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1
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The gender ideology that considers women as moral and spiritual superiors to men is

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Marianismo

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Machismo is mostly present in ________ social groups

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Urban mestizo communities

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An example of how dominant gender expectations are contested is:

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  • Chile; Allende
  • Nicaragua defenders of children
  • Argentina Madre of the plaza de mayo
  • Sexuality: eating, matrifocality
  • makes : alcohol & fatherhood
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In which ancient society did women have their own power, politics, and religion; their own cults, and had their contributions recognized?

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Inca

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While there is diversity in fatherhood practices in Mexico, where are tim most likely to find the “detached father”

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  • in middle and upper class
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Which country has the greatest gender equality in Latin America?

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Cuba

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Gender stereotypes, particularly those linked to marianismo, are frequently contested across

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  • being in the army

- matrifocality (women being head of household)

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Who was Xochiquetzal?

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  • Aztec goddess of sex and gender
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Which of the following best describes a mandilon?

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  • man critiqued for helping women in family chores & for not having children despite being in a relationship
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In urban settings, who plays a key role in helping women move up the corporate ladder?

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  • unpaid family labour from grandparents who take care of the children while their mothers work
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True or false: in contemporary Latin American societies, parenthood lasts a lifetime

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True

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According to Pierre Bourdieu, the different types of capital that determine social class are:

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  • economic
  • cultural
  • symbolic
  • social
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Who was Rigoberta Menchu?

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  • A Mayan political and human rights activist
  • awarded for a Nobel prize for her activism in Guatemala
  • critiqued for her narrative concerning indigenous groups in Guatemala
  • sought refuge in Mexico due to atrocities committed in Guatemala
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The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo rally to protect the memory and demand the whereabouts of individuals, particularly students, who ‘disappeared’ as a part of which country?

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Argentina

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What factors contributed to the civil strife and violence that riddled Central America from the 1970s through to the 1980s?

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  • expansion of export agriculture
  • appropriation of peasant and land labour
  • coalescence of powerful national elites
  • forging of strong, repressive states
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16
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In what ways has revolutionary violence related to structural violence across Latin America?

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  • structural violence cut across institutions

- revolutionary violence - uprise against institutions

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17
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Which of the following is true about carnaval?

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  • African heritage

- masses rule the carnaval and the elite follow the masses

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What were the results of the Mexican Revolution on the religion?

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  • religion became anti- constitutional
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True or false: the fiestas patronales are a display of traditional catholic system beliefs?

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False

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What is one side effect that the rise of Protestantism has had on Mexican society?

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  • rejection of violence to those who do not practice
  • communities divided
  • didn’t spend as much money
  • Protestant missionaries tried to address other issues: health, work etc.
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According to the textbook, which of the following would be an example of religious syncretism?

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  • cathedral in Quito Ecuador with the last supper with a guinea pig
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22
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Why is the Virgin Guadalupe such an important figure in Mexico?-

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  • Mexican symbol of the Virgin Mary
  • icon of Mexican national identity
  • appeared to dark skinned Indian Juan Diego
  • revered in Mexico for struggle for better life (especially by women)
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Which of the following is NOT true about cultural values

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  • they do not directly correspond to cultural behaviours
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What are the critical dimensions presented in cultural values lecture?

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Individual - collective
Equal - hierarchy
Achieve - be
Uncertainty avoidance 
Time
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25
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Which if the following is not a critical dimension presented in the cultural values lecture

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Local- global

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26
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An individualist universalist

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Absolute and equal

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27
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A collectivist particularist

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No absolutes, everyone unique

28
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Which of the following statements is correct?

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  • a collectivist particularist believes that there are no absolutes and that everyone should be treated uniquely
29
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Who, among Haiti’s population, is somsideded the most affected and vulnerable to contraction of HIV/ AIDS?

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Poor women

30
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What distinguishes the folk illness nervios from susto and mal de ojos?

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Nervios- loss of emotional and bodily control

Susto - stress or fear that stays with you
Mal de ojo- envy
Nervios

31
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True or false: popular culture is not a static entity, but changes based on social meaning

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True

32
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What is one way a family might protect themselves from mal de ojo?

