Quiz Chapter 16 & 17

Question 1

In 2014, what portion of children in the United States was delivered surgically by cesarean section?

Answer 1

one-third

Question 2

All of the microorganisms in your body are collectively known as:

Answer 2

the human microbiome

Question 3

According to Gaunt and her study of black girls’ playground games, hand-clapping and rope-jumping embody a combination of movement and voice she calls:

Answer 3

kinetic orality

Question 4

T/F
When cultural movement brings new diseases, medical treatments, and careseekers across national borders, we call this medical migration.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Fine art is creative expression and communication often associated with which social group?

Answer 5

cultural elites

Question 6

T/F

The concept of biomedicine is closely linked with Western economic and political expansion.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

The Western belief that there is an intrinsic way of perceiving art that can be found across all cultures is known as:

Answer 7

universal gaze

Question 8

The individual patient’s experience of being unwell is best known as:

Answer 8

an illness

Question 9

Where is the hub of the West African art trade in the United States?

Answer 9

New York City

Question 10

Local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values are known as:

Answer 10

ethnomedicine

Question 11

What is MOST likely to be a role for medical anthropologists?

Answer 11

studying how staff attitudes affect health care delivery in a New York women’s clinic

Question 12

T/F

Based upon life expectancy, the United States has the healthiest population and most advanced medicine.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

The cultural flows of media and images that enable linkages and communication across boundaries in new ways is known as

Answer 13

the global mediascape

Question 14

T/F

Medical pluralism is the intersection (and use) of multiple cultural approaches to healing.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

T/F
The specialization within anthropology that focuses on human health, illness, and healing is known as disease anthropology.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

According to Winegar’s work on Middle Eastern art, defining “good Middle Eastern art” further reinforces

Answer 16

perceived differences between cultures

Question 17

T/F

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the body’s qi must be in balanced and flowing for one to be in good health.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

If an anthropologist seeks to link environmental factors with local disease, they are investigating the

Answer 18

medical ecology

Question 19

Photographs are often presumed to be neutral in their presentation of images, but in fact represent the perspective of the person behind the camera. This inherent photographic bias is known as:

Answer 19

photographic gaze

Question 20

T/F

From an anthropologist’s perspective, a woman cooking a Thanksgiving feast for her family is an artist.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

T/F
Paleolithic cave paintings in Europe provide evidence that humans already had highly developed artistic skills by 10,000-32,000 years ago.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

According to your textbook, which of the following countries has the highest life expectancy?
Japan
Egypt
China
Australia

Answer 22

Japan

Question 23

The way a person perceives art through his or her senses (as opposed to an intellectual understanding) is best known as the:

Answer 23

aesthetic experience

Question 24

The personal accounts that people tell to explain their experiences of illness are called:

Answer 24

illness narratives

Question 25

T/F

In art, the term authenticity describes an object’s antiquity, uniqueness, and originality within a local culture.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Which of the following perspectives studies health as a system of power?

Answer 26

critical medical anthropology

Question 27

Much of the non-Western art displayed in the West has been gathered through

Answer 27

colonial encounters

Question 28

T/F
Discoveries in Blombos Cave, South Africa suggest that anatomically modern humans were making finely crafted items as early as 75,000 years ago.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

From an anthropologist’s perspective, the ideas, forms, techniques, and strategies that humans employ to express themselves creatively is called:

Answer 29

art

Question 30

Before Easter, the rara processions in Haiti go beyond music by expressing:

Answer 30

the complex power and bloody history of Haiti’s poor and marginalized groups.