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To avoid speaking the name of a dead person in Yanomamo society or
carrying on everyday activities
before the seal that has been killed can be butchered in Inuit society are
examples of which of the
following?
A) Ritual
B) Taboo
C) Ceremony
D) Rational Explanation Correct Answer: B) Taboo
According to the textbook, cultural practices are socially, not biologically
transmitted. What is it called when non-human animals,
such as some monkey groups, pass learned behavior to subsequent
generations?
A) Protoculture
B) Horticulture
C) Cultural Evolution
D) Non-human animals do not pass on learned behavior Correct Answer: A)
Protoculture
,According to lecture, when the Cheyenne Peace Chiefs restored clothes,
horses, and weapons to the Arapaho hunters whose
belongings had been taken because they had spoiled the hunt—a debt that
the hunters could never repay—is an example of which
of the following?
A) Prestation
B) Balanced Reciprocity
C) Skewed Reciprocity
D) Negative Reciprocity Correct Answer: C) Skewed Reciprocity
Ascribed relationships exist between people whether or not they act to
reinforce them through exchange.
A) True B) False Correct Answer: A) True
Sharing meat among hunters does which of the following for the group?
A) Creates obligations that bind the hunters
B) Reinforces kinship and other relationships
C) Ensures that a hunter's family will have meat, even when his hunts are not
successful
D) All of the above Correct Answer: D) All of the above
__________ is essentially the idea that a particular set of customs or beliefs is
relative to a specific cultural tradition and can only
,be evaluated and understood in that context.
A) Anthropology
B) Cultural Relativism
C) Ethnology
D) Ethnocentrism Correct Answer: B) Cultural Relativism
An American visiting another country who won't eat the food because it "looks
and smells funny" or says that one of their
cultural traditions is "stupid" or "silly" would be examples of which of the
following?
A) Ethnocentrism
B) Cultural Relativism
C) Cultural Understanding
D) A participant observer Correct Answer: A) Ethnocentrism
According to lecture, if you go out to dinner with a friend and the friend pays,
leaving you feeling obligated to buy him/her dinner
the next night so that you do not continue to have an obligation to him/her,
what does that say about the quality of your
relationship?
A) You have a strong, enduring relationship with that person
, B) You have a weak, possibly distrustful relationship with that person
C) This exchange says nothing about the relationship you have with that person
D) You will only be able to evaluate the relationship after you have repaid the
social debt Correct Answer: B) You have a weak, possibly distrustful relationship
with that person
According to Barrett, Benabarre's informants were surprised to discover that
they had arranged the cards into social "piles"; this
is an example of...
A) Ideal behavior
B) Fieldwork
C) Latent underlying form
D) Subjective understanding Correct Answer: C) Latent underlying form
According to Barrett, the reason the anthropologist did not intervene while
witnessing the ritual teeth pulling of young Dodoth
girls is because the job of the anthropologist is to determine the meaning of
cultural practices within the context of the culture as a
whole. This is known as...
A) An unconscious paradigm
B) An immersed informant
C) Proper behavior
Answers
To avoid speaking the name of a dead person in Yanomamo society or
carrying on everyday activities
before the seal that has been killed can be butchered in Inuit society are
examples of which of the
following?
A) Ritual
B) Taboo
C) Ceremony
D) Rational Explanation Correct Answer: B) Taboo
According to the textbook, cultural practices are socially, not biologically
transmitted. What is it called when non-human animals,
such as some monkey groups, pass learned behavior to subsequent
generations?
A) Protoculture
B) Horticulture
C) Cultural Evolution
D) Non-human animals do not pass on learned behavior Correct Answer: A)
Protoculture
,According to lecture, when the Cheyenne Peace Chiefs restored clothes,
horses, and weapons to the Arapaho hunters whose
belongings had been taken because they had spoiled the hunt—a debt that
the hunters could never repay—is an example of which
of the following?
A) Prestation
B) Balanced Reciprocity
C) Skewed Reciprocity
D) Negative Reciprocity Correct Answer: C) Skewed Reciprocity
Ascribed relationships exist between people whether or not they act to
reinforce them through exchange.
A) True B) False Correct Answer: A) True
Sharing meat among hunters does which of the following for the group?
A) Creates obligations that bind the hunters
B) Reinforces kinship and other relationships
C) Ensures that a hunter's family will have meat, even when his hunts are not
successful
D) All of the above Correct Answer: D) All of the above
__________ is essentially the idea that a particular set of customs or beliefs is
relative to a specific cultural tradition and can only
,be evaluated and understood in that context.
A) Anthropology
B) Cultural Relativism
C) Ethnology
D) Ethnocentrism Correct Answer: B) Cultural Relativism
An American visiting another country who won't eat the food because it "looks
and smells funny" or says that one of their
cultural traditions is "stupid" or "silly" would be examples of which of the
following?
A) Ethnocentrism
B) Cultural Relativism
C) Cultural Understanding
D) A participant observer Correct Answer: A) Ethnocentrism
According to lecture, if you go out to dinner with a friend and the friend pays,
leaving you feeling obligated to buy him/her dinner
the next night so that you do not continue to have an obligation to him/her,
what does that say about the quality of your
relationship?
A) You have a strong, enduring relationship with that person
, B) You have a weak, possibly distrustful relationship with that person
C) This exchange says nothing about the relationship you have with that person
D) You will only be able to evaluate the relationship after you have repaid the
social debt Correct Answer: B) You have a weak, possibly distrustful relationship
with that person
According to Barrett, Benabarre's informants were surprised to discover that
they had arranged the cards into social "piles"; this
is an example of...
A) Ideal behavior
B) Fieldwork
C) Latent underlying form
D) Subjective understanding Correct Answer: C) Latent underlying form
According to Barrett, the reason the anthropologist did not intervene while
witnessing the ritual teeth pulling of young Dodoth
girls is because the job of the anthropologist is to determine the meaning of
cultural practices within the context of the culture as a
whole. This is known as...
A) An unconscious paradigm
B) An immersed informant
C) Proper behavior
