Anthropology Final - Auburn University

Capitalism is an example of:

A Market System

The Potlatch is an example of:

A feast A leveling mechanism Redistribution

In "Baseball Magic", the author of the article played as a first baseman for what team?

Detroit Tigers

Ethnicity differs from race in that:

Ethnicity is a group that believes they share a common culture and/ or ancestry

In "Too Many Bananas", which of the following is NOT a lesson discussed in the article?

Every gift must have an immediate equivalent return

A couple degrees (celsius) increase in the earth's average yearly temperature will not have a major impact on food production

False

Corruption is only a serious problem in non-Western societies.

False

Globalization is exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before.

False

People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.

False

Social complexity is always associated with social inequality and hierarchy.

False

The Neolithic Revolution happened only in the region we call the Middle East.

False

Women in Arctic hunter-gatherer groups do not work as hard as men because there is no option to forage.

False

In "Too Many Bananas", what does Kolia suggest the author do with all the bananas when the author complains he has too many and they are spoiling?

Feed them to guests

Which English philosophers were concerned with the problem of disorder and argued that chaos is avoidable by creating strong government?

Hobbes and Locke

"Berdache Tradition": What is the major role of a berdache in many Native American societies?

Mediator

According to the lecture, the scientific consensus on human-driven (anthropogenic) climate change refers to:

Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree climate-warming is likely due to human activities

In the archaeological record, which of the following is NOT an indicator of a horticultural society?

Oldowan Tools

According to "RACE: Are We So Different", many of our current concepts of race originated during

The European Age of Exploration

Which of the following is an example of a revitalization movement?

The Ghost Dance

In "Baseball Magic", among who did Bronislaw Malinowski study fishing magic?

The Trobriand Islanders

According "The Berdache Tradition", a lack of tolerance for gender variation in some cultures is often reflected in their mythology and creation stories.

True

Although Russians do use money to buy things, they also rely on bartering when money is scarce.

True

In "Too Many Bananas", the author believed tobacco functioned like money.

True

In a caste system, social stratification is based on ascribed status.

True

The way in which most people incorporate the social and material aspects of their lives into biological experiences and outcomes is known as embodiment.

True

Women provide most of the diet in foraging societies.

True

"Who Needs Love": According to the article, all these sanction(s) keep Japanese couples from divorcing EXCEPT what?

Women fear that they will not be able to remarry as no man will want to marry a woman who is not a virgin

The concept that people have images, knowledge, and concepts of the physical landscape that affect how they will actually interact with it is called

a cultural landsape

The ghost dance among the Sioux in the 1890s was

a new religious movement responding to white encroachment on their lands, drawing on a mix of older and newer religious concepts, an attempt to recover self-respect

A common element among fundamentalists is

a pervasive sense of belonging to their group

In "Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead", Wade Davis found that zombification in Haiti was used as a sanction to maintain order. Who, does the article say, are the most likely victims of zombification?

a social pariahs (outcasts)

According to the lecture, animism, on the most basic level, is the belief in:

a soul

The term foodways describes a perspective that approaches food as

a tangible object that provides nutrition, a conduit for social relationships, symbolic

Rapid diffusion of cultural items either by choice of the receiving society or by force from a more dominant society:

acculturation

The Kung people of southern Africa are an example what kind of society?

acephalous (lacking a chief)

Which of the following theories is primarily concerned with understanding how individual people maintain political power in their daily activities and decision-making processes?

action theory

In an anthropological context, magic refers to:

acts performed to try to control and manipulate the supernatural

The legal process by which an individual or council with socially recognized authority intervenes in a dispute and unilaterally makes a decision is

adjudication

The development of what might be called true agriculture

an increased probability of shortages

The concept of animal husbandry refers to the practice of

breeding, care, and use of domestic animals by humans

Cross-cousin marriage involves:

children of the parents' opposite-sex siblings.

Financial globalization has allowed for

corporations to move factories from one country to another

Negative or unfair treatment because of his or her group membership or identity is

discrimination

By the end of the Paleolithic Era, humans had accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:

domestication of plants

Foraging societies are egalitarian. This means that:

everyone has equal access to basic resources, power and prestige.

If you live in a household with your mom and dad, your grandfather, as well as your aunt and two cousins, you live in what kind of family?

extended family

Which of the following are areas of social activity that globalization affects?

finances, communication, migration

What are people who belong to conservative religious movements that advocate a return to traditional principles called?

fundamentalists

Which is not a characteristic of civilization as defined in the lecture?

gender stratification

Anthropologist Ashraf Ghani's successes as a finance minister and presidential candidate in Afghanistan can be attributed to

his attentiveness to local social norms and priorities

Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?

history

According to the lecture, which of the following forms of technology is specifically related to the practice of agriculture?

horse drawn plow

A formalist anthropologist doing fieldwork in a supermarket would be most interested in

how shoppers decide which cat food to buy when they have fifteen varieties to choose from

Archaeologist Kent Flannery suggests that farming probably began:

in poor areas at the margin of rich ones

To say that human race is a folk taxonomy means that:

it is an example of a set of cultural categories based on physical differences

For U.S. and many other citizens in Western nations, getting married means finding the right person and tying the knot in a nice ceremony, something in other countries that is not common because

marriage is usually a matter of social and economic relationships between families

Rapid increases in the scale and amount of communication

mean that people in remote places can be in contact with people all over the world

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

People who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries are called

migrants

The significance of Ashley Montagu's writings about race was his observation that

only "uncivilized" people believe in myths

The subsistence strategy almost entirely dependent on animal husbandry is

pastoralism

Marriage takes different forms in different places. All the terms listed below are forms of marriage except

polyamory

Intensification, a process that increases yields, can include

prepping soil, plant modification, large labor force

The collection of goods in a community and the subsequent re-division of those goods among members of a society is called

redistribution

Which of the following groups of people were instrumental in the development of categorizing humans into distinct races?

scientists

The Inis Beag of Ireland are an example of a:

sexually restrictive society

Thomas McDade's fieldwork in Samoa revealed that Samoan youth

shared the same level of anxieties about rapid social and economic change despite not making substantive contributions to the household

One of the ways that archaeologists know there was social complexity in the Tarascan empire is through

spatial segregation of elite and commoner neighborhoods

Which of the following is an example of American totemism?

sports team mascots

"Who Needs Love": The article gives three reasons why Japanese marriages are so strong and durable. Which one of the following IS NOT a reason listed in the article?

strong religious beliefs

Easter eggs at Easter and Christmas trees at Christmas are items used in the celebration of Christian holidays. As they were borrowed from other religious practices and added to the religion over time, they are examples of _______________.

syncretism

A synonym for hybridization is

syncretism, friction, creolization

Changes in how the U.S. Census asks about race began in 2010 and more accurately reflects

the complexities interethnic blending

One of the reasons that the understanding of many early city-states is challenging is due to

the lack of written records

Consumer capitalism contributes to increasing ecological footprints in industrialized nations because

the production of goods is not sustainable and uses too many raw materials, it promotes the idea that people need more things to be happy, goods are shipping using fossil fuels

gender refers to:

the social/cultural categories of men and women

Does race have biological consequences?

yes, because of racism

Which of the following is NOT a type of reciprocity distinguished by Marshall Sahlins?

Positive

What is the relationship between power and authority?

Power can exist without authority

According to the "Prehistory of Warfare", what is the major reason for warfare?

Resource Stress