Question 1

The process of discovering and describing a particular culture is called

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ethnography

Question 2

According to Spradley in his article Ethnography and Culture, culture, itself, is a kind of

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knowledge

Question 3

Which one of the following is an observation that Sterk makes in “Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS” about “gatekeepers”? They

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are important in gaining initial access to a scene.

Question 4

Three of the following statements made by Sterk in “Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS” are true. Which one is not?

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Talking with informants in groups often inhibits ethnographic discovery

Question 5

In “Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS,” when Sterk first tried to make contact with prostitutes on the street, they

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largely ignored her.

Question 6

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

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innovation.

Question 7

The process of change due to culture contact is called

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acculturation.

Question 8

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

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adjustment anthropology.

Question 9

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

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connected to events. Time happens when events happen

Question 10

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

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a time for secrets.

Question 11

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

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so popular that it quickly had more participants than it could accommodate.

Question 12

In “Ethnography in the Public Interest,” one of the things Stryker’s study determined is that

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the MTA position should be eliminated.

Question 13

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

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how women access health care in prison.

Question 14

Minimal categories of speech sounds that serve to keep utterances apart are called

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phonemes.

Question 15

Hindi speakers hear which of the following two English phonemes as a single phoneme?

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/v/ and /w/

Question 16

In her article, “Shakespeare in the Bush,” Laura Bohannan shows that

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the story of Hamlet does not retain its original meaning when told to a Tiv audience.

Question 17

According to Bohannan, the Tiv approved of

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Hamlet’s mother’s hasty marriage to her dead husband’s brother.

Question 18

Anthropologists and sociologists argue that American racial groups are equivalent to
 		Indian__________ because racial identity is permanent and affects chances for acquisition 
		of prestige and economic success, and there are noticeable cultural diff

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castes

Question 19

According to Rogozen-Soltar in “Becoming Muslim in Europe,” the Spanish Inquisition was an effort to ensure a uniform religious and ethnic population in Spain. Over the course of several hundred years, __________ were forced to convert, or be killed or

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Muslims and Jews

Question 20

When the author first met María Martínez in 2006, she had married a Jordanian man and

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could not imagine a Spanish woman converting to Islam

Question 21

When the author returned to Spain in 2008, María Martínez

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had converted to Islam and was working with Muslims who were victims of religious discrimination

Question 22

According to Fish in “Mixed Blood,” the American conception of race

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is based on the racial identity of one’s parents

Question 23

According to Fish in “Mixed Blood,” the terms morena, loura, branca, and preta all refer to

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Brazilian names for different tipos (types).

Question 24

According to PBS interactive website RACE: The Power of an Illusion, ancient societies did not divide people according to physical differences, but according to religion, status, class, and ] language.

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True

Question 25

According to PBS interactive website RACE: The Power of an Illusion, not one characteristic, trait, or gene distinguishes all members of one so-called race from all members of another so-called race.

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True

Question 26

According to PBS interactive website RACE: The Power of an Illusion, human subspecies exist.

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False

Question 27

According to PBS interactive website RACE: The Power of an Illusion, race is not biological, but racism is still real.

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True

Question 28

According to PBS interactive website RACE: The Power of an Illusion, most variation is within not between “races.”

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True

Question 29

According to Karen Brodkin the Jews became white folks only through hard work and a focus on higher education.

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False

Question 30

According to Karen Brodkin the Jews became white folks in the post-war era, when Anti-semitism lost respectability and more Europeans, including Jews, were integrated into the fold of whiteness.

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True

Question 31

According to Karen Brodkin the Jews became white folks with the help of infrastructural shifts in housing and education, following the GI Bill.

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True

Question 32

According to Karen Brodkin the Jews became white folks with the help of booming post-war industry and a high employment demand for professionals.

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True

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