Anthropology

According to Martha's research, about how many Pohnpeians have been adopted (lifted up)?

25%

Pohnpeian language has ___ levels of language use.

3

Pohnpeian funerals last a minimum of ___ days.

4

Trading goods and services directly for other goods and services without the use of money as a medium of exchange is called

Barter

Sahngoro, High Chief of U, wanted the Seebees to do what?

Bring him a piece of the moon

The deep felt belief that your culture is superior to all others.

Ethnocentrism

Anthropological research in which one learns about the culture of another society through fieldwork and first hand observation.

Ethnography

An anthropological study that systematically compares similar cultures.

Ethology

As the use of general purpose money draws a society into the global economic system, it results in economic independence for the society as a whole.

False

Nightcrawling is a type of nightmare common throughout Micronesia.

False

Pohnpeian treatments for illness are very similar to Western medical practices.

False

Pohnpeians called breadfruit-- "fruit in the hands of men."

False

Pohnpeians greet their leaders in the same open manner that is found in all cultures and places.

False

Polyandry is a common marriage practice.

False

Proprietary deed has been strongly supported by Native peoples of North America.

False

The map below is typical of how office space is used in Japan.

False

The most common kin naming pattern in North America and Europe today is known as the Crow system.

False

The word "consanguinity" comes from Latin roots meaning "consequences of marriage."

False

Water seal toilets were quickly adopted by many Pohnpeian families.

False

Occasionally, a third category of bond, referred to as _____ kinship is used to create links to people who otherwise would not be kinsmen.

Fictive

Pohnpei is part of _______, a series of 2,141 islands located ________.

Micronesia/between Hawaii and the Philippines.

Because Martha and Roger did not own pigs, they were considered by Pohnpeian standards to be

Not proper adults

Which of the following is true of the Omaha, Crow, and Iroquois kin naming systems?

They all distinguish between parallel and cross cousins.

According to Martha Ward, some younger men have given up seeking titles in the traditional system.

True

According to Sohn Alpet, feelings of jealousy and greed toward others is the same as sending a curse.

True

According to the tutorial, the performance of rituals is an integral part of all religions.

True

All of the large-scale societies of the world today have market economies.

True

All societies have incest taboos.

True

As the result of culture shock, Roger committed bizarre acts such as writing postcards to 200 people he would not send Christmas cards to, lurking behind trees to take pictures of bare-breasted women, and ordering useless items to be sent from his home town.

True

Bilateral descent, the one practiced mostly in North Amercia, is rare among the societies of the world.

True

For Pohnpeians, places have personalities and spiritual characteristics.

True

For the Indians of Western North America, coyote usually plays a trickster role in popular stories.

True

Gift exchanges create and strengthen social relationships.

True

Ideal behavior is what we think we should be doing and what we want others to believe we are doing.

True

In Pohnpei, females typically begin to have sexual relations between 11 and 14.

True

In a belief system that uses magic as the most logical explanation for illness, accidents, and other unexpected occurrences, there is no room for natural causes or chance. Witchcraft provides the explanation--it can be the cause for most effects.

True

In the United States, almost any simple market exchange involves the interaction of people all over the world and elaborate technology used in production and distribution.

True

Kinship provides a means for transmitting status and property from generation to generation.

True

Language used by a culture primarily reflects that culture's interests and concerns.

True

Neolocal residence occurs when a newly married couple establishes their home independent of both sets of relatives. While only about 5% of the world's societies follow this pattern, it is popular and common in urban North America today.

True

Not all rituals are religious.

True

Participant observation is one of the methods used for gathering data.

True

People do not always follow their culture's descent principles precisely. Kinship is often manipulated.

True

Pohnpeian men keep secret garden plots to grow foods for feasts.

True

Sohn Alpet held a feast to rid the research team of a curse that plagued the group in Wene.

True

Some men in Pohnpei achieve status in both the traditional and modern political systems.

True

The World Health Organization removed homosexuality as an illness from their classification of diseases.

True

The least complex kin naming pattern is found in the Hawaiian system.

True

When asked about something, Pohnpeian women typically defer to their husband; they do not see their opinion as significant.

True

With patrilineal descent, both males and females belong to their father's kin group but not their mother's.

True

Your husband or wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law are all kinsmen related to you through marriage.

True

The use of a stick to "fish out" food from a crevice is

a learned behavior pattern using culture.

According to Martha Ward's description of Floyd,

all of the above.

Which of the following does not involve the belief in a supernatural being?

animatism

In Pohnpei, your marriage is called a "true marriage" when you

are married with the blessing of the church

The kinds of societies that are most likely to have subcultures.

complex, diverse

Suspending one's judgments in order to understand and appreciate another culture.

cultural relativity

All of the following are foods you would find at a Pohnpeian feast except

deer

Learning about how people categorize things in their environment provides important insights into the interests, concerns, and values of their culture. The study of these concerns is called

ethnoscience

Which of the following does not belong?

facts

Islanders believe that kava

fell to the island from a heavenly garden

Pohnpei is more densely populated in the ______ regions that have ______.

lowland/less rainfall.

The diagram above exemplifies a ___centric family.

matri

In which kinship descent pattern would you most likely find the following scenario? A king's own biological son does not inherit the kingship because he is not a member of the ruling family group.

matrilineal

Triangles represent ___.

men

Which of the following are characteristic of non-market economies?

none of the above

When there are many gods in a religion, they are typically ranked relative to each other in terms of their powers and their interests. The supreme god is:

often an otiose deity

The main effect of Kava is

serenity

In the kinship diagram below, the person labeled K is L's:

sister

What normally functions as rudimentary credit institutions in non-market economies?

social ties including kinship

Anthropologists in Pohnpei had to establish trust with the community despite

suspicion of CIA spying.

When Jane talks to a friend and mentions her parents, she will most likely use ___________________ for them.

terms of reference

"The Pagen" claimed that he could sell Roger a magical spell that would guarantee

the complete obedience of his wife, Martha.

An activity that results in an altered state of consciousness for religious purposes is called

trancing

The break-up of the former empire of the Soviet Union into largely ethnic based nations is an example of ___________ .

tribalism