Anthro FInal
The traditions and customs transmitted through learning is
Culture
Which of these is NOT a stage of rites of passage?
Integration
Which term refers to the intersection of race, class, ethnicity, age, gender, and physical ability?
Intersectionality
Which of these is not a means of production
Language
In Secret Intersex, this individual undergoes a vaginoplasty in order to "...feel whole."
Louise
This is the ability of individuals or groups to impose their will upon others and make them do things even against their own wants or wishes
Power
Please match the following terms to their definition __1__ The gift around marriage by the husband's kin to the bride's kin __4__ Child of a father's brother or mother's sister __2__ Transfer of wealth when children become a member of a husband's descent group __3__ Bride's kin presents a gift to the husband's family
1. Bridewealth 2. Progeny Price 3. Dowry 4. Parallel Cousin
In the UK, at the time of the documentary Secret Intersex, how many babies are born a year who are intersex?
2,000
In the documentary about colonization and gender, they discusses these cultures
All of the above
This is a form of uncentralized political system
Band
Regarding linguistic evolution...
Biological components include brain structure and the vocal apparatus
According to the gender and colonization documentary, this person in Aboriginal culture is a biological female who has a masculine spirit.
Brotherboy
Changing one's speech patterns according to different social situations is known as:
code switching
Which description BEST defines gender?
cultural roles associated with the biological categories of male and female
Different versions of a language spoken in different regions, or by people belonging to different groups (e.g. social classes, occupations, etc.) are called:
dialects
Consider the following sentence: "In 5 billion years the hydrogen in the sun's core will run out. The sun will become a red giant and its radius will expand so much that it will envelop the earth." Making sense of this sentence would be impossible without which characteristic of language?
displacement
The informal way we absorb culture is called...
enculturation
If someone is agnostic, they believe in many gods
false
If a society is male-dominated and relies heavily on agriculture, which deity/deities will they most likely worship?
god/gods
The study of movements, facial expressions, gestures, body language in communication is known as
kinesics
Margaret took a set of wives in order to
produce children
This is an unmarked physical field on which imagination or action can occur
space
Sexual dimorphism is defined as which of the following?
the exhibition of different characteristics by males and females of the same species
A morpheme is
the smallest unit of language that carries or contains meaning on its own
A phoneme is
the smallest unit of sound that makes a difference in a particular language
Paralanguage refers to
the various non-linguistic sounds, variations in tone, pitch, volume, etc. that accompany linguistic communication and are important for conveying meaning
In New Guinea, a Big Man does not have to share his wealth in any way.
False
Religion and Spirituality are the same thing
False
States are the oldest form of political organization
False
There is a direct english translation for the marriage tradition the Mosou participate in.
False
There is only one kind of intersex condition and it results in female characteristics.
False
We know for a fact that only Homo sapiens are capable of speech, and none of our hominin ancestors were able to talk.
False
Westernization is always a good thing
False
In the 1970s this person studied cockfighting in Bali through the lens of symbolism.
Geertz
These are culturally assigned economic and social tasks
Gender roles
This is a type of power that involves military force
Hard
This is the first type of farming that developed
Horticulture
Cultural evolution is progress
False
Culture is instinctive
False
Culture is unique to humans
False
Gender is the network of relatives within which individuals possess certain rights and obligations.
False
Which of these is not a characteristic of culture?
Exclusionary
This is a type of cultural control where the laws and sanctions control behavior
Externalized
Colonization has helped communities preserve their way of life
False
This is when you choose to highlight, encourage, and respect different beliefs within a government or company.
Multiculturalism
Which of these is not used in modern ethnography
Solo Work
Which of the following is NOT true according to anthropological linguistics?
Some human languages are richer and more expressive than others
This is the physical and psychological harm caused by exploitative and unjust social, political, and economic systems
Structural violence
Which of these is one of the five subprocesses of modernization?
Telecommunication
In the documentary, what creature did they use as an oracle as a "tester" oracle before using the chickens?
Termites
This is a good example of unification
The European Union
A myth is a well-known story that explains primary principles, beliefs, and values.
True
A potential issue with globalization is the chance of complete homogenization
True
Above all, we must keep our informants and ourselves safe
True
British and French colonialism has contributed to many inequalities we see today
True
Chiromancy is palm reading
True
Emic perspectives are the "insider perspective"
True
French colonialism was driven by church, state, and military interests
True
Globalization anthropologists look at how people react to the changes accompanied by globalization
True
In the marriage proposal of the female husband, she brings the male husband who will provide the new wife with children.
True
Mosou courting rituals include visiting secretly overnight
True
Pastoralism was historically confined to the "Old World" (with one or two exceptions)
True
Practice Theory recognizes individual agency and diversity in the practice of culture
True
The three types of reciprocity are: Balanced, Negative, and Generalized
True
This is the collective body of ideas that members of a culture generally share concerning the ultimate shape and substance of reality
Worldview
This is a term used for when males are the center of a study
androcentrism