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ANTH 1010: EXAM 1
Salote had been able to build a modern new house because her husband sent $1000 a month to her. |
True
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What percentage of Tongan households received money from remittances according to a 1984 study? |
90%
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What are tangible signs of a remittance economy? |
all of the above
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Cathy Small was surprised how much Tonga had changed from when she had been there before.
|
true
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Mobility had adjusted both upward and downward. |
true
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What is one of the things the two young women from the US were planning on doing while in Tonga? |
Join in the dances that would be held in the village during celebrations.
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All the households of Tonga had changed evenly across the board. |
false
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"It would have been a very short celebration indeed if it hadn't been for the overseas Tongans", said Malia. ' |
true
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In Tongan events, where do nobility and royalty go? |
The sat in a sheltered place behind the matapule, the talking chiefs.
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In the celebration for the village church overseas Tongans played an insignificant role. |
true
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Which of the following is a common representation of the relationship between Tongans and their foreign resident family and friends? |
different roads, same community
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Overseas money is a luxury, more than a necessity, in Tonga. |
false
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Women say that rarely do men go overseas and find another woman there. |
false
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Namus is another name for |
Turkish Honor
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In _____ kinship terminology, the term "brother" is given to ego's brother, father's brother's son, and mother's sister's song; a different term is used for the sons of father's sister and mother's brother. "Mother" refers to ego's mother and mother's sister; "father" refers to ego's father and father's brother. Separate terms are used for mother's brother and father's sister. |
Iroquis
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Alternative means of reproduction are forms of new reproductive technologies. |
true
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The Eskimo kinship system produces a designation of parallel and cross cousins. |
false
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The Han in China have a patrilineal descent system that is very much a "man's world." |
true
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When kinship membership is traced either through males or through females but not both, it is called |
unilineal.
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Lineages use endogamy as a way of creating new social alliances. |
false
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All of the following are types of descent except: |
institution.
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All of the following statements regarding a lineage are correct except: |
it always involves a totem
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A young man of Jewish affiliation moves to New York City to find a job. Seeing no reason to "go it alone," he calls everyone he knows from both his mother's and father's side of the family, and attends various meetings to which he is invited. He is invited to multiple events and gatherings by virtue of his being related to various ancestors on both parents' side. These groups support him when he runs out of money and help him find an apartment and a job. We can say that he is a member of either a bilateral descent group or which of the following? |
Ambilineal
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In ambilineal descent, the individual may be affiliated with either the mother's or father's lines |
true
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A clan is similar to a lineage except: |
clan members are unable to trace exact genealogical links to their common ancestor.
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Clans, because they may have members living in many different villages, depend on _____ to provide symbolic identification and promote solidarity. |
totems
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Among the Han, brothers and their sons were part of the same household and paternal uncles were like second fathers. What type of descent is this? |
Patrilineal
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Matrilineal descent groups are associated with farming societies in which _____ performs most of the labor in the house and gardens. |
women
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Emma says it is easier for her to speak in Tongan when she goes to the supermarket and meets Luci. |
false
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The oldest child is understood as the pathfinder in Tonga and has a responsibility for doing well. |
true
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Which of the following was the basis for Greg's and Emma's social life? |
shared friends
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When Palu found her sister Finau wearing her clothes what was she told? |
That she should let her sister wear her clothes since she was the oldest.
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Palu did not have a strong identification with the United States and its ways. |
false
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Which of the following was a "cultural" problem between Emma and Greg? |
That men and women could be friends.
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What was the main thing Emma stated when asked what she had learned in America? |
To be a strong, positive person who speaks for herself.
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When Palu found her sister Finau wearing her clothes what was she told? |
That she should let her sister wear her clothes since she was the oldest.
