Past Exam Sem 2 2013 Flashcards
The feature that most distinguishes anthropology from other disciplines is:
a) the focus on culture.
b) the method of ethnography.
c) the focus on developing countries.
d) its holistic focus.
b) the method of ethnography.
The term “cross cousins” refers to ego’s:
a) mother’s sister’s children, and mother’s brother’s children if ego is male.
b) father’s brother’s children, and father’s sister’s children if ego is female.
c) father’s brother’s children, and mother’s sister’s children.
d) father’s sister’s children, and mother’s brother’s children.
d) father’s sister’s children, and mother’s brother’s children.
Agency relates most closely to:
a) the fact that culture is shared.
b) the fact that culture is learned.
c) the fact that culture is symbolic.
d) the fact that culture is practised and contested.
d) the fact that culture is practised and contested.
Which of the following is a robust Australopithecine?
a) A. africanus.
b) A. afarensis.
c) A. ramidus.
d) A. boisei.
d) A. boisei.
When you call your lecturer “Dr Underwood” instead of “Mair” you are using:
a) honorifics.
b) diglossia.
c) semantics.
d) kinesics.
a) honorifics
What is the difference between disease and illness?
a) The former is a scientifically identified health threat, and the latter is a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual.
b) The former is a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual, and the latter is a scientifically identified health threat.
c) The former is culturally specific and the latter cross-cultural.
d) The former is caused by genes or a virus, the latter by emotions.
a) The former is a scientifically identified health threat, and the latter is a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual.
Compared with the young of other primates, human children have a long period of dependency (i.e. they are unable to fend for themselves). This is because humans:
a) have big brains and are robust so they have to be born at an earlier developmental stage.
b) have big brains and are bipedal so they have to be born at an earlier developmental stage.
c) are bipedal and gracile so they have to be born at an earlier developmental stage.
d) are robust and have increased dentition so they have to be born at an earlier developmental stage.
b) have big brains and are bipedal so they have to be born at an earlier developmental stage.
According to Kottak, the term ‘emic’ refers to:
a) a research strategy focusing on local explanations and meanings.
b) a research strategy emphasizing the ethnographer’s explanations and categories.
c) a personal portrait of someone’s life in a culture.
d) using diagrams and symbols to record kin connections.
a) a research strategy focusing on local explanations and meanings.
Cultural resource management is an example of applied:
a) biological anthropology.
b) cultural anthropology.
c) social impact analysis.
d) archaeology.
d) archaeology.
In Western societies the general public tend to perceive the relationship between sex and gender in … way.
a) an essentialist
b) a constructivist
c) an unnatural
d) a dynamic
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Which came first?
a) Bipedalism.
b) The expansion of the brain.
c) Stone tool manufacture.
d) Homo habilis.
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Skin colour is:
a) a genetic trait.
b) a phenotypic trait.
c) evidence of Bergmann’s rule at work.
d) evidence of Allen’s rule at work.
b) a phenotypic trait.
- According to Kottak the term ‘nationalities’ refers to:
a) an ethnic group with a biological basis.
b) ethnic groups that have, once had, or want their own country.
c) autonomous political entities.
d) stratified societies with formal governments.
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The lecturer argued that one of the problems with studying religion is due to the fact that religion:
a) seems to deal with the “real” and the “true” in ways that the rest of culture does not.
b) seems to deal with the “unreal” and the “false” in ways that the rest of culture does not.
c) cannot be judged in the same ways as other facets of culture because it is politically incorrect to state that some religions are superior to others.
d) is not a cultural universal, whereas all cultures have languages, kinship systems, economic systems and all the other topics covered in the course.
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Which of the following is not a problem with applying the race concept to humans?
a) No group of humans has ever been reproductively isolated for a significant amount of time.
b) Physical traits don’t cluster or covary.
c) There is more variation within human ‘races’ than between them.
d) Racial classification is based on genotypes.
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The principle of superposition refers to the fact that:
a) in matrilineal societies a widower may marry his dead wife’s sister and thus stay in the matrilineage.
b) a son may challenge and acquire the political position of his father.
c) in an undisturbed sequence the oldest layer is at the bottom.
d) the depth of layers (or strata) in a site are relatively uniform.
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Anthropological approaches to religion have tended to focus on the … of religion:
a) function
b) experience
c) secularity
d) static nature
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Apes who have been taught sign language have demonstrated which features of language?
a) Productivity & displacement.
b) Displacement & arbitrariness.
c) Cultural transmission & productivity.
d) Arbitrariness & kinesics.
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Which of the following contributed the most to the foundation of anthropology as a separate discipline?
a) The idea of culture.
b) The idea of symbols.
c) The recognition of the fact that culture is random.
d) The recognition of many cultures.
d) The recognition of many cultures.
Community archaeology is:
a) the strategic survey of a whole community.
b) the study of how a local community has changed over time.
c) the study of the archaeological community.
d) archaeology of, for and by the local community.
d) archaeology of, for and by the local community.
The area of the brain associated with the production of sound is the:
a) Broca’s area.
b) foramen magnum.
c) Wernicke’s area.
d) Habgood’s area.
a) Broca’s area.
Endogamy is:
a) marriage outside of the group.
b) marriage within the group.
c) cross-cousin marriage.
d) marriage between one woman and multiple men
b) marriage within the group.
The political leaders with the least power to enforce their will are the leaders of:
a) tribes.
b) bands.
c) states.
d) chiefdoms.
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Kottak can be seen to be incorrect (as suggested in the lecture) when he refers to gender in terms of:
a) masculine and feminine.
b) man and woman.
c) boy and girl.
d) male and female.
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