anthro
In Nisa, which does NOT describe the !Kung healing force?
It is available to only to men.
in what way was Michel de Montaigne's essay "Of Cannibals" ahead of its time?
It used ethnography to critique Western society and values
Which of the following is true of applied anthropology?
It uses anthropology to develop solutions to social problems
Nisa's younger brother:
Kumsa
Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species (1859) was most heavily influenced by __________________.
Sir Charles Lyell's 1830 work, Principles of Geology.
A recent news item indicating that 80,000 reindeer have died due to starvation is most related to which of the following articles that we have read in Conformity and Conflict:
Susan Crate's "We are going Underwater"; she emphasizes the dynamic human-environment relationship and how local actions may have global effects.
According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," over half the Ph.D.s in anthropology each year find employment outside of academia.
TRUE
Which of the following does NOT describe a way the Tiv interpreted the story of Hamlet?
The Tiv approved of Hamlet's desire to kill his father's brother.
Which of the following is NOT true of the Israel Levin Senior Adult Center?
The center was built to attract residents to new housing
The film "Homeland" details the struggles of all of these except
The film "Homeland" details the struggles of all of these except
Which was NOT true of the Uranium mining in New Mexico?
The increasing prices have made all the local residents wealthy.
Please put the following four Postulates of Natural Selection in proper sequence.
There is a great overproduction of individuals, only a small percentage of which can survive and reproduce Individuals differ in their genetic endowment, and therefore differ, at least in principle, in their adaptedness to their common environment The causes of the difference in adaptedness are in part inheritable. The survival and reproduction of individuals is not random. The individuals who survive and go on to reproduce, or who reproduce the most, are those with the most favorable variations.
how did the Leahy brothers describe the bloody altercation with the locals to the authorities?
They did not report the incident
n First Contact, what finally convinced the indigenous group that the visitors were actually men?
They saw one defecate
According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," how do Peace Corps volunteers see themselves?
They see themselves as experts there to teach the less fortunate.
According to McCurdy in "Motorcycles, Membership, and Belonging," it is not uncommon for individuals in the United States to live in close proximity to neighbors they do not know and to guard their privacy, thus appearing lonely and preoccupied.
True
As described in "We are Going Underwater," the anthropological term "place-based people" refers to a group who depends directly on its immediate environment for both physical and spiritual sustenance.
True
According to McCurdy in "Motorcycles, Membership, and Belonging," the official magazine of the GWRRA that reaches over 70,000 members is called
Wing World
All of the following are true of !Kung marriage except:
a !Kung man would never marry a woman smarter than he is
According to Shandy and Moe in "Negotiating Work and Family in America," factors that pull women to resign from work and return to home full time include four of the following. Which one do they not mention?
a biological imperative
According the N!ai, curing illness is _______________ .
a religious act
the typical wedding celebration in the Fouta Djallon lasts for two or three days and includes great quantities of rice, gifts of money or cloth, and
a sum of money paid by the groom to the bride's parents.
During one season when Gmelch was playing baseball, he refrained from eating pancakes. This is an example of what anthropologists call
a taboo
Alverson has seen the Tswana's belief that being alone is
a time for secrets
In her article "The Military Name Game," Boxer argues that at the time she wrote the article, naming military operations involved using
a two-word verb-noun phrase that is positive but that is almost meaningless.
Essentially, anthropology as a discipline aims to study
all of human kind in all times and places
According to your lecture notes, the holistic approach in anthropology is unique because it:
all of the above
The film "Homeland" emphasizes
all of the above
the goals of anthropology include which of the following:
all of the above
In Nisa, Shostak explains that when it comes to death for the !Kung,
all of these are correct
One of the reasons Marjorie Shostak ultimately chose Nisa for her consultant was:
all of these are correct
Part of Marty's success was due to:
all of these are correct
All of the following were used to describe Herskovits in the film except:
always in agreement with black scholars
According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," Tswana see greeting others as
an essential act and time to exchange news.
According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," Tswana see greeting others as
an essential act and time to exchange news. Answers:
In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that some villages were not good candidates for the social research project due to
an ongoing problem of animal theft
In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that some villages were not good candidates for the social research project due to
an ongoing problem of animal theft.
Magic, according to Malinowski, occurs in response to
anxiety
Which one of the following is an observation that Sterk makes in "Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS" about "gatekeepers"? They
are important in gaining initial access to a scene.
