Anthropology Module 6-10
Incest within the nuclear family is known in Pohnpei as "self dating"
"eating a rotten corpse"
According to Martha Ward, all of the following are part of the "global trio" except:
AIDS
Which of the following statements is true of ethnicity?
All of the above.
What did Martha receive from other women?
All the above
Which of the following regions have the largest number of people?
Asia
Which of the following statements is true?
Ethnic and racial groups are largely cultural and historical constructs rather than biological facts.
"Evil Gazing" is a type of witchcraft.
False
A likely candidate for acculturation is a society that is militarily and culturally equal to the society with which it is in contact.
False
Besides Martha, other female anthropologists have failed to even reach Pohnpei, let alone do any fireldwork there.
False
During Sohn Alpets funeral, Martha went hunting for wild boar.
False
Pohnpei's international fishing and agricultural ventures have been an unquestionable success.
False
Pohnpeian adoption is now almost unknown. A 2000 census reveled that only 4 percent of Pohnpeian were "lifted up." True
False
The average life span of Micronesians is higher now than ever before.
False
The vast majority of Americans (97.6%) reported that they belong to more than one "race."
False
Unfortunately, Kava has become illegal throughout Micronesia, including Pohnpei.
False
According to Ward, several families reported they were without money and could not even feed themselves.
Flase
According to the tutorial, those who have an indigenous world-view maintain an emotional detachment between people and the realms of nature and the supernatural.
Flase
Pohnpeian predictions came true, Martha had a baby boy.
Flase
Roger inherited Sohn Alpet's title of Nahnid Lapalap
Flase
The largest American minority group is:
Hispanics
Some ethnic groups essentially have been created by themselves for the rational goal of gaining political and economic power through unity. Based on what you learned in the tutorial, what American ethnic group did this since World War II?
Latinos
Which of the following statements is true of world-views?
Neither of the above
Kuru is a fatal culture specific disease of the brain and nervous system that was found among the South Foré people of the eastern Borneo
New Guinea
Ritual ceremonies intended to mark the transition from one phase of life to another are called
Right of Passage
Which of the following statements is true?
Successful socialization can result in uniformity within a society.
Which of the following statements is true?
The general public's belief in the efficacy of both naturalistic and personalistic medical systems is at least partly based on faith rather than objective proof.
Which of the following was characteristic of the Cargo Cults, the Ghost Dance Movements, and the Naparama Spirit Army?
They all had prophets.
According to Martha, Micronesians have come to regard health care as a social right, a service the government owes them.
True
According to Martha, if anything, conversion to Christianity seems to have empowered Pohnpeian women.
True
According to Nest in the Wind, Men and Women assume different, yet equally important roles.
True
Culture loss is an inevitable result of old cultural patterns being replaced by new ones.
True
Cultures are constantly changing.
True
Diffusion is the movement of things and ideas from one culture to another.
True
During her time on the island, Martha became pregnant.
True
Ethnic groups may be either a minority or a majority in a population.
True
Illness is highly culture related (e.g. it can involve spiritual imbalance) while disease usually is not culture specific.
True
In the final analysis, it is clear that people, not nature, create our identities. Ethnicity and supposed "racial" groups are largely cultural and historical constructs. They are primarily social rather than biological phenomena.
True
In traditional societies, incest is seen less as child abuse and more as an affront to social relations and kinship.
True
Kava is used to forgive each others transgressions.
True
Martha and Roger eventually divorced.
True
Martha claims that during her original fieldwork, she could not see the worth of Women's work in Pohnpei because she could not see the worth of her own work.
True
Most ethnic and "racial" minorities are concentrated in major urban centers and in particular states.
True
Most of the anthropologists and epidemiologists who worked on the original blood pressure study on Pohnpei died from heart disease.
True
Most of the major health problems in the poorer nations are due to parasitic worms and microorganisms.
True
Most people in the Western World today think of time as being fixed in nature.
True
On Pohnpei, the average family spends 40 percent of their income on imported food, beverages, alcohol and tobacco.
True
Over the last two centuries, there has developed a progressive disparity in wealth between nations and between major regions.
True
Personality types and stress are now considered less important to understanding the causes of high blood pressure than exercise and diet.
True
Placebos are especially effective when both the patient and the doctor believe that they really can cure an ailment.
True
Pohnpei is home to the capital of the F.S.M.
True
Pohnpeians have highly fluid households. About 75 percent of households reported members other than the nuclear family living with them.
True
Pohnpeians insist that a person's personality is closed off to others.
True
Processed white rice has replaced taro as the core starch food.
True
Rural Pohnpeians saw a difference in the personalities of urban Pohnpeians.
True
Several of Sohn Alpet's relatives believe he was a victim of sorcery.
True
Small indigenous societies have suffered as a consequence of the spread of western culture over the last century.
True
Suicide rates in Pohnpei are a concern. Correct! True
True
Taxis race through Kolonia.
True
The tradition-oriented personality is one that places a strong emphasis on doing things the same way that they have always been done.
True
The use of terms such as "people of color" for African, Asian, and Native Americans in a sense stigmatizes European Americans as "people without color"--a negative classification.
True
Way-side stores in Pohnpei rarely earn money.
True
Well over half of all American Hispanics claimed to be Mexican.
True
While English is not spoken as a native language by the largest number of people, it is the most world wide in its distribution.
True
Which of the following did Martha find upon her return to Pohnpei?
Wal-Mart
Which of the following statements is true?
We often share personality traits with others, especially members of our own family and community.
Diseases that are due mostly to environmental changes, increased population densities, and pollution that result from modernization in third world nations are referred to as:
diseases of development
An individual's actions are most likely to be strongly controlled by conscience if they have a(n) __________________ type of personality?
inner-directed personality
What was served to Martha in a bottle at Nan Paradise?
kava
Throughout most of U.S. history, the "drop of blood" criterion for racial ideterm-4ntification was used to:
label someone with even a small amount of African ancestry as "Black"
Which of the following things are usually characteristic of both traditional folk curers and modern medical doctors?
neither of the above
Spanish colonial authorities forced Christianity upon the Maya Indians of Guatemala and Mexico. However, the Maya defined some of the Christian saints as also being their ancient Indian gods. This is an example of:
syncretism
Among the Saora tribe of India, young men and women sometimes exhibit abnormal behavior patterns that Western trained doctors would likely define as a mental disorder. These young people cry and laugh at inappropriate times, have memory loss, pass out, and claim to experience the sensation of being repeatedly bitten by ants. The Saora explain this odd behavior as being due to ___________________ ?
the actions of supernatural beings who want to marry them
The spoken languages that are now becoming extinct are doing so mostly because:
their speakers find it more useful to speak other languages
The intermarriage rate for African Americans has been lower than for Asian and Latin Americans. A likely explanation of this is that:
there is a lower resistance to assimilation in Asian and Latin American communities
At the present time, the majority of the 100 biggest economies in the world are:
transnational corporations.
