Anth 101G UVU
What did Allen say about the vicissitudes of fortune?
That through them people monitor their relationship with sacred places.
As evidence of racism in classification systems, Johann Blumenbach (1752-1840):
judged the ideal type of human skull to be from sub-Saharan Africa.
Native speakers of the Lakota language were amused when they saw the movie Dances with Wolves because the:
language was all female oriented.
A system of communication using sounds, gestures, or marks that are put together in meaningful ways according to a set of share rules is called a(n):
language.
As part of your job, you may study the frequency of blood types in human populations, or watch the behavior of monkeys and apes, or dig for early hominid bones in East Africa. You are a(n):
physical anthropologist.
The cultural definitions of what it means to be a male or female today:
stem from biological differences that are less significant today.
What did the chronicler Gutierrez describe?
A ritual battle in which men fought each other with hard fruit and slingshots.
The number of mobile cellular users worldwide in early 2016 is nearly:
3.8 billion.
Phukuy provides what?
A good opportunity to show off ritual prowess
Women have little to no power in Sonqo, since men make the decision and occupy the public positions of authority.
False
When is chansanakuy expected to take palce in Sonqo?
At funeral wakes
What genus is the hominin species living prior to one million years ago collectively called?
Australopithecus
Which are the main events for developing ritual kin?
Baptisms, weddings, and first haircuts
Why didn't Don Luís reject Catherine Allen and Rick's petition to stay in Sonqo with his family when they first went to do field work?
Because they had documents
_____ set a new standard for fieldwork in anthropology through his research with the Trobriand people.
Bronislaw Malinowski
The most famous Homo erectus discovery was in:
China.
What is it that plays a key role in every ritual Allen witnessed in Sonqo?
Consumption and overconsumption
Edward Hall designated four categories of proxemically relevant spaces. Which of the following is incorrect?
Conventional (7-10 feet)
What are the two affective tides among Sonqo Runakuna?
Cooperation and hostility
A doctrine is a type of scientific theory.
False
Ayllus only include the living people of Sonqo and not those who have died.
False
Carolus Linnaeus based his classificatory system on body structure and function.
False
Coca exchange focuses primarily on the economic aspects of the leaves and the act.
False
Everything that humans do well is adaptive.
False
The current Code of Ethics for anthropology is devised and implemented by the American Association of Practicing Anthropologists.
False
The earliest Australopithecines were found in southern and western Africa.
False
The earth is benign.
False
The sexes are general tender with each other, especially in a romantic relationship.
False
The speacialist gives the person a list that is carefully composed so people can buy those specific ingredients and bring them to the offering.
False
While in Sonqo they tell the myth of origins of the Incas in Wanakawri, in Cusco they tell of their termination by fleeing through Colquepata on their way to the jungle and Paititi.
False
When do people drink chicha
For special occasions
From where did the ancestors of the people of Sonqo come?
From the earth itself
What has happened as a result of children spending more time in school or going to work in Cuzco?
Grown women take on the demanding and time consuming task of herding in addition to everything else.
Which of the following is important for understanding the traditional loss of blood in ritual battle?
It is necessary to perpetuate life
Which of the following are of greatest importance in human speech?
Larynx and epiglottis
What does Allen see as a central idea for understanding the Runakuna's ideas and practices about food?
That food transforms into excrement.
When the people of Sonqo call a woman wira, fat, what does it mean?
That she has substantial character and prosperity.
Which of the following research projects would not belong to the province of linguistic anthropology?
Reconstructing the evolution of the big toe to find out at what time humans began to walk upright
Who is celebrated in Sonqo during the rainy season?
The Mamachas, the female figures
What do the sacred male and female images embody?
The idea of continuously enfolding oppositions.
In the unsuccessful ritual of the Holy Cross in Sonqo, what was missing?
The outpouring of high spirits in dance, song, and libation.
What do the people of Sonqo say happens in August?
The parched Earth cracks open to drink the first rains.
The daily routine for the Sonqo Runakuna takes shape around what?
The tasks necessary for household maintenance
How do Pacha and the Tirikuna communicate with human beings?
Through coca.
Among the Canela, it is improper for a mother, sister, or daughter to cut a man's hair.