The Chimanes Indians of Bolivia
are self-sufficient in many ways but still need money for goods they cannot produce themselves.
For the !Kung, the suffix n!a was used
as a term of respect.
According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," the first thing a new manager at UTC did after assuming a new position was to
ask warehouse workers, customer outlet staff, and other employees about problems and procedures.
According to Tannen in "Conversation Style: Talking on the Job," men often avoid asking directions because
asking puts them in a one-down position.
Elman Service's division of political organizations includes
band, tribe, chiefdom and state
In "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story of Amputees," Nordstrom illustrates that the self-run, informal banking system that the women of Muleque developed was
based on stability, trust, and allegiance.
According to Mueller in "The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal," one of the most common reasons a faru rab attaches itself to women or girls is because of their
beauty and style of dress
According to Mueller in "The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal," one of the most common reasons a faru rab attaches itself to women or girls is because of their
beauty and style of dresses
According to Ehrenreich and Hochschild in their article "Global Women in the New Economy," women who migrate for work in other countries are often
better educated than most women in their home countries.
the Nacirema are an exotic culture who reside
between Canada and Mexico
Nisa's father beat her for
breaking ostrich eggs
In "Reciprocity and the Power of Giving," Cronk, citing work by sociologist Warren Hagstrom, argues that __________ represent gifts in a system of reciprocal exchange.
citations in academic articles
According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," the term patrilineage refers to
closely related men who are all descended from a known ancestor.
According to Boxer in "The Military Name Game," the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created a __________ nicknamed __________ to generate names for military operations.
computer program, "NICKA"
According to Crate, the detailed and specific observations of people like the Viliui Sakha
contribute important information about the local effects of global climate change.
When Mikaela Rogozon-Soltar first met María Martínez in 2006, she had married a Jordanian man and
could not imagine a Spanish woman converting to Islam.
According to McCurdy in "Motorcycles, Membership, and Belonging," because the GWRRA is organized around couples and not individuals, the GWRRA has unintentionally
created an important role for women in the organization; women hold high-levelpositions and make up a majority of volunteers at rallies and fund-raisers.
Which of the following are the five disciplines of anthropology?
cultural, physical, archaeological, linguistic, applied
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor is known for his early definition of
culture.
One of the more successful gender identities in a coal mine is the tomboy, defined as a women who
departs from the conventional notions of femininity, does not mind getting dirty, and does not get worked up about things.
In "Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage," Dubisch notes that the carnival period preceding Lent meets the criteria of a ritual because it
designates a period of time when special activities are permitted.
both males and females
display
In the Fouta Djallon, migration offers young men the opportunity to earn
dèpart
Morton Fried divided political organizations into what three social types?
egalitarian, ranked, stratified
The process by which you learn culture is known as
enculturation
Spaniards who convert to Islam
endanger their social standing as recognized and respected members of Spanish society.
A key way for women in the mines to build workplace relationships with their male coworkers is to
engage in practical jokes.
According to lecture, which of the following is not a function of marriage?
ensure stable family structure through monogamy
in "Motorcycles, Membership, and Belonging," McCurdy argues that Honda company employees take on the role of __________ as they ride along with "Wingers" as participant observers, gaining insight on how to improve and redesign their motorcycles to meet riders' needs.
enthnographers
the way the !Kung treated Richard Lee's gift of a Christmas ox reveals how much they value
equality
Hans Staden made an important contribution to anthropology because he:
escaped from a Brazilian tribe, and wrote of his experience, doing "spontaneous ethnography"
This term can be used to describe the attitude of one's culture as being superior to others:
ethnocentrism
In "Motorcycles, Membership, and Belonging," McCurdy argues that Honda company employees take on the role of __________ as they ride along with "Wingers" as participant observers, gaining insight on how to improve and redesign their motorcycles to meet riders' needs.
ethnographers
In "Using Anthropology," McCurdy argues that _____ is an important skill that people who study anthropology can take into daily life.
ethnography
Social Darwinism was the concept that:
evolution could be used to describe the progression of societies from simple to complex
According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India
extended kinship systems are especially well suited to the organization of holding land in agrarian societies.
According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata often
fail to recognize malnutrition as the primary cause of illness among poor babies.
