ANTH 1101 Midterm Prep
Which statement is NOT true of kinship systems?
Cross-culturally, biology defines who one's closest relatives are.
Which term is defined as the way humans develop culture as an adaption to various environments?
Cultural ecology
Which term refers to the exchange of ideas and artifacts between cultures as a result of migration of globalization?
Cultural hybridity
Which description BEST defines gender?
Cultural roles associated with the biological categories of male and female
Share values, ideas, technologies, adaption to the environment, and belief system are best defined as what?
Culture
As listed in the article, what plays a role in understanding of racial identity? A. Community B. Workplaces C. Personal Experiences D. All of the above
All of the above
What organization said that the racial worldview was invented to assign some groups to low status and some to high status?
American Anthropological Association
Which of the following would NOT be considered a rite of intensification?
Baptizing an infant
Which anthropologist became famous for her book "Coming of Age in Samoa"?
Margaret Mead
Which of the following does NOT explain the variation of skin pigmentation in humans?
Mendelian heredity
Sex dimorphism is defined as which of the following?
The exhibition different characteristics by male and female of the same species
What percentage of the world's languages are in danger of dying out in the next hundred years?
40 percent
Acheulean tools were modified on both sides, resulting in a symmetrical tool with two faces, also known as _______.
A biface
What is a ghost marriage?
A marriage performed between one or two deceased individuals
What is meant by the term monotheistic religion?
A religion that recognizes only a single named god or goddess
Which term refers to a social organization in which certain people have more power or prestige than others?
A social hierarchy
Which statement does NOT describe European colonialism in Africa?
Africans were encouraged to start import-export trade and their own factories.
Which term refers to the belief that god can't be known and therefore skepticism is appropriate?
Agnosticism
Which of the following best defines language?
An open-ended system of communication with a set of rules that allows an infinite number of meanings.
What is the name for the period in which human activity has been the dominant influence on Earth's climate and the natural environment?
Anthropocene epoch
What are the four subdisciplines in American Anthropology?
Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology
Which species was long regarded as the earliest hominin to use stone tools?
Homo habilis
Which of the following is NOT a typical outcome of forced migration?
Increase in economic wealth
A hiring manager does not hire someone based on the color of their skin rather than their qualifications for the job. This is an example of what type of racism?
Individual racism
Which description BEST defines immigrants?
Individuals who move permanently from one country to another
Which term refers to the movement of people from rural to urban areas for education, employment, etc.?
Internal migration
Which term refers to the intersection of race, class ethnicity, age, gender, and physical ability?
Intersectionality
According to the article, what is wrong with the dictionary definition of race?
It does not mention race as a social construct
What is meant by the phrase "the homeyness of culture"?
It refers to the idea that culture is what is familiar and what feels like home.
Who conducted one of the earliest studies of kinship systems?
Lewis Henry Morgan
What is the term for a man talking condescendingly to someone (especially a woman) about something he has incomplete knowledge of, with the mistaken assumption that he knows more about it than the person he's talking to?
Mansplaining
Which term refers to socialized prejudice against women and feminism?
Misogyny
Which term describes how modern capitalist interests continue to pressure poor nations through economic, political, or military means?
Neocolonialism
________ portrays peoples of Asia and the Middle East as irrational, fanatical, and out of control.
Orientalism
Which term describes the marriage of one man to more than one woman at the same time?
Polygyny
Which of the following is a quantitative approach in sociocultural research?
Population demographics
Since the 18th century, views of Africans and Native Americans have been shaped by the obscuring lens of ______.
Primitivism
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares which of the following regarding refugees?
Refugees have an international right to seek asylum
What occurs when a social movement changes the structures of the political system, whether through peaceful or violent action?
Revolution
E.B. Tylor suggested that each culture progressed from ______ to ______ then to ______.
Savagery, Barbarism, Civilization
Which of the following is NOT considered an example of material culture?
Seashells found on a beach
During the time of salvage anthropology, which institution frequently hired anthropologists to live on Native American reservations to support efforts to preserve native languages?
Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology
What term describes organized actions by a group outside of the government to create social change?
Social movements
Which term refers to a hierarchical organization of different groups of people based on traits such as race, socioeconomic status, religion, or gender?
Social stratification
What subfield of linguistic examines the social context of language?
Sociolinguistics
What did Margaret Mead observe in her research in New Guinea?
That gender roles and expectations varied greatly from one culture to the next
Which of the following is NOT true regarding the role of myth in religion?
The power of myth depends of its ability to portray accurate and true accounts of history
Which of the following BEST describes the primary focus of political anthropologists?
The role of history and the dynamic relationships of a culture
What term describes an institution that exercises centralized rule over a territory?
The state
What best explains the loss of hair in humans, ultimately leading to the wearing of clothes?
Thermoregulation
Which statement is NOT true of naming ceremonies?
They are specific to preliterate societies.
True of False: These two species of Ignacius are the only two primate-like species known to live in the Arctic Circle.
True
True or False: Ignoring race means ignoring the establishment of racial hierarchies in society and the injustices these hierarchies have created and continue to reinforce.
True
True or False: It is possible to non-human primates, or primate like animals to evolve to living in the arctic again.
True
Which of the following is an example of a blended family?
Two widowed individuals with children who marry
According to British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, under what circumstances did unmarried adult males take on male wives in Zande society?
When there was a scarcity of available women
Cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz used the example of winking and blinking to illustrate important aspects of culture. According to Geertz, which of these is an aspect of culture?
Winking but not blinking
What primate did the article compare the two fossil species to looking like?
lemur
Fat-tailed dwarf lemurs experience ______ during the dry season to conserve energy.
torpor
What was the goal of salvage anthropology during the 19th century?
Collect cultural material of peoples that were considered to be in danger of disappearing
What epoch did these two species live in?
Eocene
Which of these is NOT a relative dating method?
Radiocarbon dating
Ethnocentrism is ________.
The idea that one cultural way of life is superior to others and should be imposed on everyone else.
Which of the following BEST describes hierophany?
The manifestation of the sacred or divine
Which of the following BEST defines systemic oppression?
The normalization of political, economic, and social inequalities in a society
