Unit 3: Cultural Anthropology Flashcards
Cultural anthropology is the study of patterns of human behavior, which
a)
focus on humans as culture producing and re-producing creatures
b)
are biologically inherited
c)
are inherited and are studied initially by physical anthropologists
d)
operate only when people are unconscious
A. focus on humans as culture producing and reproducing creatures
In order to minimize the impact of subjectivity, the anthropologist should consider all of the following except
a)
how people think they really behave
b)
what the anthropologist actually sees happening
c)
the people’s ideal sense of how a society should be run
d)
what the anthropologist observes in his/her own culture
d)
what the anthropologist observes in his/her own culture
Enculturation is
a)
why children have the capacity to learn any language
b)
how children learns ways of thinking and behaving from their parents
c)
what a person feels when immersed in another culture
d)
when a culture is subsumed under another
b)
how children learns ways of thinking and behaving from their parents
Which of the following would NOT be considered participant observation?
a) Buying a shroud for a village ancestor
b) Engaging in informal small talk
c) Getting a graduate student to administer an interview
d) Helping out at harvest time
C. getting a graduate student to administer an interview
Which of the following is not an element associated with the barrel model of culture (cultural materialist perspective)?
a)
infrastructure
b)
social structure
c)
interstructure
d)
superstructure
c) interstructure
“Culture shock”
a) does not happen to anthropologists because they are cultural relativists.
b) is typical only of people moving from simple to complex cultures.
c) is an indication of how deeply we are attached to our own cultures.
d) is evidence for the universality of the nuclear family.
c) is an indication of how deeply we are attached to our own cultures.
In the N!ai film, a the baby was sick in the community. The doctor said nothing was wrong, yet the shaman said that she was very sick. She was dead not even a month later. In this video who had the etic view?
a) the community
b) the baby
c) the doctor
d) the shaman
C the doctor
There are many reasons why people become members of social groups. Which of the following is NOT true about social groups?
a) Social groups give people a status and identity that goes beyond kinship.
b) A person’s identity as a member of a social group may not be recognized by others.
c) Membership in a group may be achieved or ascribed.
d) Conflicts between groups are mostly due to differences in culture, not wider social structures.
d) Conflicts between groups are mostly due to differences in culture, not wider social structures.
The most preferred form of marriage around the world is
a)
polygamy
b)
polygyny
c)
polyandry
d)
monogamy
b) polygyny
Patrilineality is a form of this descent rule
a)
double
b)
unilineal
c)
bilateral
d)
ambilineal
b) unilineal
Like race, kinship is culturally constructed. This means that
a) like race, kinship is a fiction, with no real social consequences
b) it is a phenomenon separated from other real aspects of society
c) studies of kinship tell us little about people’s actual experiences
d) people perceive and define kin relations differently in different cultures
d) people perceive and define kin relations differently in different cultures
If two people are given the same kinship term, this means that
a)
they are members of an adopted family
b)
they occupy a similar status
c)
they have the same genes
d)
no one can tell the difference between them
b) they occupy a similar status
Which of the following situations involving gender division of labor are likely to produce a sense of equality among males and females?
a) Societies in which males and females have their own separate jobs, but the jobs are considered complementary and equally important.
b) Societies in which females can do males’ work without embarrassment.
c) Societies in which both males and females do each others’ work without embarrassment.
d) Societies in which males and females have their own separate jobs, and certain jobs are considered superior to others
d) Societies in which males and females have their own separate jobs, and certain jobs are considered superior to others
Which of the following best explains the differences between American and Brazilian social constructions of race?
a) English concepts of race were very different from those of the Portuguese
b) Brazilian plantation landlords had sexual relations with their slaves.
c) The Portuguese language had a greater number of intermediate color terms than the English language
d) In Brazil, freed offspring of master and slave filled many intermediate positions in the emerging economy
d) In Brazil, freed offspring of master and slave filled many intermediate positions in the emerging economy
Ethnic identity is defined with reference to such characteristics as
a) a person’s sense of self, regardless of what other people think
b) food, religion, clothing, music, and language
c) genetics, heritage, skin color, and ancestral homeland
d) eye color, height, nose shape, and hair color
b) food, religion, clothing, music, and language
