✅(Quiz 8) Flashcards
About Basso’s Wisdom Sits in Places
What type of storytelling is used to reprimand bad behavior?
a) joke
b) gossip
c) myth
d) saga
e) historical tale
historical tale
About Basso’s Wisdom Sits in Places
What metaphor was used by the grandmother to describe what she said to her 17-year-old granddaughter who wore pink curlers at her puberty rite?
a) wisdom sits in places
b) threw shade
c) quoting ancestors
d) gave her the evil eye
e) shot her with an arrow
shot her with an arrow
What distinguishes fieldwork in anthropology from other disciplines?
a) dependence on historical documents
b) extensive use of laboratory experiments
c) prolonged immersion in the field
d) focus on urban communities only
e) reliance on surveys
prolonged immersion in the field
What does the term “cultural relativism” imply in anthropology?
a) all cultures are ranked hierarchically
b) universal moral principles apply to all cultures
c) economies define cultural success
d) cultures must be understood in their own unique logic
cultures must be understood in their own unique logic
How does Eriksen define “culture” in anthropology?
a)a static and unchanging entity
b)an innate ability of humans
c)the study of historical civilizations
d)acquired behaviors, notions, and forms within a society
e)a biological trait
acquired behaviors, notions, and forms within a society
Wade Davis, in his TED Talk, said the following: “Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.” Which of the following best explains what he means?
a) language and nature are the same.
b) language can be reconstructed by restoring nature.
c) nature is lost along with language.
d) language can survive without nature.
e) when language is lost, so is a unique understanding of nature.
when language is lost, so is a unique understanding of nature
About Basso’s Wisdom Sits in Places
In Chapter 4, which place-name did Dudley Patterson say to Talbert Paxson after he returned to work from weeks of being an utter mess due to a breakup with his girlfriend?
a) Water Lies with Mud in an Open Container
b) Big Cottonwood Trees Stand Here and There
c) Whiteness Spreads Out Descending to Water
d) Trail Goes Down between Two Hills
e) Grasshopper Piled Up Across
Trail Goes Down between Two Hills
What does Eriksen suggest is a major strength of ethnographic fieldwork?
a) it relies exclusively on quantitative surveys
b) it allows for laboratory-style scientific rigor
c) it provides deep, qualitative insights into social life
d) it avoids ethical dilemmas entirely
e) it avoids personal involvement in research
it provides deep, qualitative insights into social life
About Basso’s Wisdom Sits in Places
What statement below best describes what the title of the book “Wisdom Sits in Places” means?
a) the community must protect historical places.
b) wise elders never move, but are always sitting.
c) fools run around places but never sits.
d) old ideas must be discarded in specific places.
e) places contain wisdom for the community.
places contain wisdom for the community
Of what is the word “this” an example? (As noted in the lecture on Language Theory
a) semantic
b) deixis
c) linguistic relativity
d) signifier
e) speech
deixis
Semantic
→ the philosophical and scientific study of meaning in natural and artificial languages
Deixis
→ the use of words or phrases to indicate the context of an utterance.
ex) this, then, you…
Linguistic relativity
→ the proposal that the particular language we speak influences the way we think about reality
Signifier
→ the physical form of a sign, such as a word, image, or sound
ex) evacuation sign
Speech
→a speech act is any utterance that serves a function in communication