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Families can be consanguine or conjugal. The conjugal family has many forms. One type of conjugal family is the _____, consisting of the husband, wife, and dependent children. |
nuclear family
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Your mother's sister's child is your parallel cousin. |
True
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There are no cultures that prescribe male-to-male sexual acts, for any reason. |
False
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In Western societies between A.D. 1000 and 1800, divorce was next to impossible, but few marriages lasted more than about 10 or 20 years, owing to |
high death rates
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An important source of contacts in trying to arrange an Indian marriage is/are |
social clubs
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The Nayar family consists only of affinal relatives. |
false
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All of the following are associated with polygyny except: |
shows the lower status of men than women in these societies.
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The people to whom you are related by marriage are considered what type of kinship? |
Affinal
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Since the early 1970s, about how many foreign children have been adopted into U.S. families? |
500,000
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Among Christians in the 17th and 18th centuries in New England, adultery was considered |
a serious crime
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The most prevalent form of marriage worldwide is polygamy. |
false
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The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss says that the incest taboo is universal because |
the stability of the family
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A family established through marriage is called what type of family? |
conjugal
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All societies have cultural rules to regulate sexual relations. |
true
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Migration from Tonga solved which of the following pressing problems. |
a growing scarcity in land and jobs.
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What happened in the US in the 60s that militated in favor of increased Tongan immigration? |
NOT: None of the Above
GUESS:ALL OF THE ABOVE)
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Which of the following was instrumental in promoting immigration from Tonga? |
The Mormon Church
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What do Tongans do in return for the help given them by their American family? |
All of the Above
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What percentage of Tongans worked at managerial, professional, or sales jobs compared with the population of San Mateo. |
8.5% versus >75%
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Which of the following is true of Eseta and Manu? |
They saved every penny they could and brought over relatives to get ahead.
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What is chain migration? |
NOT: Migrating little by little as you can ford to put another link together.
GUESS: Migrating along paths set up by your relatives.
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Where are Tongans concentrated in the United States? |
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hawai'i and Salt Lake City.
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How did Manu and Eseta's household compared with American households? |
It contained more people at more varied life stages.
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How many people on average lived in a Tongan American household |
NOT: 7-8
GUESS: 9 or more???
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Once in California, what did Seini and her husband do? |
They began bringing over family.
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Tongans, like Atu, would prepare food on Sundays which the family would consume by itself. |
False
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Where do people apply in Tonga for a visa to the US? |
Fiji
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Malia said that in America people's bodies are prisoners to work and to time
|
True
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How long did it take for Atu and Malia's visa to come through once they had applied for it? |
Nine Years
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What do we call the division of labor pattern in which men and women carry out their work separately, while maintaining a socially and economically complementary balance? |
Dual- Sex Configuration
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In most societies, the basic unit of the cooperation is the |
Household
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Which of the following items is exchanged in the Trobriands during death rituals? |
Banana-Leaf Bundles
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Every fall, a group of about 600 migrants travels to Maine to work on the apple harvest. They are contacted by a labor recruiter in their home country and given temporary foreign farm work visas. Often, they must change aspects of their physical appearance to be seen as more "employable." Where are they from? |
Jamaica
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Among food foragers, tools may be given or loaned to others in exchange for the products gained from their use. |
True
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Raw materials, labor, and technology are the productive resources used by all societies. |
True
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When Spanish invaded Mexico and Guatemala, they adopted the local practice of using money. What item represented money in this area? |
Cacao
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Among the Ju/'hoansi, |
elderly people are a valuable source of knowledge and wisdom about hunting and gathering and are consulted regularly.
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The use of money for exchange has been traced back as far as 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia |
True
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Tools tend to be fewer and simpler among |
mobile food foragers and pastoralists.
|
A customary practice such as hosting a birthday party is an example of negative reciprocity. |
false
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That the people one works with live scattered over different countries and among different kinds of people with different cultures has no implication for the standard notion of culture as an integrated and bounded whole. |
False
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Overseas migration was just beginning when Small arrived in Tonga. |
False
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Which of the following is True of Tonga? |
It is the only remaining independent kingdom in the Pacific
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Besides the movement of people, what else is Tonga's story of migration about? |
NOT: All of the above.
GUESS: None of the above???
