Anthropology Test Questions Chapter 2

people make sense of the world through binary oppositions

The structuralist approach to culture theorizes what?

controlling symbols that give meaning

"Owning" culture (means)

the artificiality of taste, the cultural constrictions of insects as food, that eating insects can be adaptive

A cross-cultural perspective on eating insect larvae would reveal

values

A focus on __________ helps anthropologists understand intrinsically desirable principles held by a group of people.

all of the above

A social consequence of introducing coffee into the highlands of Papua New Guinea was that

interpretive

An ______________ approach to culture, such as that promoted by Clifford Geertz, Victor Turner, and Mary Douglas, emphasizes that culture is a shared system of meanings.

considering all ways of doing things

Anthropologists overcome ethnocentrism by

integrated

Because our values and beliefs include many elements of life such as clothes, food, and language means that culture is

false

Cultural appropriation involves relationships of power

all of the above; it explains all human action as the product of culture alone, it can justify atrocities, it denies the influence the factors like physical environment

Cultural determinism is unproductive for cultural analysis because

false

Cultural relativism is important because it helps anthropologists understand and defend all the things that people in other cultures do.

true

Culture consists of the collective processes that make the artificial seem natural.

it is important to understand Native American claims from their point of view though it doesn't necessarily mean we should accept them as the only way to view the issue

How would a critical relativist explain Native American criticisms of cultural appropriation?

this way of teaching organizes people to promote shared cultural goals

If a functionalist were to explain why the teacher lectures from the front of the classroom to students organized in neatly arranged chairs, she or he would emphasize that

everyday interaction

If you wanted to understand the norms of a society, you would most likely focus on

invented

Many anthropologists are wary about traditions because, while they may feel antiquated to some people, they are often _____________

interpretive theory

Michael Ames developed exhibits with native Canadian communities at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia because he believed in ______________

people learn them when they are young

Norms are stable because

false

People rarely hold conflicting values.

the interconnections between different domains of a society

The application of a holistic perspective to understand changes in everyday practices, such as eating breakfast cereals, reveals

the power of tradition

The controversy between Native Americans and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools using mascots illustrates

individual societies develop particular cultural traits and undergo a unique process of change

The defining feature of historical particularism is

a way of explaining how the world works

The idea that Ongee ancestors make tidal waves and earthquakes would be understood by an interpretive anthropologist as

post- structuralism

The idea that embraces dynamic cultural processes and the idea that the observer of cultural processes can never see culture completely objectively represent

through systematic connections of different parts

The main idea behind the holistic perspective is to study culture

changed her right as a foreign anthropologist, to study the Maya culture

When Kay Warren presented her anthropological research, a group of Maya intellectuals, activists, and political leaders: