final exam 2410

One of the factors leading to Eritreans leaving their country is the indeterminate national service.

true

One way highland Papua New Guineans cope with pigs as pests is building or growing living fences.

true

Soil fertility is a problem in cultivating in tropical rain forest environments. One way highland Papua New Guineans cope with low soil fertility is long fallow periods.

true

Soil fertility is a problem in cultivating in tropical rain forest environments. One way highland Papua New Guineans cope with low soil fertility is mounding.

true

The incest taboo is a cultural universal for all existing cultures.

true

pastoralists are totally independent from agriculturalists

false

the author concluded that the refugees were dependent

false

the PRPC was opened in

1980

the author conducted research in the PRPC

1988-1990

chimpanees have the ability to make the same sounds that humans do

false

Vietnamese culture when doing the right thing is impossible the correct thing to do is

abstain, do nothing

in cultures with bilineal descent kinship is the basis of social organization

false

At marriage the kin of the wife give wealth to the family of the husband. This is __________

bride wealth

one of the characteristics of culture is innate

false

The belief that some locations or directions are imbued with some essence like good or bad is an example of:

cosmology

the range of cultures existing on earth is the subject of

cultural anthropology

In the online material on "Disputed Authority" the author explained that there were camp rules about boarding the buses that carried refugees around the camp and that the refugees ___________ follow the rules.

did not

one of the characteristics of horticulture is the use of machines

false

In the online material on economics in a refugee camp the support provided by the refugee's relatives was discussed. The support provided was for the refugee ______________.

disposable income

Marrying within a specified group of people is _________________

endogamy

based on the What is Anthropology ONLINE material answer the following: the origins of the discipline of anthropology are from

european exploration and colonialism

Marrying out side a specified group of people is ___________.

exogamy

paralanguage is

extra-linguistic noises that are important in conveying meaning

A state can persist when the real basis of social organization is kinship.

false

According to the online material the incest taboo has a biological basis.

false

According to the online material, dowry is when wealth from the wife's family is transferred to the family of the husband.

false

According to the online materil the definition of a refugee includes a well founded fear of famine.

false

All Eritreans who reach refugee camps want to resettle in Western countries.

false

Belloni, the author of the Big Gamble, believes that voluntary migrants and involuntary migrants (refugees) are completely different.

false

Highland PNG people believed that wealth came from sacred trees.

false

Human children are born knowing what to do and do not need to learn culture.

false

In generalized reciprocity you give with an expectation that you will receive more then you give.

false

In negative reciprocity you give with the expectation that you will receive negative back, i.e. less than you gave.

false

In the online material on 'Disputed Authority" there is a description of an incident where a camp security officer (blue guard) shot and killed a local Filipino. This incident was swiftly resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

false

Mead found that the period of adolescence for Samoans was as difficult as it is for Americans.

false

Once Eritreans reach a refugee camp they are guaranteed resettlement.

false

One of the characteristics of chiefdoms is acquired status and rank

false

The age at which people are expected to become productive members of a culture is the same in all cultures.

false

Using 'caretaker" language such as speaking to infants in higher tones makes a difference in language acquisition.

false

Vietnamese culture the concept of Nghia the righteous path includes quislyness

false

according to nelson the "field" where cultural anthropologists study a group of people is always in a remote isolated location

false

accoring to nelso everyone among the Jeninpopo-Kaninde agreed that they were Indio

false

accoring to nelson, Bronislaw Malinowski studied people in the Hawaiian Islands

false

archaeology relies on face to face intervies with the people they study

false

as pastoralists move their herds into pastures the group stays together as a whole

false

when you use the kin term "brother" or "sister" you are making a ______ distinction

gender

When you use the kin term "grand mother" you are making a gender and ____________ distinction.

generation

Cultures that are bilineal have ___________

kindreds

Living with or near the family of the wife after marriage is _______________

matri-local post marital residence

true pastoralists have

mobile households

the author of the study on the PRPC lived in a billet with refugees, ate the same food, experienced the same heat and typhoons. this research methodology

participant observation

core vocabulary is

prenouns, lower numberals, names for body parts

Anthropologists stress the __________ in exchanges while economists stress the rationality or cost benefit of an exchange.

