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ANT100 Refined Exam Questions And
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Some social scientists believe that Increased emphasis placed on appearance increases body
anxiety, but it may also diminish other attributes formerly essential to success, such as
family, birth, and character. One reason attractiveness has such social and emotional
significance is the emergence of "elective sexuality" and sexual autonomy as desire and
pleasure are partially de-linked from reproduction, familial control, and traditional moralities.
- answers✔✔T
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is illegal in the United States - answers✔✔F
The earliest evidence of female genital modification (FGC/FGM/female circumcision) dates
back as early as the "second century BC on the western coast of the Red Sea (now modern-
day Egypt). Based on current geographic locations of similar practices, they seems to have
originated in Egypt and has spread south and west. These practices were rooted in the
Pharaohnic belief in the bisexuality of the gods. - answers✔✔T
Various practices involving the physical alteration of female genitalia (FGC/female
circumcision/FGM) was a common practice throughout Europe before the eighteenth century.
- answers✔✔F
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) states that as "human beings we
are born free and equal in dignity and rights; we possess the inalienable right to freedom of
religion in practice and the indispensible social and cultural rights for the dignity and freedom
of an individual's personality," it is favoring the values of individualistic societies over those
of more collectivist societies. - answers✔✔T
Some types of FGM are on the rise in the United States - answers✔✔T
type 1 - answers✔✔The oartical or total removal of the clitoris and.or hood
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type 4 - answers✔✔All other harmful procedures
type 2 - answers✔✔removal of clitoris and labia
Male genital mutilation is normative in the United States. - answers✔✔T
The term female genital cutting (FGC), is used by some because they believe it is a more
direct term that does not dehumanize individuals in the way the term Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM) does. They argue that the term FGM confer a moralizing tone that hastily
concludes negative implications before an explanation is offered. The term female
circumcision is also used to draw a parallel to practices involving male circumcision. -
answers✔✔T
Indicate each common reason that has been proposed for the various practices involving the
modification of female genitalia. - answers✔✔AlL
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is illegal in the United States - answers✔✔T
The development of large stratified and densely populated "civilizations" over the last few
thousand years has created a public sphere and domestic/private sphere that has often
exacerbated the distinction and distance between gender roles and those of different genders.
- answers✔✔T
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of scientists, immersed in
Darwinian theories, began to explore the evolutionary roots of what they assumed to be
universal: male dominance. Of course, scientists, like the rest of us, view the world partially
through their own cultural lenses and through a gendered version. Prior to the 1970s, women
and gender relations were largely invisible in the research literature and most researchers
were male so it is not surprising that 1960s theories reflected prevailing male-oriented folk
beliefs about gender - answers✔✔T
Around 5% of individuals are born with ambiguous genitals and are sometimes called
intersex. - answers✔✔T
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Cultures with a third gender have what is called a binary-gender system. - answers✔✔F
Anthropologists first began to study sex, gender, and sexuality during the 1960s and 1970s. -
answers✔✔F
For most of human history, the 99 percent of it prior to the invention of agriculture some
10,000 or so years ago, women have "worked," often providing the stable sources of food for
their family. - answers✔✔T
Marriage also is not "natural." It is a cultural invention that involves various meanings and
functions in different cultural contexts - answers✔✔T
Gender identity varies within a society, especially when gendered individuals have different
ethnic, religious, national, and class backgrounds. - answers✔✔T
Generally speaking, what constitutes masculine, or feminine behavior are the same in all
cultures. - answers✔✔F
Cross-culturally, marriage seems to be primarily about societal regulation of relationships—a
social contract between two individuals and, often, their families, that specifies rights and
obligations of married individuals and of the offspring that married women produce. Some
anthropologists have argued that marriage IS primarily about children and "descent"—who
will "own" children.68 To whom will they belong? With what rights, obligations, social
statuses, access to resources, group identities, and all the other assets—and liabilities—that
exist within a society? - answers✔✔T
One's biologic sex is a different phenomenon than one's gender, which is socially and
historically constructed. Gender is a set of culturally invented expectations and therefore
constitutes a role one assumes, learns, and performs. - answers✔✔T
Second-wave feminism was principally about women gaining the right to vote. -
answers✔✔F
13/11/2024 4:20PM
ANT100 Refined Exam Questions And
Answers
Some social scientists believe that Increased emphasis placed on appearance increases body
anxiety, but it may also diminish other attributes formerly essential to success, such as
family, birth, and character. One reason attractiveness has such social and emotional
significance is the emergence of "elective sexuality" and sexual autonomy as desire and
pleasure are partially de-linked from reproduction, familial control, and traditional moralities.
