Exam 15: Materiality: Constructing Social Relationships and Meanings With Things

A key way that objects are used to manipulate people comes through which of the following?

Which of the following groups is a prominent American Indian rights group founded in 1968?

The objects in a college student's dorm room have great personal meaning for the student but may mean something entirely different to everyone else in the dormitory.

Consider any object belonging to your roommate or someone down the hall from your dorm room. Explain how this object has several dimensions and how these dimensions would help you understand your subject's outlook, goals, aspirations, and identity in the world.

People's fascination with having the newest Nike shoes or iPhone is an example of which of the following anthropological concepts?

On the north coast of Papua New Guinea, a religious cult leader name Barjani was remembered through which object?

When objects begin to take on mystical powers and engender obsessive desire and worship it is called

Archaeologists find it easiest to study changing styles and fashions through which of the following classes of object?

When workers make only part of an object rather than the whole product, they have less of a relationship with the fruits of their labor. Karl Marx suggested that this changed relationship with the objects they were producing created a feeling of

Most African masks were

Which term refers to the cultural perspectives and social processes that shape and are shaped by how goods and services are bought, sold, and used in contemporary capitalism?

The earliest engagement anthropologists had with material culture happened where?

For a society to have a separate occupational category of artist, it needs to have which of the following characteristics?

What difference has it made in the kinds of questions anthropologists ask about objects when the discipline stopped thinking of museum collections as being simply evidence of how simple societies interacted with their physical and social environment and began asking how did these particular objects come to be in the museum in the first place?

Repatriation refers to:

To illustrate the dimensions that all objects possess, the textbook discusses a "shiny new bicycle." Why is this example useful to illustrate dimensionality?