True
Andeans have long held the idea that the spiritual idnentity and power of the dead is located in their dessicated physical remains.
True
By its very nature, the ayllu needs the tinku to define itself.
True
Chansanakuy, according to Allen is a paradigmatic summing up of social relations as Runakuna know them.
True
Cross-cultural studies show that homicide rates mostly decline after the death penalty is abolished.
True
Drinking is very much a communal process and people are expected to not drink in isolation.
True
Evolution explains the diversity of life by using hypotheses.
True
Examples of socially learned behavior are particularly evident among other primates.
True
For the people of Sonqo, the daily routine is imbued with ritual significance.
True
In a culture, there is a difference between ideal and real behaviors.
True
In sonqo people feel an obligation to shower others with constant endearment and reassurance.
True
Just as people feed each other they have to feed the Earth and Sacred Places, because they have voracious appetites.
True
Knowing the Tirakuna's individual personalities can be as important as knowing the personalities of one's neighbors in Sonqo.
True
One of the basic functions of the long and complex rituals performed by the people of Sonqo is to maintain the people's relationship with the earth shrines.
True
One of the first advocacy projects in anthropology was among the Meskwaki (or, Fox Indians) in Iowa.
True
One way that culture is preserved and shared is by language.
True
Tirakuna orient the people of Sonqo in ways that are both emotional and cognitive.
True
While ethnography is the in-depth study of a single culture, ethnology is the comparative study of culture.
True
Women support and anchor the life of the community.
True
Humans are programmed for language.
True
Lakota is a language that uses gendered speech.
True
Over the past 500 years, about half of the world's 12,000 languages have become extinct.
True
How do Sonqo's alcalde and his wife receive guests during Carnival?
With chicha, coca, food, and trago
How do Runakuna approach unknown Tirakuna?
With interest and apprehension
Chantek was able to do all of the following except:
communicate through verbal words.
All of the following were differences between Bronislaw Malinowski's original field research in the Trobriands and that of Annette Weiner some 60 years later except:
differences in researchers' disciplines.
The study by Jefferey Snodgrass which conducted participant-observation research related to the video game "World of Warcraft" is called:
digital ethnography.
The central and most highly developed human system of communication is:
language.
The most important symbolic aspect of culture is:
language.
The hypothesis that modern humans originated through a process of simultaneous local transition from H. erectus to H. sapiens throughout the inhabited world is called:
multiregional hypothesis.
All of the following exacerbated the Rohingya situation except:
the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Clyde Snow is an anthropologist who:
used forensic evidence to investigate "disappearances" in Argentina.
China is a pluralistic society. Which ethnic group dominates others in China and has a socially and politically ethnocentric ruling policy
Han
Why are informal interviews central to ethnographic fieldwork?
They are casual exchanges in which the anthropologists can gain insight into the things that matter most to the cultural group.
Which of the following is not goal of science?
To eliminate the need to use the imagination
What was the focus of Annette Weiner's research in the Trobriands?
Women's productive work
Acculturation is best defined as:
a process of unequal culture contact when a smaller culture is forced to adopt some of the ways of the dominant society.
In her field site, because of political unrest, June Nash was accused of:
being a CIA agent.
Anthropologists advise that it is best to:
do your first fieldwork in a culture other than your own.
The term that refers to worldwide interconnectedness, signified by global movements of natural resources, trade goods, human labor, finance capital, information, and infectious diseases is known as:
globalization.
Though pastoral nomadic peoples are often blamed for causing environmental degradation, the fault is often not theirs. Rather, in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa it is caused by:
governments that restrict their movements causing overgrazing.
One of the first Neanderthals was discovered:
in the Neander Valley in 1856.
All of the following are part of the theory of natural selection except:
individuals with better adaptation will more selectively reproduce, favoring less offspring that are better cared for.
Among the Kapauku Papuans of New Guinea, the fact that an attempt to eliminate warfare (which would create a balanced sex ratio) would affect the practice of polygyny, which would affect the economy (since women raise pigs, and the more wives a man has, the more pigs he can keep), shows that culture is:
integrated.
As represented by the barrel model of culture, culture is an integrated system that responds to a combination of:
internal factors.
All of the following are characteristics of scientific thought regarding the theory of evolution except:
it does not account for the diversity of life.