FINAL EXAM Flashcards
Which of the following is a political act
Gossiping, running for president, or protesting
all of these
in most of the worlds cultures, when people have disputes they are most concerned with willing and losing true or fa;se
FALSE
A key feature of political anthropologist Maxwell Owusu’s perspective on democracy in Ghana is that the state will work better if chiefs play a role in decision making true or false
TRUE
you and your siblings are fighting over who gets to use the family car. When your parent intervenes and seeks a solution that is agreeable to both of you. This is an example of…
mediation
a society with no governmental head is an _____ government
acephalous
the importance of structural functionalism is that it…
showed colonial governments that non western societies have order without formal goverenment
the importance of a phenomenon like revenge suicide inn Papua new guinea is that it…
demonstrates that the nonpoweful have ways of exercising political power
which of the following social structure was identified as a way that African societies maintained order
associations, religious practices, kinship, or all of the above
all of the above
which of the following English philosophers were concerned with the problem of disorder and argued that chaos is avoidable by creating a strong government
Hobbes and Locke
a society’s legal and constitutional domain that is the source of aw, order, and legitimate force is the ____
Government
an important dimension of political is
All of the above
people living in non centralized political systems have generally welcomed their integration into centralized (nation state) political systems because it provides greater security and prosperity for them true or false
FALSE
the legal process by which an individual or council with socially recognized authority intervenes in a dispute and unilaterally makes a division is…
adjudication
for a big man in a non state society, what is the most powerful and valuable tool
persuasion
the practice in which a third party intervenes in a dispute to aid the parties in reaching an agreement is called…
authority
all forms of political power require
legitimacy
for anthropologist, political power refers to
how power is used to attain goals for the good of the community
french existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir argued in her book the second sex that
throughout history women have been treated as infrerior
sexual dimorphism refers to
all of the above
according to some feminist anthropologists a critical limitation of second wave feminism is that it..
all of above
which of the following is dilemma facing an ethnographer of transgender people in the US
how one’s research or advocacy can reinforce social inequalities and suffering
individual who diverge from the male-female norm and exhibit sexual organs and functions somewhere between, including both male and female are called…
intersexed
Indiana university biologist Dr. Alfred Kinsey conducted a series of sexuality studies during the 1940s and found that…
most people are hederosexual
why did liberian rebel soldiers cross dress during the civil war in the 1990s
it distinguished them from the governments soldiers
a number of societies have the notion that men are ____ and women are ____
Created;natural
a key finding of anthropologist Matthew Gutmanns fieldwork on masculinity in mexico is that…
women challenge mens domination over them by arguing and issuing ultmatums
which issue(s) would you focus on if you wanted to understand changing ideas about masculinity in the US
all of the above
one of the reasons it is important to develop culturally sensitive campaigns to adress a health crisis like HIV or AIDS is that
what some people think is gay sex is not considered to be the case by others
all societies differentiate between male and female, but one way Americans do so is by linking gender to what
colors
____ is the set of cultural expectations for how males and females should behave
penal code
Hijras interest anthropologists mainly because they are
a reflection of a gender/sex system that sees meaning in combining male and female
anthropologists commonly refer to the ideas and social patterns a society uses to organize male female and those who do not fit in either category as…
gender/sex system
a common misconception about hormones in human bodies is that
all of the above
which term refers to expressions of sex and gender that diverge from the dominant male and female norms of most societies
gender variance
images knowledge and concepts of the physical landscape that effect how humans will actually interact with it (the landscape) is called
a cultural landscape
sometimes the very landscape that Westerners want to conserve without people on them are actually the result of indigenous involvement and manipulation. these are called ___ landscapes
artifactual
one of the primary reason indigenous leaders criticize the dominant model for administering protected environmental areas is
they assume nature must be uninhabited by people
Consumer capitalism contributes to increasing ecological footprints in industrialized nations because
all of the above
many non western societies have conservation traditions that are based on distinct principles of human/nature relationship true or false
TRUE
a key feature of ____ movements is there a tension to the linkages between social marginalization and environmental desegregation
environmental justice
___ development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
sastainable
which of the following methods allow Fairhead and Leach to make their conclusions that forest in Guinea are expanding rather than shrinking
all of the above
___ are important because they demonstrate that many landscapes that seem wild are actually the product of human shaping
artifactual landscapes
Jared Dimond’s veiw that nature and environmental conditions (availability of oxygen, for example) shape the characteristics and life ways of a group of people is known as environmental ____
determanism
what relationship between nature and human does western (particularly evolutionary) thought emphasise
oppositional
what part of the Zapotec agricultural system does not correspond well to western ecological understandings
the idea that maize has a sole
Traditional ecological knowledge is not well known in the west because
all of the above
what is fortress conservation
an approach to conservation that assumes that all people are threatening to nature
what do environmental anthropologists study
all of the above
all knowledge systems about nature, including science, are culturally baased
TRUE
mother nature and natural resources are a good example of
metaphors of human-nature interaction
__ is a major world religion that is neither monotheistic or polytheistic
budisum
stylized performances involving symbols that are associated with social, political, and religious activities
rituals
___ can be understood as raw supernatural power that is not caused by a person or spirit
mana
which of the following is an example of american totenism
sports team
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 refereed to as…
the interpretive approach
EB Taylor identified ____ as the belife that inanimate objects such as trees, hills, clifs, and rivers are animated by spiritual forces or beings
Animism
a good illustration of a ____ is a funeral, wedding, graduation, or initiation in which an individual or group of individuals change social position
rite of passage
in some Pentecostal and charismatic christian religions adherents experience an ecstatic religious happening which is known as
speaking in tongues
a central assertion of the ____ is that religious thinking is gradually giving way to secular thought without relying on references to any form of supernatural power
secularization hypothesis
why do fundamentalists often use the language of returning to traditional values in their ideologies and rituals
all of the above
a voodoo doll is a good illustration
magic that follows the law of similarity
what are people who belong to conservative religious movements that advocate a return to traditional principles called
fundamentalists
the corner of Anthony F.C. Wallace’s understanding of religion was the belief in
supernatural things
magical techniques may involve
all of the above
what is a life cycle ritual that marks a person’s or group of person’s transition from one social state to another
rite of passage
___ is the system of thought that associates particular social groups with specific animal or plant
totemism
a key feature of religious beliefs and behaviors is that they are rooted in
social behavior and social action
the religious leader who communicates the needs of the living with the spirit world, usually through some form of ritual trance or other altered state of consciousness, is called a _____
Shaman
Race can become biology, by shaping people’s biological outcomes due to disparities in access to certain kinds of healthcare and diets exposure to certain kinds of diseases
TRUE
a key difference between castes and social class is
caste divides people in terms of moral purity, class in socioeconomic terms
censuses interest anthropologists became they
all of the above
saying race is culturally construed is not enough because race has real ___
evolutionary suppoort
the state of tension between one’s belief and ones behavior which compels the mind to acquire or intent new thoughts
cognitive dissonance
why would English colonial leaders portray Africans as uncivilized heathens
to justify slavery