NNU CLTA 1550 Intro. to Cultural Anthropology Exam Questions
Koko and Washo were two primates who had learned
American Sign Language
In order to study culture one must travel to distant, far-off places. True or False?
False
When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same. True or False?
False
Animal call systems lack the ability (found in human languages) to produce an infinite number of word combinations. This ability in human language is called
Productivity
Most people are unaware of the structure of a language until someone speaking it makes a mistake: True or False?
True
Talking about sports as a battlefield is an example of
a metaphor
Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as
a pidgin language
Which project would be best suited to parachute ethnography?
a study of community response to a disaster
According to anthropologist Sherry Ortner's analysis, the American flag is an example of
a summarizing symbol
The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to
accumulate prestige
Research committed to making social change and improving the lives of marginalized people is
action anthropology
Development anthropologists often think of themselves as
advocates of poor and marginalized people
An anthropologist interested in a cultural insider's perspective on that insider's culture is seeking:
an emic perspective
In the Melanesian conception of time, the future is spatially located
behind the body
Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called
cognate words
Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?
colonial history
A word that best describes participant observation is
comfortable
Financial globalization has allowed for
corporations to move factories from one country to another
The process of promoting one culture over others, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as
cultural imperialism
Hybridization is about
cultural mixing
Push-pull factors
describe the factors that "push" people to migrate from their homes and that "pull" them to host countries
Animal call systems
do not combine calls to make new call meanings
The study of how people classify things in the world is called
ethnoscience
Which of the following is the defining methodology of the discipline of anthropology?
fieldwork
If you wanted to study patterns of kin relations in a community, which method would you use?
genealogical method
One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that
global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves
The people anthropologists gather data from are called:
informants
Cultural differences are often caused and amplified by
interconnections between societies
Which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships?
intersubjective
Which of the following is a feature of language?
it consists of sounds organized into words according to some sort of grammar
A world systems theory is important for all the following reasons except 1. it is useful for analyzing postcolonial conditions 2. it highlights resistance at the periphery 3. it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology 4. it explains how and why global capitalism has disrupted so many societies
it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology
Which method is an extended conversation that can shed light on how social institutions change over time?
life histories
The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of
localization
If you studied speech patterns such as those analyzed in Robin Lakoff's study of gendered speech, you might find that "talking like a lady"
marginalizes women's voices in work contexts
The study of how sounds combine together to make meaningful units is called
morphology
When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on
parole
is a key element of anthropological fieldwork because it is a systematic research strategy of "just hanging out."
participant observation
The individual sounds used in languages to symbolically produce meanings are called
phonemes
An important ethical concern for anthropologists is to
protect their informants
The purpose of field notes is to
provide written records of information that an anthropologist collects
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay found that if a language had only three color terms, they would always be black (dark), white (light), and
red
A stoplight is a visual example of which of the following?
sign
A key difference between anthropologists of development and development anthropologists is
the first are theoretical; the second are practical
An anthropologist might consider doing "anthropology at a distance" because
there is conflict of violence in the field site
A central feature of culture convergence theories is that
they explain the apparent decline of cultural diversity
James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists:
to expand state power
Some social networks are so spatially disbursed that migrants participate a community that spans multiple countries, referred to as a
transnational community
Using life history interviews, researchers are able to
understand how a person's age affects his or her role in the community
Globalization is the
widening scale of cross-cultural interactions caused by the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas within nations and across national boundaries
are people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries.
Migrants
Anthropologist Sherry Ortner distinguished three kinds of culturally powerful symbols that include all of the following except: 1. Narrative symbols 2. Key scenarios 3. Summarizing Symbols 4. Elaborating symbols
Narrative symbols