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In many countries people are concerned about what increased migration will do to a sense of national identity and patriotism. |
True
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Ethnography is being changed by the same forces anthropologists study. |
True
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What do American's expect about their immigrants according to Small? |
a & b
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What does Small say about standard ethnographies? |
stay in one place at one time
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Small predicted that by the first years of the twentieth century there would be more people living in Tonga than Tongans abroad. |
false
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Tongans live today in an economy that is largely remote from the world's money dominated economic system. |
false
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Migration is peripheral to the serious matters of life in Tonga. |
false
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Unlike classical ethnographies, Small maintains a tone of scientific distance in her writing and work. |
false
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How is Tonga not representative of the experience of the former colonies that now send migrants? |
A & C
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How is Tonga not representative of the experience of the former colonies that now send migrants? |
More and more people discover their lives, their families, and their systems of loyalty and support cut across national borders.
|
Which of the following is true of the new migrants according to Small? |
All of the above
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A society in which human labor, hand tools, and animal power are largely replaced by machines, with an economy primarily based in big factories, is called a(n) |
industrial society
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The Comanche and the Cheyenne were quite different culturally until they moved out onto the Great Plains and made use of the horse to hunt the buffalo and raid settled peoples. They then became more similar in cultural adaptations, a process called |
convergent society
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An economy dominated by machines and based on big factories is an industrial society. |
True
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People started shifting to food-producing ways of life about 10,000 years ago. |
True
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The cultivation of crops using hand tools such as digging sticks or hoes is a type of farming called |
Horticulture
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Mass food production is a characteristic of which type of food production? |
Industrial
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The Bakhtiari are a |
pastoral group who raise goats and sheep.
|
All of the following statements except one correctly describe food-foraging societies. Which is it? |
They are primitive because they did not progress to a higher level.
|
Pastoralists are like food foragers in that |
both now live in areas that are marginal, where land is not suitable for farming.
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What is a primary labor activity of Bakhtiari women and girls? |
spinning wool into yarn
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Among foragers, most groups have home ranges within which all resources are open to any members of the group. |
True
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All broad-chested individuals are adapted to the low oxygen levels of high altitude. |
False
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What was the primary goal of the Cusichaca Trust research and applied work in the Patacancha Valley of Peru? |
Revival of ancient farming techniques
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The development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by people whose ancestral cultures were already rather alike is called |
parallel evolution.
|
In anthropology, geographic regions where a number of societies have similar ways of life are known as |
cultural areas
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All of the following statements about the naming ceremony are true except: |
all cultures have some ceremony to mark the naming of a child.
|
Both Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict were pioneers in the culture and personality movement in anthropology. |
True
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Dependence training is most often found associated with which type of society? |
Foraging and subsistence societies
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Which orientation includes standards that indicate what ranges of behavior are acceptable for males and females in a particular society? |
Normative orientation
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In Western countries, a psychological disorder known as _____ occurs most frequently among young women in which a preoccupation with thinness produces a refusal to eat. This is an example of a culture-bound syndrome |
anorexia nervosa
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In today's Native American societies, the preferred term to describe an individual who falls between the categories of "man" and "woman" is known as |
two-spirit
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Biomedicine is the predominant medical system found in |
Europe and the United States.
|
Same-sex sexual acts are punished by the death penalty in all of the following countries except: |
South Africa.
|
The significance of the concept of tabula rasa is that it emphasizes the importance of culture rather than biological inheritance in determining an individual's characteristics. |
True
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John Locke's theory of tabula rasa was not sufficient because it did not |
take genetic contributions into account.
