ANT 160 Final Lecture Quizzes

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What is animism?

A belief in spirit entities.

What are lineages?

A consanguineal kin group practicing unilineal descent, which includes persons who can actually trace their relationship to a common ancestor.

What is the difference between genocide and a civil war?

A genocide results in the extermination of everyone of a defined group, including unarmed men, women and children while a civil war is usually fought between armed men with the goal not to kill women and children.

As indicated in the video "The Stream - Cousin Marriages: Tradition versus Taboo", what are the benefits to cousin marriages?

All of the answers given

How are clans different from lineages?

All of the answers given

How can nation-states be built?

All of the answers given

What are cooperatives?

All of the answers given

What does the term "imagined communities" refer to as indicated in the lecture material?

All of the answers given

What is religion's purposes and functions?

All of the answers given

What types of human entities practice territoriality?

All of the answers given

What does nationalism mean?

All of the answers provided.

What is an ethnic group?

Both choices; an imagined community and peoples who feel connected somewhat like kin who have a common history and ancestral territory.

What is religion?

Both choices; the quest for meaning; a supernatural reality; to understand and be in balance and the sacred and the profane.

What changes are discussed in terms of husband and wife relations?

Both women can speak up now to their husband's and they are no longer very obedient to their mother in laws.

Which of the following is not identified as a form of socio-political entity?

Capitalism

According to the article by Colin Woodard, there seem to be how many different "nations" or major sub-cultures in North America and what does he attribute this to?

Eleven; migration

Should the "state" protect the rights of the ethnic group or the individual?

In a democratic state, the state must protect the rights of the individual.

Where does the film "The Triumph of Evil" take place?

In central Africa

The United States has sometimes been called a _________ because of the different cultural and ethnic backgrounds of the people living within it's territorial borders.

Melting pot

Is it always easy to differentiate between ethnic groups?

No

What part of the world does the dance take place in?

Northwest South America

In the film "Dadi's Family", what type of kinship descent pattern is illustrated?

Patrilineal

When the term "First Nations" is used in the article or lecture, what does that mean?

Political entities of indigenous peoples who were the first occupants of North America.

What are the ways that humans contact the supernatural?

Praying, fasting, mortification of flesh, preaching, sacrifices, and use of drugs are all used to contact supernatural.

What are the three stages of a ritual expressed in the dance and outlined in the lecture on rituals?

Preliminal, liminal, and postliminal

How are ranked societies defined?

Societies comprised of kinship groups that vary in prestige or social esteem.

As indicated in the video "The Stream - Cousin Marriages: Tradition versus Taboo", the prevalence of cousin marriages would be higher in which of the following societies?

Societies where there is less equality between individuals and families.

What are the two aspects or dimensions of territoriality mainly outlined in the lecture?

Spatial and temporal

According to Max Weber (1992/1968), what are the three dimensions to social stratification?

Status (prestige), wealth, and power.

What is ascribed status?

Status or position one is born into.

Who is Dadi and she refers to whom as the inferior cast? Does she think that education helps women?

The Grandmother, women, yes.

How is a family defined and who controls the land and money (salaries)? How do these things appear to be changing with modernization/ education/ industrialization?

The extended family, the eldest husband and wife of the extended family, nuclear families and not extended families are increasing.

In a globalized market economy, what appears to be the main goal for exchanges and trade?

The goal to make a profit.

What is genocide?

The physical extermination of a defined category of people.

Why might the families in the village be happier when a boy baby is born than when a girl baby is born?

The society is patrilineal.

What seems to be the deference between the terms "state" and "nation-state"?

The state is an externally recognized political/ territorial unit while a nation-state is recognized by the people in it as a justifiable political/ territorial unit.

What is magic?

The use of chants, charms, etc. to pretend to or to try to influence future events, taking the supernatural into one's own hands.

According to the lecture material, to be indigenous to an area means what?

To be the first peoples to occupy a territory.

What seems to be the objectives of NGO's (non-governmental organizations)?

To represent local peoples in relations with larger governmental business entities.

Where do women move when they get married and what is the term for this?

To their husband's home, Patrilocal

When a clan's apical ancestor is non-human, it is called a?

Totem

The idea of "the gift" can be seen as expressed in two dimensions during the dance. What are these dimensions?

Vertical reciprocal animism and horizontal social heterarchy.

According to the article by Colin Woodard, does the background of people from different parts of the United States (i.e where their ancestors came from, what they believed and other aspects of lifestyle) affect how these people might think about current issues, like gun control?

Yes

According to the article, is the language spoken by people in these different "nations" also related to where the early European and other immigrants came from?

Yes

Although the goal of big business is to acquire a profit, do they also supply local jobs which makes it hard to envision a world without them?

Yes

Are nation-states made up of different ethnic groups?

Yes

In a globalized world prior to the COVID-19 virus, were people and information able to travel more freely and easily around the world?

Yes

Are there other areas of the world today where genocide might be occurring?

Yes like in the Sudan or Myanmar (Burma)

Should the United Nations step into countries where genocide or ethnic cleansing is occurring?

Yes, because all humans have basic rights.

As indicated in the video "The Stream - Cousin Marriages: Tradition versus Taboo", can there be health consequences to cousin marriage practices?

Yes, genetic disorders and diseases that run in family lines may be carried by both cousins and affect their offspring.

Do these ethnic groups believe in animism? Give one example.

Yes; they wear masks representing spirit entities.


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