!Kung children are often expected to help their mothers gather; they actually contribute a great deal.
false
!Kung mothers are responsible for only 50 percent of child care. Fathers play an equal part in child rearing.
false
According to Bourgois in the article "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," second generation Puerto Rican residents living in Spanish Harlem began to sell crack cocaine because they could find no other work in New York City.
false
According to Nordstrom in "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story of Amputees," land mines successfully deter soldiers and protect sensitive sites.
false
According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," poor women in northeast Brazil would sacrifice in every way possible to keep their children alive.
false
According to research by Shandy and Moe, there is currently a surplus of well-educated professional men in relationship to women.
false
According to the film, only male chimpanzees use tools
false
As Guneratne and Bjork observe in "Village Walks," most guides that led tours to Pipariya were from lower-ranking ethnic groups and had little knowledge of the Tharu.
false
Dubisch notes that the Run for the Wall began as a way to promote respect for service in the U.S. military.
false
For the !Kung, hunting is a strictly male activity. Women are not allowed to bring protein into the village.
false
Goldstein believes that Tibetan polyandry is a response to high rates of female infanticide.
false
In "Baseball Magic," George Gmelch argues that magic is most often associated with fielding in American baseball.
false
In "Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS," Sterk found that it was essential to present yourself as an expert on the lives of informants before interviewing them and to use such information to design interviews.
false
In "Homeland," the Gwich'in of Alaska say they rely upon the oil in the land to survive.
false
In "Malawi Versus the World Bank," Patten claims that the goal of the World Bank and IMF is to lend poor countries money in order to build more efficient government agencies concerned with health and the control of HIV/AIDS.
false
In many societies that practice Intensive cultivation, the land-owning class is called the bourgeoisie.
false
In the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea in West Africa, an individual's marital status has no bearing on his or her standing within the community.
false
In the article "On the Pragmatics of an Androgynous Style of Speaking," Dr. White suggests that individuals that shift between masculine and feminine styles of speaking have more difficulties communicating in today's society.
false
In the clip Playing for Change, the man who was first recorded, in Santa Monica, was named Grandpa Elliot.
false
Spain does not have one predominant religion. Its citizens represent a wide variety of religious beliefs, including significant percentages of Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and Muslims.
false
The !Kung of the Kalahari were traditionally horticulturists.
false
The !Kung value their privacy both in the village and in the family dwelling.
false
The primatologist who studied chimpanzee hunting strategies under Jane Goodall was Harvard scholar Richard Wrangham.
false
Though the hardships have been many, both women in the film Home Economics agree that they are glad to have the opportunity to live in the Antelope Valley and would do it again if given the choice.
false
in the article "Law and Order" Spradley and McCurdy argue that a key to maintaining order in the tightly knit Zapotec community of Ralu'a is the strict application of law and punishment by village officials
false
According to Cronk in "Reciprocity and the Power of Giving," the Kwakiutl potlatch is a good example of a way to
fight or "flatten" social rivals.
In his article "Forest Development the Indian Way," Reed argues
for a sustainable development program that permits the collection and sale of forest products without destroying the original ecosystem.
To attract attention and draw people in to the photo imaging booth, Marty utilized
fuzzy red die
According to Shandy in "Nuer Refugees in America," Nuer boys go through a painful initiation ceremony called the
gaar ceremony.
According to Marcel Mauss, what are the three types of reciprocity?
general, balanced, and negative
The exchange of items common between closely related people (kin) or close friends:
generalized reciprocity
One of the concepts that the Tiv found it necessary to reinterpret when they were told the story of Hamlet was the English category for
ghost
According to Mueller "The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal," the traditional part of Dakar boasts a Senegalese culture of terenga, which makes it difficult to
go anywhere without being invited to share a meal, even with complete strangers.
According to Guneratne and Bjork in "Village Walks," Tharu villagers from Pipariya referred to tourists as
guests
Intensive agriculture
has significant negative environmental effects such as deforestation, water pollution, and reduction of ecological diversity.
In "The Case of an American Gypsy," the lawyer defending the young Gypsy man argued in court that
he had not intended to commit a crime when he used the social security number.
"Slash and Burn" is a land clearing technique utilized within which subsistence system?
horticulture
According to Reed in "Forest Development the Indian Way," Guaraní Indians subsist in the Amazon tropical forest largely by
horticulture and foraging.
According to Fish in "Mixed Blood," the striking contrast between the very tall Masai and the stature of the very short Pygmies, both of Africa, is representative of
human biological variety
According to Mueller "The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal," originally rab were invisible spirits that lived in harmony with the nomadic humans and made their homes in trees. The nature of the relationship changed when
humans needed land to grow more crops and began cutting down trees.