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The _____ do not consider an infant truly "human" until they have given it a name. |
Aymara Indians
|
Sadhu is a |
Hindu ascetic monk.
|
All of the following are associated with eunuchs except: |
castration was always carried out as a public ritual in societies where it had meaning.
|
The core value to which European Americans subscribe is |
rugged individualism.
|
Childrearing practices that encourage compliance in performing tasks and dependence upon the group rather than on the individual is called |
dependence training.
|
Biomedicine is a traditional form of healing that is not widely accepted in the U.S. |
False
|
Food-foraging societies are egalitarian because |
their mobility and type of technology limits the accumulation of surplus possessions.
|
Which tool would you not expect to find among horticulturalists? |
Plow
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The Kula ring is a form of _____ that reinforces trade relations among a group of seafaring Melanesians inhabiting a ring of islands off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea. |
balanced reciprocity
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When the economy is based on _____ and when the man does most of the productive work, the bride's people may give a dowry that protects the woman against desertion. Dowry is also a statement of her economic status. |
agriculture
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The Hawaiian form of kinship is the least complex. |
True
|
New reproductive technologies are |
changing the traditional understandings of kinship.
|
Tongans live today in an economy that is largely remote from the world's money dominated economic system. |
False
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Countries like Tonga wonder whether immigrants and their children will maintain loyalty to them and continue to send remittances and continue to bolster the home economy. |
True
|
Tongans who migrated earlier had eat most to show materially because times became more difficult. |
True
|
Palangi Americans regularly visit in the homes of Tongans in California. |
False
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Malia said that in America people's bodies are prisoners to work and to time. |
False
|
Most Tongan houses had changed in what way? |
Few were thatched
|
What it the immediate problem for most young men? |
NOT: Jobs
|
By 1994 the overseas population of Tongans had become what percentage of the Tongan population? |
70%
|
People in Sonqo approach the Great Places of the Tirakuna without out much intensity of emotion since they live around them all the time. |
False
|
Instead of "informants", Allen prefers to call the people she depended on to tell her about their way of life what? |
Friends
|
Earth beings are classified according to rigid identification with gender. |
False
|
What provides a tangible manifestation of sami's flow? |
Rivers and Streams
|
The people who lived in Sonqo before the sun came up are still alive but as dried bones. |
True
|
The earth is benign. |
True
|
God and the sun are conceptualized in similar ways. |
True
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What connects the communities of the Tirakuna and that of the Runakuna together. |
NOT: They share the landscape
|
When the coca leaves burn, what is it that passes to the Earth? |
NOT: All of the above
|
What are the most tangible manifestations of sami? |
Water and light
|
Which of the following is a key part of the scaffolding on which Runakuna hang their webs of significance? |
That the material world is experienced as animate, powerful, and responsive.
|
Tirakuna orient the people of Sonqo in ways that are both emotional and cognitive. |
True
|
Tirakuna orient the people of Sonqo in ways that are both emotional and cognitive. |
B & C
Focused on her friends interests.
The provided refuge.
|
People regularly make offerings of samincha (sami laden goods) to God. |
False
|
Andean ritual works at holding, controlling and directing the flow of sami. |
True
|
To carry out a cargo is what? |
The responsibility of women and men
|
Each individual is a microcosm in which male and female qualities are combined. |
True
|
All handicrafts are warmi ruway, women's tasks, even those performed by men. |
True
|
Why didn't Don Luís reject Catherine Allen and Rick's petition to stay in Sonqo with his family when they first went to do field work? |
NOT: Because he like Catherine's long hair and bright eyes and the hard work Rick could do.
|
To weave, women ask the blessing of saints and mount Sinakara. |
True
|
Which of the following describe(s) the household in Sonqo? |
A & B
Woman-man
Fusion of complimentary spheres.
|
Which of the following slogans encompasses the differences between men and women? |
NOT: All of the above
|
The sexes are general tender with each other, especially in a romantic relationship. |
False
|
Which of the following is a ritual kinship, an expanding and consolidation of ties? |
Compadrazgo
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Which of the following is impressed on children from an early age in Sonqo? |
That women and men should pursue their tasks independently of each other
|
Where is the essence of social relations to be found in Sonqo? |
In the give and take of reciprocal relationships and mutual aid.
|
Which of the following marks the adoptoion of Spanish Catholic rituals and ways to Andean culture and customs? |
NOT: The practice of mass in the church
|
In Sonqo men are understood to have female qualities and viceversa. |
True
|
What kind of loom do men weave on in contrast with the horizontal and backstrap looms of women? |
An upright loom, since men should be upright.
