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ANT300
Quiz 7 & 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The “man-the-hunter” theoretical scenarios… | ALL OF THE ABOVE: closely resemble 1950s U.S. models of family and gender |
| were challenged by fossil evidence and ethnographic data from contemporary foragers revealing that gathered foods constituted the bulk of such diets related to the hunting way of life, | |
| do not traditionally take into account that early human hunting activities were opportunistic and involved significant scavenging | |
| The work of urban anthropologist John Hartigan shows that ___ has played a major role in shaping strikingly different identities among “white” residents in Detroit and | social class |
| how, accordingly, social relations between “whites” and “blacks” in the neighborhoods vary from camaraderie and companionship to conflict. | |
| Anthropological studies of gender, women’s studies, and gender studies incorporate studies of… | ALL OF THE ABOVE: women and other genders, issues of gender and social justice, sexuality |
| Significant genetic studies conducted by physical anthropologists since the 1970s have revealed that _____ human races do not exist. | biologically distinct |
| The “sperm penetrates egg” model of human fertilization… | does not include the medical reality that the egg and sperm fuse and that the egg activates the sperm by releasing molecules that are crucial for it to find and adhere to the egg. |
| Women face particular challenges when conducting anthropological fieldwork regardless of the culture, but particularly in ____ and ____ societies. | sex-segregated, patriarchal |
| Social characteristics such as ____ can influence how an anthropologist engages in fieldwork. | ALL OF THE ABOVE: gender and sexuality, race and class, religion and religious background |
| Any effort to classify human populations into racial categories is inherently ____ rather than ____. | arbitrary and subjective; scientific and objective |
| What is a racial classification system in which a person of mixed racial heritage is automatically categorized as a member of the less or least privileged group? | ALL OF THE ABOVE: hypodescent, the one-drop rule, socially constructed |
| What are legitimizing ideologies? | A set of complex belief systems, often developed by those in power, to rationalize, explain, and perpetuate systems of inequality. |