In which type of society would you expect women's status to be highest as compared to men?
hunters and gathers
According to Eames in "Navigating Nigerian Bureaucracies," bribery
initiates a personal relationship.
In "Malawi Versus the World Bank," Patten notes that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, along with approval of the U.S. Treasury, adopted a "Washington Consensus" designed to ___________________ in poor countries.
institute capitalism
Yehudi Cohen's (1974) "Adaptive Strategies" include all of these except:
institutional
According to Nordstrom in "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story of Amputees," when a woman receives the entire banking pot in her informal banking group, she often will use the money to
invest in a small piece of farmland to grow and harvest crops to sell.
In "Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage," Dubisch argues that participation in the Run for the Wall
is a personally transforming experience, partly designed to heal personal wounds.
In "The Case of an American Gypsy," Sutherland reports that for Gypsies, going to jail
is an especially cruel punishment because it separates them from their kin.
according to Eames, patrimonial practices similar to those found in Nigerian society do occur in the United States. The use of such practices
is considered an illegitimate way to conduct business.
In "How Sushi Went Global," Bestor observes that Tsukiji, Tokyo's wholesale seafood market,
is sent daily information about tuna conditions in such fishing grounds as Montauk, Cape Cod, and Cartagena by fishermen in return for information about prices.
According to Goldstein in "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," it is difficult for a male Tibetan to start his own farm because
it is difficult to terrace new land and keep animals simultaneously without help.
The study of communication through body movements such as stances, facial expressions, and gestures is known as
kinesics
In "Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS," when Sterk first tried to make contact with prostitutes on the street, they
largely ignored her
According to Shandy in "Nuer Refugees in America," the UN classifies refugees as people who have
left their home country because they fear persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a social group.
Ethnographers typically combine emic and etic strategies in their fieldwork. This means they are interested in applying both
local (insider) and scientist-oriented research approaches.
In "Global Women in the New Economy,"Ehrenreich and Hochschild report that one of the greatest problems faced by women who migrate from Third World countries for work in the First World is
long separation from their children and family members.
As reported by Spradley and McCurdy in "Law and Order," anthropologist Laura Nader feels that in Ralu'a, there is a strong value on_________, which underlies the community's substantive and procedural law
maintaining equilibrium
According to Reed's "Forest Development the Indian Way," sustainable development could look like
maintaining traditional practices of slash-and-burn combined with limited commercial exploitation.
According to Patten in "Malawi Versus the World Bank," the main crop of subsistence farmers in Malawi is
maize
According to Gmelch in "Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas," the first thing he did after his student, Hanna, told him she was being shunned by the Barbadian villagers where she was doing her research was to
meet with local elders to discover their views on the problem.
In "Conversation Style: Talking on the Job," Tannen argues that in the workplace
men often refrain from asking for directions while women often seek to create the appearance of equality in a conversation.
A magical practice in baseball that is culturally learned rather than personal is
mentioning a no-hitter while the game is in progress.
The fact that you have limited time to finish this quiz means that you are exemplifying
monochronic time (M-time)
The linguistic study of the structure of words is
morphology
Which of the following would be ego's cross cousin?
mother brothers son
Which of the following would be ego's cross cousin?
mother's brothers' son
In the Fouta Djallon , when a marriage ends through death or divorce, men and women
must actively seek to arrange a new marriage.
The view that all people see and understand the world in the same way is called
naive realism
In the introduction to Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, all of the following are true regarding the birth of Nisa's daughter except:
nisa has the assisstance of the midwife
The song featured in the clip Playing for Change: Peace Through Music was
none of these are correct
Shandy and Moe, in "Negotiating Work and Family in America," argue that a key to women's rank is
obtaining high-level occupational positions.
The custom of polyandry may end among Tibetans living in Nepal because
of government opposition and new economic opportunities.
Women who work in the coal mines in the Powder River Basin
operate all of the heavy equipment used to extract the coal.
In "N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman", what did the !Kung use to fill with water toward the beginning of the film?
ostrich eggs
According to Fish in "Mixed Blood," an increase in immigration has caused the most rapidly growing census category, which is now
other
In "Mixed Blood," Fish argues that human biological races do not exist because
people from anywhere on the planet can mate with others from anywhere else and produce fertile offspring.
An ascribed status is a status that
people have little or no choice about occupying.
According to Bourgois in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," the unionized jobs associated with manufacturing in New York
permitted some rebellious behavior.