- answers✔✔T
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is illegal in the United States - answers✔✔F
The earliest evidence of female genital modification (FGC/FGM/female circumcision) dates
back as early as the "second century BC on the western coast of the Red Sea (now modern-
day Egypt). Based on current geographic locations of similar practices, they seems to have
originated in Egypt and has spread south and west. These practices were rooted in the
Pharaohnic belief in the bisexuality of the gods. - answers✔✔T
Various practices involving the physical alteration of female genitalia (FGC/female
circumcision/FGM) was a common practice throughout Europe before the eighteenth century.
- answers✔✔F
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) states that as "human beings we
are born free and equal in dignity and rights; we possess the inalienable right to freedom of
religion in practice and the indispensible social and cultural rights for the dignity and freedom
of an individual's personality," it is favoring the values of individualistic societies over those
of more collectivist societies. - answers✔✔T
Some types of FGM are on the rise in the United States - answers✔✔T
type 1 - answers✔✔The oartical or total removal of the clitoris and.or hood
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type 4 - answers✔✔All other harmful procedures
type 2 - answers✔✔removal of clitoris and labia
Male genital mutilation is normative in the United States. - answers✔✔T
The term female genital cutting (FGC), is used by some because they believe it is a more
direct term that does not dehumanize individuals in the way the term Female Genital
Mutilation (FGM) does. They argue that the term FGM confer a moralizing tone that hastily
concludes negative implications before an explanation is offered. The term female
circumcision is also used to draw a parallel to practices involving male circumcision. -
answers✔✔T
Indicate each common reason that has been proposed for the various practices involving the
modification of female genitalia. - answers✔✔AlL
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is illegal in the United States - answers✔✔T
The development of large stratified and densely populated "civilizations" over the last few
thousand years has created a public sphere and domestic/private sphere that has often
exacerbated the distinction and distance between gender roles and those of different genders.
- answers✔✔T
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of scientists, immersed in
Darwinian theories, began to explore the evolutionary roots of what they assumed to be
universal: male dominance. Of course, scientists, like the rest of us, view the world partially
through their own cultural lenses and through a gendered version. Prior to the 1970s, women
and gender relations were largely invisible in the research literature and most researchers
were male so it is not surprising that 1960s theories reflected prevailing male-oriented folk
beliefs about gender - answers✔✔T
Around 5% of individuals are born with ambiguous genitals and are sometimes called
intersex. - answers✔✔T
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Cultures with a third gender have what is called a binary-gender system. - answers✔✔F
Anthropologists first began to study sex, gender, and sexuality during the 1960s and 1970s. -
answers✔✔F
For most of human history, the 99 percent of it prior to the invention of agriculture some
10,000 or so years ago, women have "worked," often providing the stable sources of food for
their family. - answers✔✔T
Marriage also is not "natural." It is a cultural invention that involves various meanings and
functions in different cultural contexts - answers✔✔T
Gender identity varies within a society, especially when gendered individuals have different
ethnic, religious, national, and class backgrounds. - answers✔✔T
Generally speaking, what constitutes masculine, or feminine behavior are the same in all
cultures. - answers✔✔F
Cross-culturally, marriage seems to be primarily about societal regulation of relationships—a
social contract between two individuals and, often, their families, that specifies rights and
obligations of married individuals and of the offspring that married women produce. Some
anthropologists have argued that marriage IS primarily about children and "descent"—who
will "own" children.68 To whom will they belong? With what rights, obligations, social
statuses, access to resources, group identities, and all the other assets—and liabilities—that
exist within a society? - answers✔✔T
One's biologic sex is a different phenomenon than one's gender, which is socially and
historically constructed. Gender is a set of culturally invented expectations and therefore
constitutes a role one assumes, learns, and performs. - answers✔✔T
Second-wave feminism was principally about women gaining the right to vote. -
answers✔✔F
