Midterm Exam Pt. 1

Globalization

According to anthropologist, _________, is the contemporary widening of scale of cross-cultural interactions owing to the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas

interpretive

An ___________ approach to culture, such as that promoted by Geertz, turner, and Douglas, emphasizes that culture is a shared system of meanings

Activities that are biologically based, such as eating and sleeping, are universally practiced in the same way for all humans

False

Colin Turnbull's and Father Schebesta's differing accounts of the BaMbuti pygmies are the results of

Father Schebesta only learning about the BaMbuti while they were in the village, whereas Turnbull lived amoung the BaMbuti in the forest

Parole

Ferdinand de Saussure made a distinction between the formal rules of languages (langue) and the way people speak it ( _________________________).

Malinowski's analysis of the Kula cycle is important because it helps explain how Trobriand men get social status

True

Formalists

_______ criticized substantivists for lack of attention to individual action and behavior and focused on the scientific investigate into individual economic behavior and rationality.

Secondary materials

__________, such as newspaper, are important in fieldwork because they can help provide a broader context for what the anthropologist hears and observe

The perception that the North American continent was an unpeople wilderness during the early period of European settlement when British settlers arrived is an example of

an anthropological landscape

In northern Sudan, cultural ideology holds that uncircumcised women

are not respectable and will have difficulty finding a marriage partner

the subfield of anthropology that studies human evolution, including human genetics and human nutrition, is called

biological anthropology

cultural anthropologist do research by

building trusting relationship with people over a long period of time

Hybridization is about

cultural mixing

Foodways are subject to large-scale industrial processes, trade relationships, and trends, suggesting that they are

dynamic

the process of learning culture from a young age is called

enculturation

Kenya's green belt movement is a good example of

environmental justice

animal call systems

express information about things that are not currently in their present environment

Most mammals use some form of call system to communicate with others of their species. Dogs and chimpanzees share an additional linguistic characteristic because they can communicate simple combinations of ideas about things they are not currently seeing.

false

in order to study culture one must travel to distant, far-off places.

false

The research that anthropologist Karen Tranbery Hansen has done on secondhand clothing in Zambia is interesting because it

highlights how people impose local meanings on objects

Food security

in the face of disparities in access to food, anthropologist are increasingly studying that issue of ____________

Ethnoscience

interest within environmental anthropology concerned with how non-westerns societies classify natural phenomena is called ________________, which was at its peak in the 1960's

a world system theory is important for all of the following reasons except

it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology

The exchange of brass rods for the purchase of cattle or the payment of a bride price is an example of he use of

limited-purpose money

Which of the following is not true about how food preferences relate to gender?

men always love meat, no matter which culture they are from

The human diet is

omnivorous

when language speakers use slang or metaphors, they are engaging in a concept suggested by French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure?

parole

Phonology

refers to the structure of speech sounds

the primary ethical responsibility of anthropological is to

the people or specie they study

informed consent

the practice of anthropologist explaining their research and being clear about the risks involve is called

the main idea behind the holistic perspective is to study culture

through systematic connections of different parts

All knowledge systems about nature, including science, are culturally based

true

Famines are often caused by not environmental factors but social factors like inequality.

true

Foragers tend work less to survive than agriculturalist or pastoralists

true

The recent popularity of local, organic foods in certain places is an illustration of globalization

true

a key concern in the 1850's that shaped the discipline of anthropology was the emergence of a new scientific theory called "evolution"

true

localization is the creation and assertion of highly particular, place-based identities and communities

true