|
From skeletal remains, the forensic anthropologist cannot establish which of following? |
Marital Status
|
How does the perception of organ transplantation differ between the U.S. and Japan? |
It is rarely performed in Japan because they do not believe in a mind-body split.
|
What does it mean to take a "holistic perspective"? |
To seek interconnections and relatedness between various parts of human culture and biology
|
The current Code of Ethics for anthropology is devised and implemented by the American Association of Practicing Anthropologists. |
False
|
Which of the following are broad research interests of physical anthropologists? |
Biological variation in human populations and evolution of human characteristics
|
Anthropology is considered to be an empirical social science. |
True
|
Anthropology is |
the study of humankind everywhere, throughout time.
|
Which of the following research projects would not belong to the province of linguistic anthropology? |
Reconstructing the evolution of the big toe to find out at what time humans began to walk upright
|
Studies of human adaptation focus on the capacity of humans to adapt, or adjust to their material environment, biologically and culturally. |
True
|
Physical anthropologists are only concerned with the past evolutionary development of the human animal and the biological variations with the species that occurred in the past. |
False
|
What is the primary purpose of practicing applied anthropology? |
It allows the use of anthropological knowledge to solve practical problems.
|
A position that is a closely examined and critically checked explanation of observed reality is called a(n) |
theory
|
Material and skeletal remains help archaeologists reconstruct the cultural context of human life in the past. |
Material and skeletal remains help archaeologists reconstruct the cultural context of human life in the past. |
The branch of anthropology that studies human languages is called |
linguistic anthropology.
|
Anthropological fieldwork is characteristic of all of the anthropological subdisciplines. |
True
|
Islanders are impressed and happy with the generosity they see in their overseas relatives. |
False
|
Tongans only receive remittances form overseas. Remittances within the Islands are at an all time low. |
False
|
Because the need for cash remains relatively constant in Tonga, the same levels of remittances are now adequate to meet need, at least for the foreseeable future. |
False
|
The change in Tongan political form, the shift in obligations and feelings between nobles and commoners respond to very different causes and issues. |
False
|
Traditional forms are in flux because the relationships that underlie them are shifting beneath the surface. |
True
|
Patterns of remittances to Tonga are stable |
False
|
Overseas Tongans have become what? |
A&B
More Poly, More connected to the underclass
|
Reducing the field of obligations is a major aspect of conversation and gossip as well as a major social concern. |
True
|
Overseas relatives often thing Tongans are misspending the money sent them. |
True
|
Which of the following is the music of the transnational space? |
Rap (Hip Hop)
|
What is the methodological value of stories for Small? |
They show us the way the incidents and narratives of our lives intersect with the larger forces of our world.
|
What is the institution that has grown to meet the difference between Villagers need for and supply of money? |
Finance Companies
|
People are narrowing their networks of reciprocity. |
True
|
Small argues the forms of social life seem solid until what happens? |
Stories revel their instability, the impermanent ground on which they rest.
|
For Small, what reveals the epic drama of globalization? |
The tiny incidents and interactions that compose our lives.
|
Xenophobia tends to occur during very specific situations. Which of the following is least likely to cause xenophobia? |
Prosperity
|
Experts predict that global warming will result in higher levels of structural violence. |
True
|
Coercive power that is backed up by economic and military force is called |
Hard Power
|
Multiculturalism involves all of the following except: |
it exists without ethnocentrism or discrimination.
|
Global warming is thought to be primarily caused by |
burning fossil fuels
|
What is xenophobia? |
Fear of anything strange or foreign
|
As the world's dominant super power, the U.S. is responsible for nearly half of the world's military arms spending. |
True
|
Pluralistic societies have a tendency to fragment along the lines of which type of differences? |
Linguistic
|
The military is an example of soft power when it is not activated in warfare. |
False
|
The one thing that all pluralistic states, past and present, irrespective of other differences among them, share is a tendency |
To fragment
|
Almost half (44%) of all people in the world get by on less than $2.00 per day. |
True
|
Almost 7% of the world's population lives outside its country of birth. |
False
|
Applied anthropologist Paul Farmer is associated with all of the following except: |
he works also in Jamaica to treat refugees from war-torn areas of Central America.
