Question 1

There is considerable cross-cultural variation in the interpretation and treatment of illnesses.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What are some of the things that applied anthropologists in each of the four subdisciplines do? What types of settings do they work in, with whom do they collaborate, and on what issues do they focus?

Accepted Answer

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Question 3

An illness is a scientifically identified health threat caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, or other pathogen.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

What kind of disease theory would attribute a person's illness to the consumption of hot or cold substances under the wrong conditions?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

Where are most anthropologists employed today?

Accepted Answer

A) The business sector 
B) International organizations 
C) Universities and colleges 
D) Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) 
E) Government

Question 6

Non-Western medicine does not maintain a sharp distinction between biological and psychological illnesses.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

What is the relationship between theory and practice in anthropology? Do you agree that applied anthropology should be recognized as a separate subdiscipline? How is it different from the traditional subfields of anthropology?

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

The original marketing strategy of McDonald's in Brazil

Accepted Answer

A) promoted a beer with lunch. 
B) completely changed the menu to include Brazilian favorites. 
C) tried to Americanize Brazilian eating habits. 
D) took into consideration the Brazilian habit of eating hot foods, like hamburgers, on the beach. 
E) focused on the Sunday evening dinner market.

Question 9

What is a common goal of development projects?

Accepted Answer

A) To increase socioeconomic stratification 
B) To promote ethnocide 
C) To facilitate cultural assimilation 
D) To decrease local autonomy 
E) To increase equity

Question 10

What did Robert Redfield argue regarding the relations between urban and rural communities?

Accepted Answer

A) Peasants were culturally isolated from cities. 
B) Cities were centers from which cultural innovations were spread to rural and tribal areas. 
C) Kin-based ethnic associations only exist in rural areas. 
D) There are so many connections between rural and urban areas that it is not useful to distinguish between them. 
E) Urban centers have more in common with each other, even across national boundaries, than they do with rural areas in the same country.

Question 11

Discuss the major advantages and disadvantages of scientific medicine and other health care systems (be careful to distinguish between scientific medicine and Western medicine per se).

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

The Malagasy development program illustrates the importance of

Accepted Answer

A) the local government's commitment to improving the lives of its citizens. 
B) replacing subsistence farming with a viable cash crop. 
C) replacing outdated traditional techniques of irrigation. 
D) breaking down corporate descent groups, which are too independent and interfere with development. 
E) the top-down strategies developed by the United Nations.

Question 13

Population growth and increasing urbanization are far more pronounced in the highly industrialized, wealthy nations of North America and Europe than they are in developing countries.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 12: The World System and Colonialism

There is considerable cross-cultural variation in the interpretation and treatment of illnesses.

What are some of the things that applied anthropologists in each of the four subdisciplines do? What types of settings do they work in, with whom do they collaborate, and on what issues do they focus?

An illness is a scientifically identified health threat caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, or other pathogen.

What kind of disease theory would attribute a person's illness to the consumption of hot or cold substances under the wrong conditions?

Where are most anthropologists employed today?

Non-Western medicine does not maintain a sharp distinction between biological and psychological illnesses.

What is the relationship between theory and practice in anthropology? Do you agree that applied anthropology should be recognized as a separate subdiscipline? How is it different from the traditional subfields of anthropology?

The original marketing strategy of McDonald's in Brazil

What is a common goal of development projects?

What did Robert Redfield argue regarding the relations between urban and rural communities?

Discuss the major advantages and disadvantages of scientific medicine and other health care systems (be careful to distinguish between scientific medicine and Western medicine per se).

The Malagasy development program illustrates the importance of

Population growth and increasing urbanization are far more pronounced in the highly industrialized, wealthy nations of North America and Europe than they are in developing countries.