ANP201 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Western assumptions that men are
superior to women are usually based on all of the following EXCEPT:
a) biology
b) the role of women in reproduction
c) a negative view on menstruation and
menopause
d) the inability of women to work as hard as men - ANSWER D
What important fact, ignored by Morton, skewered the reliability of his claims about
race, skulls, and brain size according to Stephen Jay Gould?
a) Morton properly randomized his sample
of skulls
b) Morton never actually measured skulls
c) Morton overlooked the fact that the size of
the brain is
associated with body size, and that male skulls
are, on average, larger than female skulls
d) Morton overlooked the fact that individuals
with more diverse diets tend to have both
larger bodies and skulls, hence brains - ANSWER C
A relativist stance presupposes that gender
specific violence such as that in the film:
"Half the Sky: can be be understood:
, a) by going there and filming what is
happening
b) in relation to other cultures with similar
beliefs and behaviors
c) in relation to the cultural and historical
systems of meaning in which it is
embedded
d) by analyzing what is wrong in the
situation - ANSWER C
ethnocentric fallacy - ANSWER idea that our beliefs and behaviors are right and true,
whereas those of others are wrong or misguided
relativism - ANSWER no behavior or belief can be judged to be odd or wrong simply
because it is different from our own
ethnography - ANSWER the written results of field work
ethnographic method - ANSWER immersion of anthropologist in lives of people they are
trying to understand
cultural text collection of symbols or words that carries meaning and can be strung
together to make larger meaning
Rosaldo headhunters rage; ways of coping with anger or grief; finding balance
Theory: 19th Century Evolutionism "science of society" ex. arm chair speculation.; E.B.
Tylor: origin of religion came when people wanted to explain difference between
dreams/awake. Critique: ethnocentrism/bias, descriptions used as explanations of
transformations
Western assumptions that men are
superior to women are usually based on all of the following EXCEPT:
a) biology
b) the role of women in reproduction
c) a negative view on menstruation and
menopause
d) the inability of women to work as hard as men - ANSWER D
What important fact, ignored by Morton, skewered the reliability of his claims about
race, skulls, and brain size according to Stephen Jay Gould?
a) Morton properly randomized his sample
of skulls
b) Morton never actually measured skulls
c) Morton overlooked the fact that the size of
the brain is
associated with body size, and that male skulls
are, on average, larger than female skulls
d) Morton overlooked the fact that individuals
with more diverse diets tend to have both
larger bodies and skulls, hence brains - ANSWER C
A relativist stance presupposes that gender
specific violence such as that in the film:
"Half the Sky: can be be understood:
, a) by going there and filming what is
happening
b) in relation to other cultures with similar
beliefs and behaviors
c) in relation to the cultural and historical
systems of meaning in which it is
embedded
d) by analyzing what is wrong in the
situation - ANSWER C
ethnocentric fallacy - ANSWER idea that our beliefs and behaviors are right and true,
whereas those of others are wrong or misguided
relativism - ANSWER no behavior or belief can be judged to be odd or wrong simply
because it is different from our own
ethnography - ANSWER the written results of field work
ethnographic method - ANSWER immersion of anthropologist in lives of people they are
trying to understand
cultural text collection of symbols or words that carries meaning and can be strung
together to make larger meaning
Rosaldo headhunters rage; ways of coping with anger or grief; finding balance
Theory: 19th Century Evolutionism "science of society" ex. arm chair speculation.; E.B.
Tylor: origin of religion came when people wanted to explain difference between
dreams/awake. Critique: ethnocentrism/bias, descriptions used as explanations of
transformations