|
In which urban area do we currently find some of the largest numbers of urban poor? |
Lagos, Nigeria
|
Which of the following organizations is an example of "soft power"? |
Cable News Network
|
Societies that promote a great deal of upward and downward mobility are called open class societies. |
True
|
All of the following are true of Indian harijan except: |
They are quickly disappearing
|
South Africa during apartheid years was a pluralistic country with social stratification. |
True
|
A set of families that enjoy equal or nearly equal prestige according to a system of evaluation is called a(n) |
Class
|
The Dalits women's movements in India illustrates that even long-established practices can be |
Challenged
|
Today, some 30% of the American population is classified as living in poverty. |
False
|
In many cultures, the social position of an individual in a specific life stage is commonly marked by each of the following except: |
weight
|
The Dalits are also known as the Sudras in the caste system. |
False
|
All of the following are common reasons why women have traditionally been less involved in common-interest association than men except: |
low level of interest in social activities.
|
The North American life stages of toddlerhood, teenager, adult, and senior citizen are also known as |
age grades.
|
What U.S. organization exists so that Ghanaians can maintain their cultural identification with their local chiefs in Africa? |
Asanteman Association of the USA
|
Among the _____ of the Amazon, men not only work apart from women, but eat and sleep separately as well. |
Mundurucu
|
Social impact assessments are required of any projects that use bank loans or any type of borrowed monies. |
False
|
Age sets are distinct from simple age grades. |
True
|
Recently, in North America, there has been a dramatic increase in common-interest associations. |
False
|
The person who comes overseas from Tonga tends to be the most ruggedly individualistic. |
False
|
There was limited mobility available in the jobs Tongans could get in the US and opportunity worsened with the economic climate of the 90s. |
True
|
What is the new form of the family Small see as developing because of migration. |
The transnational family
|
What is the new form of the family Small see as developing because of migration. |
They make much higher wages.
|
Migrants from Tonga to the US were much more likely to be helping people back home than pursuing an American Dream of personal success. |
True
|
Tongan migration is an individual choice and individual strategy. |
False
|
According to Small, it is only in returning home to Tonga that the real promise of migration can be fulfilled. |
True
|
The dialogue in anthropology between practice and theory does not allow the personal and the practical to become theoretical. |
False
|
Today, the once-colonized often live among the colonizers. |
True
|
How did Small's informants respond when offered the anonymity (confidentiality) that is standard practice for many today? |
NOT: They asked that their name be used because they are proud.
|
Small is prepared to overthrow cultural relativism in anthropology. |
False
|
Tradition is an amalgam of indigenous and outside forces forged over time. |
True
|
Which of the following is true about anthropology according to Small? |
It is heavily inductive.
|
Small argues what will be a central part of anthropology's future? |
Its process.
|
The places anthropologists write about are readily identifiable to anyone in position to affect them. |
True
|
If a society has a taboo against eating pork and a member eats it mistakenly, what types of rituals might the person undergo to fix the transgression? |
Rites of purification
|
Twenty-five percent of the world's population identifies itself as "non-religious." |
False
|
Deceased ancestors have no importance in the patrilineal society of traditional China. |
False
|
All of the following are true about Islamic financing in the U.S. following the 2001 World Trade Center attack except: |
Muslims in the U.S. stopped reporting their income to the Internal Revenue Service.
|
Religion, magic, and witchcraft are all similar in which of the following ways? |
They provide explanation of events and are mechanisms of social control
|
If religious belief reflects the structure of society, in which types of society would you expect to find widespread belief in ancestral spirits? |
Those in which descent groups play a major role in social organization
|
Islamic banking and finance are based on the religious principle of |
lariba (not making asset-based profit).
