Question 1

What was the postwar baby boom of the late 1940s and 1950s responsible for?

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A) It fueled the general expansion of the American educational system, including academic anthropology. 
B) It promoted renewed interest in applied anthropology during the 1950s and 1960s. 
C) It brought anthropology into most high school curricula. 
D) It produced a new interest in ethnic diversity. 
E) It brought an end to the world system.

Question 2

Anthropology may help the progress of education by enabling educators to avoid all of the following except

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A) indiscriminate assignment of nonnative speakers of English to the same classrooms as children with "behavior problems." 
B) tolerance of ethnic diversity. 
C) incorrect application of labels (e.g., "learning impaired"). 
D) sociolinguistic discrimination. 
E) ethnic stereotyping.

Question 3

What does it mean to say that an economic development project is culturally compatible? What are the advantages of ensuring that projects are culturally compatible?

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Question 4

Discuss the reasons why many anthropologists have turned from academic to applied work.

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Question 5

Businesses are no longer interested in hiring applied anthropologists now that the majority of goods are bought and sold over the Internet.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

How might a premedical student apply some of the knowledge learned in anthropology courses as a physician?

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Question 7

Discuss ways in which anthropology is relevant to business.

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Question 8

What is a disease?

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A) A health problem as it is experienced by the affected individual 
B) An artificial product of biomedicine 
C) A consequence of foraging 
D) An unnatural state of health 
E) A scientifically identified health threat

Question 9

In a comparative study of sixty-eight development projects, Kottak determined that

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A) overinnovation was the most productive development model. 
B) culturally compatible projects were twice as successful as incompatible ones. 
C) the socialist bloc model was the most successful. 
D) the capitalist bloc model was the most financially successful. 
E) the underdifferentiated model led to the most equity.

Question 10

What is an illness?

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A) A nonexistent ailment (only "diseases" are real) 
B) An artificial product of biomedicine 
C) A scientifically identified health threat 
D) A purely linguistic problem 
E) A health problem as it is experienced by the affected individual

Question 11

In his comparison of rural and urban communities, Redfield found that cultural innovations spread from urban areas to rural ones.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

All development projects should aim to accomplish all of the following except

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A) to promote change, but not overinnovation. 
B) to preserve local systems, while working to make them better. 
C) to respect local traditions. 
D) to base models of development on indigenous practices and social forms. 
E) to develop strategies with little input from local communities.

Question 13

The example of postcolonial development in Madagascar demonstrates that descent group organization can be a major obstacle to economic development.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Which of the following statements about applied anthropology is not true?

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A) One of the most valuable tools in applying anthropology is the ethnographic method. 
B) Many applied anthropologists have worked with development agencies such as the World Bank and USAID. 
C) The application of anthropology to social problems has been a central concern in the discipline since its origin. 
D) Applied anthropology is a recently developed subfield within anthropology and reflects an entirely new concern with the application of anthropology to social problems. 
E) Forensic anthropologists work with the police, medical examiners, and courts to identify victims of crimes.

Question 15

What kind of disease theory underlies traditional understandings of susto?

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A) Personalistic 
B) Naturalistic 
C) Biomedical 
D) Emotionalistic 
E) Tribal

Question 16

Cultural resource management (CRM) refers to the efforts of peripheral nations to develop tourism focused on their cultural heritage, past and present.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Which of the following should not be one of the goals of an applied anthropological approach to urban programs?

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A) Work with the community to ensure that the change is implemented correctly 
B) Identify key social groups in the urban context 
C) Translate the needs and desires of the community to funding agencies 
D) Create a single universal policy to be applied to all urban communities 
E) Elicit wishes from the target community

Question 18

There is considerable debate today over whether governments should or should not require schools to provide bilingual education for students, and if so, how this could best be accomplished.Pretend you are an anthropologist that a school board in a bilingual community has asked to provide some guidance on this issue.What might you tell the school board about the relationships between students' social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds and their potential for success in school?

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Question 19

Human societies are becoming increasingly urban.What are (or will be) some of the effects of increased urbanization? Where are these effects most pronounced? What contributions can applied anthropologists make to urban planning?

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Question 20

The use of anthropological findings, concepts, and methods to accomplish a desired end is known as

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A) applied anthropology. 
B) economic anthropology. 
C) conceptual anthropology. 
D) sociobiology. 
E) participant observation.

Exam 12: The World System and Colonialism

What was the postwar baby boom of the late 1940s and 1950s responsible for?

Anthropology may help the progress of education by enabling educators to avoid all of the following except

What does it mean to say that an economic development project is culturally compatible? What are the advantages of ensuring that projects are culturally compatible?

Discuss the reasons why many anthropologists have turned from academic to applied work.

Businesses are no longer interested in hiring applied anthropologists now that the majority of goods are bought and sold over the Internet.

How might a premedical student apply some of the knowledge learned in anthropology courses as a physician?

Discuss ways in which anthropology is relevant to business.

What is a disease?

In a comparative study of sixty-eight development projects, Kottak determined that

What is an illness?

In his comparison of rural and urban communities, Redfield found that cultural innovations spread from urban areas to rural ones.

All development projects should aim to accomplish all of the following except

The example of postcolonial development in Madagascar demonstrates that descent group organization can be a major obstacle to economic development.

Which of the following statements about applied anthropology is not true?

What kind of disease theory underlies traditional understandings of susto?

Cultural resource management (CRM) refers to the efforts of peripheral nations to develop tourism focused on their cultural heritage, past and present.

Which of the following should not be one of the goals of an applied anthropological approach to urban programs?

Human societies are becoming increasingly urban.What are (or will be) some of the effects of increased urbanization? Where are these effects most pronounced? What contributions can applied anthropologists make to urban planning?

The use of anthropological findings, concepts, and methods to accomplish a desired end is known as