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  • babies wear necklaces
  • hide babies
  • Lower or hide success
33
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Which of the following beast describes the Cashinahua of Amazonian Brazil and Peru’s conception of the developmental trajectory of the human body?

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  • weren’t male or female
  • don’t differentiate between body and soul
  • not simply a natural or biological process
  • body is “made to grow” - growth through interactions with others and spirits for learning
34
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Which of the following factors contribute to the dramatic increase in Tuberculosis incidences across Latin America over the last several decades?

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  • biomedical: emergence of drug- resistant strains of TH and coinfection with HIV
  • political, economic, and cultural
  • civil strife and mass migration of refugees
  • stigmatization and lack of integration between bio and ethnomedical systems
  • growing poverty - growing gap between haves and have nots
  • poverty, gender inequality, disease stigmatization & sharp rise in poverty
35
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According to the textbook, a key characteristic of popular culture in Latin America is the fact that

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  • hard to define
36
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Tango is widely associated with Argentina. Which other country’s national identity is associated with a long tradition of Tango?

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Uruguay

37
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Which widely known figure played baseball, and used it to help build his or her country’s national identity?

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  • Fidel Castro
38
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Which of the following demonstrates the social importance of telenovelas?

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  • reflects public symbolic world
  • family ritual
  • Central issues
  • forging a continent wide Latin American identity
  • forging a more homogenous national culture and sense of identity understood by most people
39
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Why is Protestantism growing in Latin America?

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  • do not drink, smoke, dance, or gamble
  • do not venerate saints, reject artificial representations of saints and demons
  • do not participate in confradia rituals
  • reject compradazago
  • reject communal celebrations of saints days
  • less money
  • ministers come in and promote benefits (health, employment)
40
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What does susto mean?

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Fright; espanto

41
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When does carnaval start?

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  • 40 days before wasted; start of lent
42
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True or false - telenovelas are Latin American soap operas?

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True

43
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A narcocorrido glorifies

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  • drug dealers; drug culture
44
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Machismo is tied to this country

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Mexico

45
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Neolocal residence is when the couple resides

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  • separately from both parents houses
46
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Multi sided ethnography takes place in

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  • multiple locations
47
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Religious syncretism is

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A blending of compartmentalization of supernatural deities drawn from the catholic, indigenous, and African pantheons

48
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What is ethnomedicine

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The culturally specific medical systems in non- western societies - usually focus on social and cultural factors

49
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Deforestation is a major issue in the

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Amazon

50
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Baseball is popular in what country?

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  • Dominican Republic
51
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What is a Quincenera?

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  • celebration for when women turn 15 years old in Mexico and Central America
52
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Coups, revolutionary movements, and violence have affected

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Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Chiapas Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Nicaragua/ El Salvador

53
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Who, among Haitis population is considered the most affected and vulnerable to contradiction of HIV/ AIDS?

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Poor women

54
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True or false- In contemporary Latin America, the groups with the lowest socioeconomic status have the darkest skin tones

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True

55
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What are the four forms of class capital?

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  • economic, cultural, symbolic, and social
56
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Latin American dances which focus on hip movements originate from

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Africa

57
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In Latin America, employment opportunities are based primarily on

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Family connections

58
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How does the level of confianza (closeness) between individuals affect the magnitude of favores (favours)

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  • closeness = more favours
59
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In which society is machismo and marianismo most often seen?

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  • Mestizo
60
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What is a characteristic of the nurtured childhood ideology

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  • nurtured
    Children have high income
  • aren’t supposed to do much work, are supposed to be taken care of
  • mother is responsible for providing, children don’t do chores
  • poorer children are nurturing, richer families children are supposed to be nurtured
  • obesity - nurturing is feedings
61
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What is the cargo system in Latin America

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  • a community obligation in the catholic system

- unpaid role or council in the religious system

62
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_____ is to Latin Americans what hockey is to _______

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Soccer; Canada

63
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How is social rank expressed?

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  • language
  • titles (terms of address)
  • seating
  • dress
64
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In areas of Latin America is it okay to arrive a half hour late when meeting with friends

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Yes

65
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Who is the “collective society” that people in Latin America identify with

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  • their family
66
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In an individual society you treat ______. In a collective society you treat ______

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Individual society you treat everybody equally, in a collective society you treat everyone uniquely

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