The study of relations between European nations and the areas they colonized and once ruled is referred to as what?
postcolonial studies
In "Using Anthropology", the manager at UTC spent time learning the warehouse system as an insider views it, and discovered that inaccurate warehouse inventory numbers resulted from
pressures on employees to work fast, preventing them from accurately counting and recording what was shipped.
In "Village Walks," Guneratne and Bjork note that tour companies have characterized the Tharu as
primitive forest aboriginals.
According to Shandy and Moe in "Negotiating Work and Family in America," ethnographic research about the Inuit people of the Arctic indicates that the males
provide virtually all of the food needs by hunting seals, walruses, whales, and fish.
In order to be considered eligible for marriage, a Fouta Djallon girl must have
received the rite of excision.
The flow of goods toward a center and then back out is called
redistribution
all of the following are mentioned as tools used by chimpanzees, except
reed as a straw
In the "alternative ends" hypothesis (by Eric Wolf), a ___________ fund could be a pooled resource whereby a community of members could maintain the technology needed for production.
replacment
According to Goldstein in "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," Tibetan polyandry
requires a group of brothers to marry one woman.
A(n) _____________ is a style of communicating that is context-bound to a particular situation.
restricted code
What did the narrator say that chimpanzees like with their meat?
salad
What did the boy bring back from his flight to the city?
salt water
Ethnography is the_______________________ while ethnology is the ______________________________.
scientific description of a society's customs, their people and culture | study of people in various environments while looking for similarities, differences and relationships
According to Cronk in "Reciprocity and the Power of Giving," the Mount Hagen tribes of New Guinea use a gift giving system called "moka" to gain prestige and
shame rivals.
According to Lee, a !Kung hunter
shares what he kills with others and expects them to reciprocate in turn.
What did the Leahys use to pay the local workers?
shells
How did the Leahys try to demonstrate their power to the locals?
shot a pig
According to Patten in "Malawi Versus the World Bank," Malawians responded to the lower maize yields that occurred when fertilizer was no longer subsidized by
skipping meals
Planchones are
slabs of the mahogany tree cut down to six and one-half inches thick.
In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that the UDLP project to teach women how to raise and care for goats, and to incorporate milk into their children's food, was
so popular that it quickly had more participants than it could accommodate.
Which of the following does not occur as you move along the cultivating continuum?
societies become more egalitarian
Horace Miner tells us that though a good amount of their time is spent in economic pursuits, the Nacirema also
spend a considerable part of their day in rituals of beautification.
According to the film First Contact, the native inhabitants thought the white men were:
spirits
Which of the following best describes global population growth over the last one hundred years?
stabilization among wealthy nations and massive growth among poor nations
According to Spradley and McCurdy in "Law and Order," in the Zapotec village of Ralu'a two cases—a flirtation of a married man and a son who took coffee from his father without permission—illustrate
substantive law.
According to Richard Lee, in 1963 !Kung men
supplied between 20 and 40 percent of the calories consumed by members of a camp.
Spradley tells us that the idea that human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings they have for them is a tenet of
symbolic interactionism
In the film N!ai: the Story of a !Kung Woman, which of these was not a major consequence of white people moving into !Kung territory?
the !Kung lived in smaller groups farther away from others
According to Guneratne and Bjork in "Village Walks," the Tharu village of Pipariya is located adjacent to
the Chitwan national forest.
In "The Military Name Game," Boxer notes that the name for U.S. operations in Afghanistan, "Infinite Justice," was dropped because
the Council on American-Islamic Relations felt it implied a godly role for the U.S.
According to lecture, which of these is a classic example of all four fields of anthropology uniting to solve a mystery?
the New England vampire scare
The film "Homeland" details the struggles of all of these except
the Pueblo of the Four Corners region.
According to Crate's research, which of the following was blamed by most of the Sakha participants as a reason for the local climate changes?
the Viliui hydroelectric reservoir
in Nigeria, power and authority derive from
the ability to grant favors to loyal dependents
Which of the following factors encourages Third World women to migrate to the First World for work, according to Ehrenreich and Hochschild's article "Global Women in the New Economy"?
the amount of money they can make and send home
In "Nuer Refugees in America," Shandy defines transnationalism as
the cross-cutting ties that span the borders of nation-states.
According to Spradley, the term "ethnography" refers to
the discovery and description of the culture of a particular group.