|
Witchcraft accusations serve as a mechanism of social control. |
True
|
Chiromancy is divination based on the "reading" of |
palms
|
The Ju/'hoansi believe that illness is caused by invisible arrows shot by spirits. |
True
|
Chan monastics discussed in this chapter's Biocultural Connection are in the country of |
Taiwan
|
A full-time religious specialist formally recognized for his or her role in guiding the religious practices of others is called a(n) |
priest or priestess.
|
All of the following statements about Haitian Vodou are correct except: |
believers do not adhere to beliefs of any other religious tradition.
|
The Shamanic Complex is |
the interrelationship of the shaman, patient, and community.
|
The Dalai Lama is a spiritual leader of the Muslim Sufis. |
False
|
According to the North American anthropologist Ralph Linton, about 90% of any culture's content comes from |
diffusion
|
One of the first and most prominent anthropologists to focus on these worldwide transformations was |
Eric Wolf
|
Ethnocide is represented by each of the following except: |
development of new and more devastating weapons as a result of innovation.
|
All cultures are capable of adapting to changing conditions. |
True
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The deliberate use of basic ideas in some practical application, such as making use of the knowledge of how electricity works to develop the telephone, is called a(n) |
secondary innovation.
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In Bolivia, the revitalization movement Qullasuyu promises material riches to indigenous Andean farmers. |
False
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Which of the following statements about diffusion is incorrect? |
Diffusion occurs consistently over time.
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Eric Wolf helped expose counterinsurgency use of anthropological research in Southeast Asia. |
True
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Diffusion is typically forced onto cultures. |
False
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Whose work on river management and resettlement policies in West Africa has opened the ability of applied anthropologists to contribute to decision-making regarding international development projects? |
Michael Horowitz
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All modernizing societies undergo, in a fixed sequence, the stages of technological development, agricultural development, industrialization, and urbanization. |
False
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Applied anthropology began in the 1960s as a way of improving life in developing countries. |
False
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Acculturation differs from other types of processes of change because it always involves an element of |
coercion
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Which of the following is not a goal of the contemporary Qullasuyu revitalization movement in Bolivia? |
Overthrowing the national Bolivian government
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Which of the following is not a phase typically associated with revitalization movements? |
Mass emigration of the followers to other nations in order to spread the religion
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For Small, what reveals the epic drama of globalization? |
The tiny incidents and interactions that compose our lives.
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Small argues the forms of social life seem solid until what happens? |
Stories revel their instability, the impermanent ground on which they rest.
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People are narrowing their networks of reciprocity. |
True
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What is the institution that has grown to meet the difference between Villagers need for and supply of money? |
Finance companies
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What is the methodological value of stories for Small? |
They show us the way the incidents and narratives of our lives intersect with the larger forces of our world.
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Which of the following is the music of the transnational space? |
Rap (Hip Hop)
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Overseas relatives often thing Tongans are misspending the money sent them. |
True
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Reducing the field of obligations is a major aspect of conversation and gossip as well as a major social concern. |
True
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Overseas Tongans have become what? |
A&B
More Poly
More connected to underclass culture
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Patterns of remittances to Tonga are stable. |
False
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Traditional forms are in flux because the relationships that underlie them are shifting beneath the surface. |
True
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The change in Tongan political form, the shift in obligations and feelings between nobles and commoners respond to very different causes and issues. |
False
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Because the need for cash remains relatively constant in Tonga, the same levels of remittances are now adequate to meet need, at least for the foreseeable future. |
False
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Tongans only receive remittances form overseas. Remittances within the Islands are at an all time low. |
False
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Islanders are impressed and happy with the generosity they see in their overseas relatives. |
False
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Emma calls Tongan responsibilities both a fakahela (a pain in the neck) and a "relief to me." |
True
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Which of the following corresponds to a question Small posed? |
NOT: Why the Tongan context produces so much gang activity on the islands?
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The Tongan Island standard of Education is very high and Tongans in the US show high standards of educational completion and success. |
False
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Emma did not want fahu, a father's elder sister, she did not want to give money and stuff to people who don't feed her and her kids or pay her bills. |
True
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Bigamy is not an uncommon strategy among immigrant males. |
True
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The promise of education that helped spur migration has been elusive for Tongan migrants. |
True
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When Emma moved out, how did she describe it? |
As a need to stand alone, something she wanted in America.
