Anthropology Exam 3 Quiz Questions

which of the following is an element of violence?

-a highly visible assertion of power -the use of force to cause harm to someone or something -it is an efficient way to transform a social environment

the ghost dance among the Sioux in the 1890s was

-an attempt to recover self respect -a new religious movement responding to white encroachment on their lands -drawing on a mix of older and newer religious concepts

illness is an experience that is

-exacerbated by class differences -subjective -shaped by culture

anthropologists now understand that magic

-is at the basis of many rituals -usually involves working at a distance without direct physical contact -is often frightening or dangerous

people participate in globalization by

-migrating to distant cities for work -consuming coca-cola -watching TV

which of the following are areas of social activity that globalization affects?

-migration -communication -finances

a synonym of hybridization is

-syncretism -friction -creolization

an explanation given for medicalizing the nonmedical is

-to increase the prestige of physicians -the growth in profits for insurance and pharmaceutical companies -the desire of people to see social problems in scientific terms

Hijras interests anthropologists mainly because they are

a reflection of a gender/sex system that sees meaning in combining male and female

the most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to

accumulate prestige

a good example of the process of medicalization is found in the changing understanding of which of the following conditions as a disease?

alcoholism

anthropologist George Gmelch studied which sport where he found that players used a lot of magic

baseball

the theory that explains why cultural differences have not disappeared because cultural consciousness is increasingly bringing people together around cultural similarities is

clash of civilizations theory

violence between ethnic groups is not inevitable, but the idea that it is persists. Which of the following is not a reason for its persistence?

ethnic groups actually do fight with each other all the time

when social norms dictate that someone from a particular clan must marry outside of the clan, anthropologists say that the clan is

exogamous

T or F corruption is only a serious problem in non western societies

false

T or F globalization is exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before

false

T or F people in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion

false

one of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that

global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves

it is suggested in the text that the appearance of some mental illnesses are showing up in other countries where they did not previously exist, and this may be result of

globalization

health and illness

have much variation throughout different cultures and societies

what is the "subjectivity of illness"?

how people understand and experience their condition on a personal level

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

intersex

which of the following is not true about hybridization theories?

it explains why conflict is growing in the world

anthropologists have studied hundreds of different kinship systems around the world over the past century, but they can all be grouped into six different patterns, this has resulted in the development of

kinship terminologies

a voodoo doll is a good illustration of

magic that follows the law of similarity

the term politics can mean many things, but from the wider anthropological perspective, it is understood as talking about the relationships and processes of all of the following except

media

what subfield of anthropology tries to understand how social, cultural, biological and linguistic factors shape the health of human beings in different cultures?

medical anthropology

nearly all societies draw on more than one medical tradition simultaneously, a process which is called

medical pluralism

which of the following refers to the family into which is born and raised?

natal family

what is the family formed by a married couple and their children called?

nuclear family

for a big man in a non state society, what is the most powerful and valuable tools

persuasion

marriage takes different forms in different place, all the terms listed below are forms of marriage except

polyamory

which of the following is not a political act?

posting what you had for dinner on Facebook

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

racialization

what is a life cycle ritual that marks a person's or group of persons' transition from one social state to another?

rite of passage

stylized performances involving symbols that are associated with social, political, and religious activities are called

rituals

from an anthropological perspective, sex assignment surgery is useful because it

shows that sex is constructed upon cultural assumptions

a key feature of religious beliefs and behavior is that they are rooted in

social behavior and social action

while the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973, the same classification of homosexuality as "abnormal" label continued to allow the US government to reject immigrants. This ability to classify individuals according to a state of normal and abnormal is an example of the use

social power

violence is

socially constructed

which of the following is an example of American totemism?

sports team mascots

power that transcends individuals, operating in settings and orchestrating settings in which social and individual actions take place, is

structural power

the importance of a phenomenon like "revenge suicide" in Papua New Guinea is that it demonstrates

that the non-powerful have ways of exercising political power

the work of Paul Farmer in Haiti to combat AIDS revealed much more than the underlying problems inherent in the clinical pathology and transmission of the disease, including

the connection between health and socioeconomic and political conditions there

Geertz's approach to religion is a style of analysis that looks at the underlying symbolic and cultural interconnections within a society; this is often referred to as

the interpretive approach

Hawaiians and other Polynesian Islanders traditionally believed that mana, sacred or supernatural power, existed within certain objects, at sacred spaces, and in persons, including all of the following except

the sun

T or F localization is the flip side of globalization

true

weddings and marriages are usually less about the couple than about relationships with the couple's social network, including friends and family

true

women who practice polyandry tend to marry

two or more brothers