social relations

A centralized political authority with the power to coerce is a ___________

state

the natural history approach to humans means

studying humans just like studying any other species

the design features of language include all of the following EXCEPT:

teleopathy

Vietnamese culture the concept of Ly is

that there is a natural order to the universe

In the online material on "The Riot" there are descriptions of who blamed who for the riot. The Filipinos who worked for the administration blamed ____________

the American expatriate staff

Vietnamese culture concept of De is

the relationship between brothers

PRPC section on Research presented the idea that the Vietnamese refugees benefited from their time in the PRPC because

they were surrounded by other Vietnamese

In the online material on economics in a refugee camp the amount of money the refugees received from their relatives was almost _________ during the time studied

three million dollars

"refugees" the hypotheses the author used when studying refugees in the PRPC was "refugees are dependent"

true

A man becomes a "big man" in highland PNG culture by giving away a lot in a pig feast.

true

Americans enculturate their children to believe that the causes of behavior are internal to the individual.

true

Belloni believe that the term "aspiration" is a better way to describe Eritrean's approach to seeking asylum and resettlement than "plan."

true

Belloni conducted research in Italy, Eritrea and Sudan.

true

Eritreans who stay in Eritrea and have relatives living in Western countries receive support from those relatives.

true

For a state to persist it must conscript labor

true

Human children during their second and third year mostly refine words and develop rules for putting words together.

true

If a human is NOT exposed to human speech before the age of 12 they will not be able to attain full linguistic ability

true

In balanced reciprocity you give with an expectation that you will receive something of equal value back.

true

In some cultures, such as highland Papua New Guinea, there is a sexual division of labor where males are expected to engage in certain activities and females in others.

true

In the Social Organization Papua New Guinea (PNG) example it was explained that the two major inputs into horticulture are land and labor. Highland PNG social organization provides access to these inputs. Access to labor is through marriage.

true

In the Social Organization Papua New Guinea (PNG) example it was explained that the two major inputs into horticulture are land and labor. Highland PNG social organization provides access to these inputs. Access to land is through clan membership.

true

Market exchanges are often dominated by middlemen engaged in arbitrage.

true

Mead found that among the Samoans during adolescence there was no pressure to have, or not have, sex.

true

Mead found that in Samoa children are raised by a variety of relatives, not just a mother and father.

true

Most modern states have bilineal kinship.

true

The reasons for Eritreans to flee their country are the result of a long history of war and displacement.

true

Tribe is a term not really used any more but it applies to groups of people whose social organization is based on kinship.

true

according to Lavenda and Schultz it is in the "preface" to an athnography where the author explains what the topic of the ethnography will be

true

according to Lavenda and Schultz, it is in the "introduction" to an ethnography where the author presents an "entrace narrative"

true

according to nelson "salvage ethnography" is an attempt to preserve a culture before it is lost or disappeas

true

according to nelson, Franz Boas human behavior was determined by culture, not biology

true

according to nelson, an anthropologist's own observations resulting rom living with and participating with the people they study is participant observation

true

bands tend to be egalitarian

true

hunter gatherers are highly mobile

true

hunter gatherers tend to be egalitarian

true

in lingustics signals are sounds or gestures that has a natural self-evident meaning

true

one of the changes in the human vocal tract from infants to children is the lowering of the larynx

true

one of the characteristics of culture is acquired

true

one of the characteristics of horticulture is vegetative propagation

true

one of the four branches of anthropology is linguistic anthropology

true

the author, katie nelson of Doing Fieldwork originally sought to study how the Jenipopo-Kaninde negotiated land rights without private land ownership

true

the defintion of culture is information stored in your head in the form of expectations of what other people will do and the physical world will be

true

the goal of reading an ethnography is to get a sense of a way of life different from your own

true

there are certain regions of the brain that have special language functions, such as Warnicke's area

true

what we consider food is acquired as part of our culture

true

babies are born

useless