During the class discussion on gender, Dr. White suggested that "there is nothing on the planet more fragile than_____".
the ego of a man
According to Bestor in "How Sushi Went Global,"
the first appearance of tuna in Japanese literature was in the eighth-century collection of imperial court poetry called Man'yoshu.
Barbara Myerhoff was originally compelled to study the aged Jewish community in Venice because
the group she originally wanted to study suggested she work with her "own kind."
Which of the following was studied by Sapir and Whorf?
the influence of language on thought
What are phonemes?
the minimal sound contrasts that distinguish meaning in a language
According to Lee, the most important staple in the diet of the !Kung when studied in 1963 was
the mongongo nut.
According to lecture, which of these is a classic example of all four fields of anthropology uniting to solve a mystery?
the new england vampire scare
According to McCurdy in "Family and Kinship in Village India," which is the most important structural tension associated with marriage in Bhil society?
the shifting of a woman's loyalty, labor, and reproductive potential from her family to her husband's family.
According to Bourgois in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," second-generation Puerto Rican men failed at entry-level service sector jobs because
the way they looked and walked often frightened middle-class Anglos on the job
What justification did Europeans offer for colonialism?
they claimed they were engaging in a civilizing mission (i.e. "white man's burden")
in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," Bourgois argues that the most important reason that second generation Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem find it unpleasant to work in New York City's professional offices is
they feel they are treated with disrespect.
According to Gmelch's article, "Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas," when his students do fieldwork in rural Barbadian communities
they ignore the fact that class distinctions may be present in such communities.
A central point that Dubisch makes about the men who participate in the Run for the Wall is that
they wish to repair the emotional wounds caused by their Vietnam war experiences and unpleasant homecomings.
Alverson has seen the Tswana's belief that being alone is
times for secrets
In anthropology, cultural relativism is not a moral position so much as a methodological one. It states that
to understand another culture, we must try to see how the people in that culture see things.
The surveys and interviews conducted by Crate in "We are Going Underwater" identified nine ways that the global climate changes have forced the Sakha to further adapt to their climate. Of the nine areas, which was found to be of most concern?
too much water on the land
According to "Women in the Mine", women represent from 6 to 8 percent of the workers in the coal mining industry overall.
true
According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," Peace Corps volunteers conceive of time as lineal while the Tswana associate it with events.
true
According to Bestor in "How Sushi Went Global," few North Americans ate bluefin tuna before the international market for sushi developed, preferring instead to fish for tuna as a sport.
true
According to Boxer in "The Military Name Game," despite every effort to make them benign, most recent attempts at naming military operations manage to offend someone.
true
According to Deborah Tannen in "Conversation Style: Talking on the Job," speaking styles are ritualized forms of verbal interaction that often differ between men and women.
true
According to Eames in "Navigating Nigerian Bureaucracies," patrimonial authority is one that is organized as an extension of a noble household, where officials act as household servants and are dependents of the ruler.
true
According to Ehrenreich and Hochschild in their selection, "Global Women in the New Economy," millions of women now migrate from poor countries to work in rich ones
true
According to Ehrenreich and Hochschild in their selection, "Global Women in the New Economy," millions of women now migrate from poor countries to work in rich ones.
true
According to Goldstein's "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," it is richer Tibetans living in Nepal who prefer polyandry.
true
According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," over half the Ph.D.s in anthropology each year find employment outside of academia.
true
According to Mueller in "The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal," the people of the Lébou district of Dakar believe that faru rab have the power to, among other things, prevent women from speaking, give them sexual dreams, and trigger infertility
true
According to Mueller in "The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal," the people of the Lébou district of Dakar believe that faru rab have the power to, among other things, prevent women from speaking, give them sexual dreams, and trigger infertility.
true
According to Reed's "Forest Development the Indian Way," the Guaraní and, in the past, millions of other Indians, exploited the Amazonian tropical forests without causing permanent harm to the ecosystem.
true
According to Shandy in "Nuer Refugees in America," the first anthropologist to conduct and publish extensive ethnography about the Nuer was Sir E. E. Evans- Pritchard.
true
According to Sutherland in "The Case of an American Gypsy," Gypsies frequently take one another's Social Security numbers in order to hide their identities.
true
According to Williamson, in "Illegal Logging and Frontier Conservation", the opportunity for higher than average pay and a patronage system keeps Bolivian men returning to the forest to undertake the risky job of illegally harvesting mahogany hardwood.
