Deck 10: Using and Doing Anthropology

Question 1

From the research Patten's team conducted,they learned that

A) women in the villages headed 50 percent of all households.
B) each household had an adult male regularly living with them.
C) over 35 percent of the children were underweight for their age.
D) 20 percent of the women were illiterate.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that the UDLP project to teach women how to raise and care for goats,and to incorporate milk into their children's food,was

A) flatly rejected by the village leaders.
B) so popular that it quickly had more participants than it could accommodate.
C) too difficult for the women of the villages to undertake.
D) failed due to the theft of goats by people in other villages.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In action anthropology,planned change is initiated,controlled,and implemented by

A) administrators
B) the people affected by change
C) the anthropologist
D) outside observers

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The process of change due to culture contact is called

A) diffusion.
B) borrowing.
C) acculturation.
D) enculturation.

Question 5

Based on Alverson's report in "Advice for Developers," which one of the following statements about Peace Corps volunteers is true-

A) They easily recognize Tswana class and age distinctions.
B) They are often able to make up a good lie rather than tell the truth.
C) They like their privacy and resent it when the Tswana interrupt their tranquility.
D) They are offended by the usual candor of Tswana speech.

Question 6

Any use of anthropological knowledge to influence social interaction,to maintain or change social institutions,or to direct the course of cultural change is called

A) applied anthropology.
B) adjustment anthropology.
C) advocate anthropology.
D) administrative anthropology.

Question 7

Alverson has seen the Tswana's belief that being alone is

A) a time to think.
B) a way to experience a religious experience.
C) a necessary part of resting.
D) a time for secrets.

Question 8

Any use of anthropological knowledge by anthropologists to increase the power of self- determination of a particular cultural group is called

A) action anthropology.
B) academic anthropology.
C) advocate anthropology.
D) adjustment anthropology.

Question 9

According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," how do Peace Corps volunteers see themselves-

A) They see themselves as students, there to learn from the Tswana about how to change their American ways.
B) They see themselves are experts, there to teach the less fortunate.
C) They know that the Tswana do not want them in Botswana, but feel that they know better than the Tswana was is good for their community.
D) They don't want to impart Western ideas in their work with the Tswana.

Question 10

According to Patten in "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," the UDLP planned to provide

A) village elders with goats to collectively raise and milk for the all of the village's children.
B) the male head of household a milk-producing goat to raise and use for the nutritional needs of his entire family.
C) the male head of household a goat to raise and slaughter for meat.
D) the woman of each household with a milk-producing goat to raise and use for her children's nutritional needs.

Question 11

In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that some villages were not good candidates for the social research project due to

A) a language barrier between the anthropologists and the villagers.
B) an ongoing problem of animal theft.
C) the elders' resistance to the plan.
D) the resistance of women head-of-households in those villages.

Question 12

According to Patten in "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," the "hungry season," the time between the consumption of the last of the stored harvest and the first harvest of the new season,now often begins in _________ and ends in __________.

A) June; November
B) December; March
C) September; March
D) March; September

Question 13

According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," Tswana see greeting others as

A) a waste of time.
B) a way to be polite.
C) a strategy to avoid work.
D) an essential act and time to exchange news.

Question 14

In Alverson's estimation,which statement best describes the Tswana-

A) The Tswana do not value friendships based on trust and honesty.
B) The Tswana believe that privacy is important part of daily life.
C) The Tswana value truth and honesty above all.
D) The Tswana feel that work comes before hospitality and socializing.

Question 15

In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that in Malawi culture,goats have traditionally been seen as

A) walking bank accounts.
B) animals bred solely for milk production.
C) animals that don't provide enough in resources to warrant raising them.
D) nuisance animals that eat the crops grown by villagers.

Question 16

Which of the following authors is an extreme diffusionist-

A) Erich von Däniken
B) W. Lloyd Warner
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Sigmund Freud

Question 17

The meeting of two culturally distinct groups is called

A) diffusion.
B) acculturation.
C) social contact.
D) cultural contact.

Question 18

A recombination of things that are known into something different is called

A) culture change.
B) innovation.
C) social integration.
D) diffusion.

Question 19

In "Advice for Developers," Alverson observes that the Tswana see time as

A) lineal.
B) connected to events. Time happens when events happen.
C) a non-concept. The Tswana do not think in terms of time.
D) measured by a cycle of ritual occasions.

Question 20

Any use of anthropological knowledge that makes social interaction more predictable among persons having different cultural codes is called

A) academic anthropology.
B) action anthropology.
C) administrative anthropology.
D) adjustment anthropology.

Question 21

The purpose of public interest ethnography,in Stryker's analysis in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," is to

A) study the motivations of policy makers.
B) assess the costs associated with a policy.
C) assess a policy from the perspective of those affected by it.
D) discover inconsistencies in a policy.

Question 22

According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," an anthropologist was hired to find out why customers of a utility company failed to reduce energy consumption,despite their claims that they were trying to conserve.He discovered that

A) customers were lying.
B) thermostats were faulty.
C) meters were faulty.
D) fathers turned down thermostats, other family members turned them up.

Question 23

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest,"

A) overcrowding was not a problem at the prisons she studied.
B) women were very well paid for the work they did in the prison.
C) women sometimes faked illness to get faster medical attention.
D) women had equal and unfettered access to adequate medical care.

Question 24

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," in order to receive medical treatment,female inmates in the California prison system had to

A) file a $10 copay form.
B) always see an MTA first.
C) always see a nurse practitioner first.
D) receive a ducat.

Question 25

In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that by 2004,

A) one third of the women still had their original project animal.
B) half of the women had lost their original animals to theft.
C) only one woman had sold her animal before it had produced a viable kid.
D) village elders had taken control of all of the buck stations and had begun charging for its services.

Question 26

McCurdy claims in "Using Anthropology" that in many companies,newly installed managers tend to

A) listen to their employees' suggestions.
B) ask employees to teach them the new job.
C) leave their employees alone.
D) impose a new agenda on their employees.

Question 27

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," the prison position of MTA was held by a

A) nurse practitioner.
B) medically trained guard.
C) medical appointment secretary.
D) designated prison doctor.

Question 28

The manager at UTC spent time learning the warehouse system as an insider views it,and discovered that inaccurate warehouse inventory numbers resulted from

A) employees throwing away materials.
B) a problem with software that tracked inventory.
C) pressures on employees to work fast, preventing them from accurately counting and recording what was shipped.
D) employee theft.

Question 29

In "Ethnography in the Public Interest," Stryker's study determined that

A) there are adequate translation services in the prisons studied.
B) the number of MTA positions should be increased.
C) overcrowding had no impact on prisoners' access to health care.
D) the MTA position should be eliminated.

Question 30

In "Using Anthropology," McCurdy argues that is an important skill that people who study anthropology can take into daily life.

A) ethnography
B) knowledge of particular cultures
C) the ability to conduct survey research
D) knowledge of cross-cultural economics

Question 31

According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," the first thing a new manager at UTC did after assuming a new position was to

A) shrink-wrap books in the warehouse.
B) ask warehouse workers, customer outlet staff, and other employees about problems and procedures.
C) ask previous warehouse managers for advice.
D) change the counting and shipping procedures in the warehouse.

Question 32

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," the state asked the ethnographic project she directed to assess

A) how women access health care in prison.
B) the effects of overcrowding.
C) whether the position of MTA should be abolished.
D) how much female inmates should be paid for their work.