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Emma is one o the key family communicators who keeps a flow of internet messages and photos going to keep everyone up to date. |
True
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The physical community seemed what? |
noooooo..... idea..... forgot to answer the question. sry.
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Villagers want more cash in order to participate more fully in village life. |
true
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Small's own interactions were fueling changes she did not want. |
forgot to answer this one too. you have a 50/50 chance of getting it so just guess
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What propels the super vibrancy of tapa cloth production now? |
Cash Needs
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The village looks cleaner according to Malia. |
True
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The overseas seems so distant from village life. |
False
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People resell in "fairs" what is sent to them by overseas relatives. |
True
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Xenophobia tends to occur during very specific situations. Which of the following is least likely to cause xenophobia? |
Prosperity
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Experts predict that global warming will result in higher levels of structural violence. |
True
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Coercive power that is backed up by economic and military force is called |
Hard Power
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Coercive power that is backed up by economic and military force is called |
it exists without ethnocentrism or discrimination.
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Global warming is thought to be primarily caused by |
Burning Fossil Fuels
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What is xenophobia? |
Fear of anything strange or foreign
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As the world's dominant super power, the U.S. is responsible for nearly half of the world's military arms spending. |
True
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The military is an example of soft power when it is not activated in warfare. |
True
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The one thing that all pluralistic states, past and present, irrespective of other differences among them, share is a tendency |
To fragment
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Almost half (44%) of all people in the world get by on less than $2.00 per day. |
False
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Almost 7% of the world's population lives outside its country of birth. |
False
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Applied anthropologist Paul Farmer is associated with all of the following except: |
he works also in Jamaica to treat refugees from war-torn areas of Central America.
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Which of the following organizations is an example of "soft power"? |
CNN
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An art form that has developed recently is tattooing. It involves the puncturing and coloring of human skin with symbolic designs. |
False
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The interpretive approach to rock art among the Bushmen and all over southern Africa indicates a significant influence of |
Shamanism
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Peyote buttons contain a psychotropic substance identified as a(n) |
alkaloid
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Semi-historical narratives that account for the deeds of heroes, the movements of peoples, and the establishment of local customs are called |
legends
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Huichol Indians use the roots of the Chama cactus for their trances. |
False
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Americans are familiar with the story of Cinderella. Similar stories may be found throughout the world: a poor, beautiful girl, downtrodden by her stepmother, receives supernatural aid to win the hand of a noble prince who is searching for a bride. Although the circumstances differ (the girl may be a rural peasant or a servant in a great house, the supernatural helper may be a fairy godmother or a goldfish, the prince may belong to European feudalism or the Aztec empire), all the stories exhibit the same basic |
motif
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Jennifer Neptune was asked by a Native American elder to make a reproduction of a clothes item from the late 18th century seen in a photograph of material artifacts from his tribe. This work allowed the current tribal members to appreciate the rich cultural past of their own tribe. What was this item that she reproduced? |
Collar
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All peoples engage in artistic behavior as they use their imagination creatively to interpret, understand, and even enjoy life. The archaeological record suggests that humans have produced art for how many years? |
40,000
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The narratives that make up the verbal arts include all of the following except: |
paintings
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The significance of tales to anthropologists is partly in their distribution across cultures. |
true
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All of the following are approaches that anthropologists bring to the study of art except: |
assessing the economic value.
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Art is universal to human societies. |
True
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Jennifer Neptune worked with the Penobscot Indians to recover an earlier type of hunting tool tradition. |
False
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Zale Seck is a West African artist from Senegal whose paintings express political and social themes significant in our contemporary global world. |
False
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Your text describes a type of narrative found in many cultures in which a peasant father and his son, while traveling with their beast of burden, meet a number of people who criticize them. What is the motif? |
The "motif" refers to the story situation, in this case, a father and son trying to please everyone.
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