Anthropology Exam 3 Quiz Questions
which of the following is an element of violence?
-a highly visible assertion of power -the use of force to cause harm to someone or something -it is an efficient way to transform a social environment
the ghost dance among the Sioux in the 1890s was
-an attempt to recover self respect -a new religious movement responding to white encroachment on their lands -drawing on a mix of older and newer religious concepts
illness is an experience that is
-exacerbated by class differences -subjective -shaped by culture
anthropologists now understand that magic
-is at the basis of many rituals -usually involves working at a distance without direct physical contact -is often frightening or dangerous
people participate in globalization by
-migrating to distant cities for work -consuming coca-cola -watching TV
which of the following are areas of social activity that globalization affects?
-migration -communication -finances
a synonym of hybridization is
-syncretism -friction -creolization
an explanation given for medicalizing the nonmedical is
-to increase the prestige of physicians -the growth in profits for insurance and pharmaceutical companies -the desire of people to see social problems in scientific terms
Hijras interests anthropologists mainly because they are
a reflection of a gender/sex system that sees meaning in combining male and female
the most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to
accumulate prestige
a good example of the process of medicalization is found in the changing understanding of which of the following conditions as a disease?
alcoholism
anthropologist George Gmelch studied which sport where he found that players used a lot of magic
baseball
the theory that explains why cultural differences have not disappeared because cultural consciousness is increasingly bringing people together around cultural similarities is
clash of civilizations theory
violence between ethnic groups is not inevitable, but the idea that it is persists. Which of the following is not a reason for its persistence?
ethnic groups actually do fight with each other all the time
when social norms dictate that someone from a particular clan must marry outside of the clan, anthropologists say that the clan is
exogamous
T or F corruption is only a serious problem in non western societies
false
T or F globalization is exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before
false
T or F people in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion
false
one of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that
global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves
it is suggested in the text that the appearance of some mental illnesses are showing up in other countries where they did not previously exist, and this may be result of
globalization
health and illness
have much variation throughout different cultures and societies
what is the "subjectivity of illness"?
how people understand and experience their condition on a personal level
individuals who diverge from the male-female norm and exhibit sexual organs and functions somewhere between, including both male and female, are called
intersex
which of the following is not true about hybridization theories?
it explains why conflict is growing in the world
anthropologists have studied hundreds of different kinship systems around the world over the past century, but they can all be grouped into six different patterns, this has resulted in the development of
kinship terminologies
a voodoo doll is a good illustration of
magic that follows the law of similarity
the term politics can mean many things, but from the wider anthropological perspective, it is understood as talking about the relationships and processes of all of the following except
media
what subfield of anthropology tries to understand how social, cultural, biological and linguistic factors shape the health of human beings in different cultures?
medical anthropology
nearly all societies draw on more than one medical tradition simultaneously, a process which is called
medical pluralism
which of the following refers to the family into which is born and raised?
natal family
what is the family formed by a married couple and their children called?
nuclear family
for a big man in a non state society, what is the most powerful and valuable tools
persuasion
marriage takes different forms in different place, all the terms listed below are forms of marriage except
polyamory
which of the following is not a political act?
posting what you had for dinner on Facebook
anthropologists and other social scientists refer to ways in which social, economic and political processes categorize and transform a population into racial meanings as
racialization
what is a life cycle ritual that marks a person's or group of persons' transition from one social state to another?
rite of passage
stylized performances involving symbols that are associated with social, political, and religious activities are called
rituals
from an anthropological perspective, sex assignment surgery is useful because it
shows that sex is constructed upon cultural assumptions
a key feature of religious beliefs and behavior is that they are rooted in
social behavior and social action
while the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973, the same classification of homosexuality as "abnormal" label continued to allow the US government to reject immigrants. This ability to classify individuals according to a state of normal and abnormal is an example of the use
social power
violence is
socially constructed
which of the following is an example of American totemism?
sports team mascots
power that transcends individuals, operating in settings and orchestrating settings in which social and individual actions take place, is
structural power
the importance of a phenomenon like "revenge suicide" in Papua New Guinea is that it demonstrates
that the non-powerful have ways of exercising political power
the work of Paul Farmer in Haiti to combat AIDS revealed much more than the underlying problems inherent in the clinical pathology and transmission of the disease, including
the connection between health and socioeconomic and political conditions there
Geertz's approach to religion is a style of analysis that looks at the underlying symbolic and cultural interconnections within a society; this is often referred to as
the interpretive approach
Hawaiians and other Polynesian Islanders traditionally believed that mana, sacred or supernatural power, existed within certain objects, at sacred spaces, and in persons, including all of the following except
the sun
T or F localization is the flip side of globalization
true
weddings and marriages are usually less about the couple than about relationships with the couple's social network, including friends and family
true
women who practice polyandry tend to marry
two or more brothers
