Anthropology 205 Exam 3 Lynch Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
Ethnomedicine - Answers What is information that pertains to theories of disease and forms of
therapy specific to a given culture?
Human universals - Answers Sickness and diseases are what?
Trephination - Answers What is a type of therapy where surgery is preformed by cutting a small
hole into the skull in circular shape and removing part of the skull?
to let something out, such as an evil spirit, demon, or even pressure - Answers What did
indigenous people believe that trephination was for?
Too much complex knowledge to have happened at random or at chance, the scientific method
must have been used - Answers How were medicinal plants discovered?
medicinal plants - Answers What were often strong alkaloids?
oxytoxic - Answers What is an agent used to induce contraction during labor that is found in
Avocado and Papaya plants?
zoonose - Answers What is an infectious disease spread by animals that can naturally be
transmitted to humans that is high virulence and unrecognizable?
China - Answers Where was a zoonose originated?
Koryak shaman - Answers Who gave patients Amanita muscaria (hallucinogenic mushrooms),
then drank the patient's urine, and then hallucinates and has visions of the cure for that patient?
Siberia - Answers Where are the Koryak people from?
Amanita muscaria - Answers What is an hallucinogenic mushroom used by the Koryaks for cure
and recreational purposes?
By watching animal behavior (reindeer love the mushrooms and drink each other's urine) -
Answers How did the Koryak people discover drinking the urine of those who ate the
mushrooms would get you high?
Probably from reindeers getting high after eating mushrooms and jumping/ hopping around -
Answers What is probably the origin of the idea that reindeers can fly?
- In traditional societies, it is believed there is a finite amount of "good" to go around.
- In other words the amount of land, money, etc. available is held to be finite, so every time one
person profits, another one loses. - Answers What is the concept of the Limited Good?
The World's Have-Not's (rural and urban poor) - Answers What is an off-shoot, or product of
state level societies and market economies?
,-high infant mortality rates
-poor health and nutrition
-little or no autonomy
-unequal distribution of income - Answers Describe the world's have-nots:
50% - Answers What percent of the world's population is a part of the world's have-nots?
30% - Answers What percent of the world lives on a dollar a day or less? (extreme poverty)
40-42 years old - Answers What is the average life expectancy for those living in extreme
poverty?
- geography
- Lack of land/resources
- climate
- Only recently oil, metals, construction metals, etc have become crucial for the development of
countries
- history of colonization
-rural to urban migration
-cultural lag - Answers What are the reasons for underdevelopment?
many times, the base of which many indigenous countries could have started their wealth was
stolen and their resources were often stripped by dominating countries - Answers What is the
history of colonization?
70% - Answers In 1914, what percent of the world's population lived in colonies?
5 times - Answers In the US, the richest 10% earns how much more than the poorest 40%?
28 times - Answers In Brazil the richest 10% made how much more than the poorest 40%?
agrarian family ideals
-people from rural areas bring their agrarian ideals when they migrate to urban areas (such as
having lots and lots of children) which causes extremely crowded shanty towns and disease -
Answers What is an example of rural to urban migration and the cultural gap?
Penny Capitalism
, - Indigenous economies in which there is land tenure over tiny plots of land, where farmers
produce crop surplus and engage in small-scale trading. - Answers What is desperate Supply &
Selective Demand?
-Guatemalan peasants
-minimum salaries
-selling of wares
-international companies and cheap labor - Answers What are examples of penny capitalism?
- Poor Public Hygiene
- Scrimshaw's Vicious Cycle:
- Epidemics: AIDS, tropical diseases
- Lack of Adequate Medical Care
- Infant Feeding Practices - Answers What are the health Conditions like in the world's have-nots?
They tend to not breastfeed and formula is expensive, mixing dirty water with the powder
introduces bacteria and parasites - Answers Why are the infant feeding practices with the
world's have-nots so bad?
> Malnutrition > Intestinal Parasites > Diarrhea > Weakening of the Immune System > Infectious
Diseases > - Answers What is scrimshaw's vicious cycle?
Scrimshaw's vicious cycle - Answers What is the number one cause for infant mortality in the
shanty towns?
- Comes in the form of prostitution, agrarian workers, etc.
- Debt Bondage
- Example of Girl in Brazil- 15 year old sold into sex slavery at 10 years old and rented out at 12
and many more times until released at 15, but went into prostitution with pimps after that
- Sexual Tourism - Answers Describe the New Slavery:
27 million - Answers As of 2010, how many slaves were there in the world today?
Disease - Answers What is never Random, but always patterned?
