Exam 1: Culture

According to the text, what can we appropriately conclude from geneticists' finding that someone of African ancestry may have more in common biologically with someone of native Australian, Asian, or northern European descent than with a fellow African?

Which one of the rituals or ceremonies below is not used to mark a passage to a new status or stage of life?

A lobola gift to the bride's family makes children born to the woman become full members of her husband's descent group.

What effects did the advent of food production have on the roles and status of women?

Discuss ways in which kinship and descent help human populations adapt to their environments.

What kind of disease theory would acupuncture-a Chinese healing practice of inserting needles into the body to reduce pain and balance energies-exemplify?

Are reciprocity, redistribution, and the market principle mutually exclusive in any given society? Give examples, including contemporary North America in your answer.

What are the ethical obligations of anthropologists working in foreign countries?

Use of a signed form stating that a member of the community being studied consents to participate in the research follows from the ethical requirement that

Discuss the major differences between industrial and nonindustrial modes of production.

What is a "plural society"? According to Barth, what conditions contribute to the stability and endurance of ethnic boundaries?

Describe the different styles of ethnography that have occurred through time.

Contrast two of the following: (a) band leaders, (b) village heads, (c) big men, (d) chiefs. How do these political figures attain-and keep-their leadership positions? To what extent can they enforce their decisions? How permanent are their political roles?

The value of garbology to archaeologists is that it provides evidence of what people think they did or should have done.

Which of the following would not be an example of a sodality that members or your family or of groups that span several families or communities might belong to?

Discuss three ways religion may act as a form of social control. How do leaders mobilize communities and gain support for their policies? Consider the connections between religion and politics in states, both ancient and modern.

The feminization of poverty-the increasing representation of women and their children among America's poorest people-has occurred alongside gains that other American women have made in the economy.

What is hypodescent? Does it exist in every human society?

What are the different kinds of learning? On which kind of learning does culture depend?

What are the key structures of language? Why is it important to know and understand these features?