Question 1

Religious proselytizing has little effect on indigenous beliefs and practices.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 2

What does it mean for people to live mulitlocally?

Accepted Answer

A)  Migrants maintain ties with their native lands through phoning, e-mailing, visiting, sending money, and watching ethnic TV.
B)  Individuals from warm climates move north to work during the summer, but move home in the winter.
C)  The indigenous people of a colonized country maintain their own customs while assimilating to the dominant culture.
D)  Families split and live in two different countries to gain the benefits of both.
E)  Offspring live in multiple countries. A

Question 3

Which of the following statements about Sudan is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  While nearly all Sudanese practice tribal religions, a small minority has adopted Christianity.
B)  Its indigenous peoples, such as the Kayapó, have suffered greatly as a result of unregulated deforestation.
C)  Its government declared the country would be Muslim, seeking to extend Islam and the Arabic language into the largely Christian south.
D)  It is characterized by little ethnic or religious diversity.
E)  It was the first society to develop cargo cults. C

Question 4

What are some of the arguments for and against the interpretation of mass media as forms of cultural imperialism?

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

In what area of public policy is autochthony most likely to play a role?

Accepted Answer

A)  Urban planning
B)  Mass media
C)  Finance
D)  Health care reform
E)  Immigration policies

Question 6

Given the mobility of people today, anthropologists increasingly are shifting their attention from local communities to

Accepted Answer

A)  texts.
B)  hegemonies.
C)  postsocialist societies.
D)  public transcripts.
E)  diasporas.

Question 7

Discuss some examples of how religion has been used around the world and throughout history as a means of domination.

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

An ethnoecology is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptions.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Mass media can play an important role in constructing and maintaining national and ethnic identities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

What group has worked within the United Nations to support indigenous rights?

Accepted Answer

A)  Working Group on Indigenous Populations
B)  International Union for Indigenous Rights
C)  Supporters of Indigenous Peoples of Postsoviet Countries
D)  Intergovernmental Panel on Indigenous Rights
E)  United States Corps of Engineers

Question 11

Acculturation refers to changes that occur when groups come into direct and continuous contact.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Deforestation is more likely to occur in a food producing society than a foraging culture.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which of the following does not describe indigenous identities?

Accepted Answer

A)  They emerge through a specific process.
B)  They are fixed.
C)  They are ways of being someone or something in particular times and places.
D)  They are potentially plural.
E)  They can be fluid or competing.

Question 14

Why have many Arembepeiros begun to resent their own local Saint Francis festival?

Accepted Answer

A)  It does not receive the regional support that Carnival draws.
B)  It has become an outsider's event, drawing thousands of tourists.
C)  It does not get national television time.
D)  Other Brazilians look down on it as a backward festival.
E)  It celebrates the Portuguese discovery of Brazil.

Question 15

What term refers to the blurring and breakdown of established canons (rules, standards), categories, distinctions, and boundaries?

Accepted Answer

A)  Chaos
B)  Entropy
C)  Postmodern
D)  Agoraphobia
E)  Diaspora

Question 16

Why does the village of Newtok in Alaska need to be moved?

Accepted Answer

A)  The village is mobile because the residents are mobile foragers.
B)  United States corporations want to develop the land.
C)  It is sinking, flooding, and eroding due to climate change.
D)  It has become a tourist location and the residents are tired of strangers in their village.
E)  The residents have destroyed the land through intensive agriculture techniques.

Question 17

Which of the following reasons for changing behavior would be most likely to convince an indigenous people to help prevent deforestation?

Accepted Answer

A)  Saving global biodiversity
B)  Slowing global warming
C)  It is good for the globe
D)  Preventing erosion in farmland
E)  Helping the government secure a place in the European Union

Question 18

The Earth's climate has always remained constant, so any changes must be human driven.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What are the causes of the problems in Newtok, Alaska?

Accepted Answer

A)  Global warming and deforestation
B)  Extinction of local animal and plant species
C)  Deforestation and intensive agriculture
D)  Climate change and reconciling local culture with outside world expectations
E)  Oil exploitation and local culture

Question 20

Television has recently been used by local communities to preserve, revive, and intensify the scale of traditional ceremonies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 13: Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Religious proselytizing has little effect on indigenous beliefs and practices.

What does it mean for people to live mulitlocally?

Which of the following statements about Sudan is true?

What are some of the arguments for and against the interpretation of mass media as forms of cultural imperialism?

In what area of public policy is autochthony most likely to play a role?

Given the mobility of people today, anthropologists increasingly are shifting their attention from local communities to

Discuss some examples of how religion has been used around the world and throughout history as a means of domination.

An ethnoecology is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptions.

Mass media can play an important role in constructing and maintaining national and ethnic identities.

What group has worked within the United Nations to support indigenous rights?

Acculturation refers to changes that occur when groups come into direct and continuous contact.

Deforestation is more likely to occur in a food producing society than a foraging culture.

Which of the following does not describe indigenous identities?

Why have many Arembepeiros begun to resent their own local Saint Francis festival?

What term refers to the blurring and breakdown of established canons (rules, standards) , categories, distinctions, and boundaries?

Why does the village of Newtok in Alaska need to be moved?

Which of the following reasons for changing behavior would be most likely to convince an indigenous people to help prevent deforestation?

The Earth's climate has always remained constant, so any changes must be human driven.

What are the causes of the problems in Newtok, Alaska?

Television has recently been used by local communities to preserve, revive, and intensify the scale of traditional ceremonies.