true
As described in "We are Going Underwater," the anthropological term "place-based people" refers to a group who depends directly on its immediate environment for both physical and spiritual sustenance.
true
In "Family and Kinship in Village India," McCurdy notes that when a groom ritually breaks into his future bride's house at the beginning of the final wedding ceremony, the act is one way to symbolize her movement from her natal family to his.
true
In "Negotiating Work and Family in America," Shandy and Moe illustrate how the primary source of one's public social identity is his or her occupation.
true
In "The Hunters: Scarce Resources in the Kalahari," Richard Lee claims that the consumption of edible plants, rather than meat, was the key to successful subsistence for the !Kung in 1963.
true
In Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, Melville Herskovits is described as the person who, more than any other American, demonstrates that African Americans are connected to Africans.
true
In addition to typical wet or dry seasons that most countries experience, Malawi has a "hungry season": the period between when the last of the stored harvest is consumed and the first of the next season's crops are harvested.
true
In the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea, it is ideal that newlyweds have children soon after they marry so that the husband may establish himself as the head of the household.
true
Many of the center's interviewed members, such as Mike, consider their longevity to be a curse.
true
Marjorie Shostak mentions that, upon reviewing her research materials, she was surprised at how often sexual topics had been discussed.
true
Nisa's mother, Chucko, threatened to bury her little brother alive when he was born.
true
The !Kung regularly understate their own hunting achievements to avoid looking arrogant.
true
The purpose of the article "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" is to remind a Western audience that their own culture is replete with seemingly "exotic" rituals
true
in his article "Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas," Gmelch argues that the U.S. students often work on the idea of personal autonomy, meaning that if they see what they believe is truth they can act without concern for what others think.
true
onobos use sex to diffuse tension instead of violence
true
In his article "Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas," Gmelch argues that the U.S. students often work on the idea of personal autonomy, meaning that if they see what they believe is truth they can act without concern for what others think.
truee
In "Conversation Style: Talking on the Job," Tannen argues that one negative consequence for women who ask questions is that they may seem
uninformed and less intellegent
according to Shandy and Moe, __________ is the only industrialized country that fails to provide paid leave for new mothers.
united states
As a result of the Spanish Inquisition and Franco's enforcement of Catholicism as a national religion, most Spaniards
view Catholicism as integral to their national identity.
According to Sutherland in "The Case of an American Gypsy," officials in the American justice system often
view Gypsies as a criminal society.
In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that in Malawi culture, goats have traditionally been seen as
walking bank accounts.
Nisa's mother, Chuko, was most upset that Gau's second wife:
was a surprise to Chuko that Gau forced upon her
The logging policies established by the Bolivian government for the area in and around the Chimanes forest
will probably eventually lead to the forest's destruction.
According to McCurdy in "Motorcycles, Membership, and Belonging," the official magazine of the GWRRA that reaches over 70,000 members is called
wing world
According to Nordstrom in "Illegal Economies and the Untold Story of Amputees," the United Nations worker equated __________ to the invisible center of gravity of the society.
women
In "Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS," Sterk found that in-depth interviews
worked best if held in private.
According to Lee, when a !Kung hunter kills a large animal, he is likely to tell others
"I am no good for hunting. I saw nothing at all...just a little tiny one."
In the film "Homeland", the annual fines collected for illegal industrial discharge into the Penobscot River totaled
$3,000 per year
In 1930, how many people lived in the Highlands of New Guinea?
1 million
According to Lee, in 1963 the !Kung had a caloric intake of about __________ per person per day.
2,100
In !Kung society as described by Shostak, how often did women gather on average in a week?
2-3 days
In "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," Scheper-Hughes reports that about __________ infants died in Alto do Cruzeiro, Brazil in 1965.
350
In "How Sushi Went Global," why does Bestor refer to bluefin tuna as "stateless fish?"
Bluefin tuna swim so fast and migrate so far, they may not remain in any nation's waters for long.
According to Spradley, the things people shape or make from natural resources are called
Cultural artifacts
Which is not true about culture?
Culture is passed on genetically to future generations.
in First Contact, what was the tin can lid used for?
Decorate a headdress
Which technique is generally defined as being an inductive approach to anthropology?
Emic Approach
In !Kung society, how does weaning children between the ages of 3 to 5 benefit overall reproductive fitness?
Extended breast feeding of offspring aids in inhibiting ovulation among women, which provides longer, more sustainable birth intervals.