1. Environmental
2. Demographic
Ethnomedicine - Answers What is information that pertains to theories of disease and forms of
therapy specific to a given culture?
Human universals - Answers Sickness and diseases are what?
Trephination - Answers What is a type of therapy where surgery is preformed by cutting a small
hole into the skull in circular shape and removing part of the skull?
to let something out, such as an evil spirit, demon, or even pressure - Answers What did
indigenous people believe that trephination was for?
Too much complex knowledge to have happened at random or at chance, the scientific method
must have been used - Answers How were medicinal plants discovered?
medicinal plants - Answers What were often strong alkaloids?
oxytoxic - Answers What is an agent used to induce contraction during labor that is found in
Avocado and Papaya plants?
zoonose - Answers What is an infectious disease spread by animals that can naturally be
transmitted to humans that is high virulence and unrecognizable?
China - Answers Where was a zoonose originated?
Koryak shaman - Answers Who gave patients Amanita muscaria (hallucinogenic mushrooms),
then drank the patient's urine, and then hallucinates and has visions of the cure for that patient?
Siberia - Answers Where are the Koryak people from?
Amanita muscaria - Answers What is an hallucinogenic mushroom used by the Koryaks for cure
and recreational purposes?
By watching animal behavior (reindeer love the mushrooms and drink each other's urine) -
Answers How did the Koryak people discover drinking the urine of those who ate the
mushrooms would get you high?
Probably from reindeers getting high after eating mushrooms and jumping/ hopping around -
Answers What is probably the origin of the idea that reindeers can fly?
- In traditional societies, it is believed there is a finite amount of "good" to go around.
- In other words the amount of land, money, etc. available is held to be finite, so every time one
person profits, another one loses. - Answers What is the concept of the Limited Good?
The World's Have-Not's (rural and urban poor) - Answers What is an off-shoot, or product of
state level societies and market economies?
,-high infant mortality rates
-poor health and nutrition
-little or no autonomy
-unequal distribution of income - Answers Describe the world's have-nots:
50% - Answers What percent of the world's population is a part of the world's have-nots?
30% - Answers What percent of the world lives on a dollar a day or less? (extreme poverty)
40-42 years old - Answers What is the average life expectancy for those living in extreme
poverty?
- geography
- Lack of land/resources
- climate
- Only recently oil, metals, construction metals, etc have become crucial for the development of
countries
- history of colonization
-rural to urban migration
-cultural lag - Answers What are the reasons for underdevelopment?
many times, the base of which many indigenous countries could have started their wealth was
stolen and their resources were often stripped by dominating countries - Answers What is the
history of colonization?
70% - Answers In 1914, what percent of the world's population lived in colonies?
5 times - Answers In the US, the richest 10% earns how much more than the poorest 40%?
28 times - Answers In Brazil the richest 10% made how much more than the poorest 40%?
agrarian family ideals
-people from rural areas bring their agrarian ideals when they migrate to urban areas (such as
having lots and lots of children) which causes extremely crowded shanty towns and disease -
Answers What is an example of rural to urban migration and the cultural gap?
Penny Capitalism
, - Indigenous economies in which there is land tenure over tiny plots of land, where farmers
produce crop surplus and engage in small-scale trading. - Answers What is desperate Supply &
Selective Demand?
-Guatemalan peasants
-minimum salaries
-selling of wares
-international companies and cheap labor - Answers What are examples of penny capitalism?
- Poor Public Hygiene
- Scrimshaw's Vicious Cycle:
- Epidemics: AIDS, tropical diseases
- Lack of Adequate Medical Care
- Infant Feeding Practices - Answers What are the health Conditions like in the world's have-nots?
They tend to not breastfeed and formula is expensive, mixing dirty water with the powder
introduces bacteria and parasites - Answers Why are the infant feeding practices with the
world's have-nots so bad?
> Malnutrition > Intestinal Parasites > Diarrhea > Weakening of the Immune System > Infectious
Diseases > - Answers What is scrimshaw's vicious cycle?
Scrimshaw's vicious cycle - Answers What is the number one cause for infant mortality in the
shanty towns?
- Comes in the form of prostitution, agrarian workers, etc.
- Debt Bondage
- Example of Girl in Brazil- 15 year old sold into sex slavery at 10 years old and rented out at 12
and many more times until released at 15, but went into prostitution with pimps after that
- Sexual Tourism - Answers Describe the New Slavery:
27 million - Answers As of 2010, how many slaves were there in the world today?
Disease - Answers What is never Random, but always patterned?
1. Environmental
2. Demographic
