Ethnomedicine refers to

the cross-cultural study of health systems

one thing about which most cultural anthropologists agree is

the importance of doing fieldwork

in Western science, positive results from a symbolic healing method is called

the placebo effect

Margaret Mead's research on adolescence in Samoa emphasized..

the significance of culture over nature in shaping adolescents' personalities