Cultural Anthropology
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| show | dialects
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| show | Deductive
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| show | the studied culture.
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| Through the process of ------- , we learn to become members of our group both directly, through instruction from our parents and peers, and indirectly by observing and imitating those around us. | show 🗑
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| What is ethnography? | show 🗑
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| Active participant-observation is… | show 🗑
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| show | Proxemics
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| What is the study of how meaning is conveyed at the word and phrase level? | show 🗑
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| Like other disciplines that use comparative approaches, such as sociology or psychology, anthropologists make comparisons between people in a given society, but unlike other disciplines, anthropologists also… | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is not a characteristic of applied anthropology? | show 🗑
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| What do anthropologists call a form of violence in which a social structure or institution harms people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs? | show 🗑
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| show | 12,000
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| What is a commodity chain? | show 🗑
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| show | The largest single group of people on the planet today
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| show | boil water
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| show | Any good that is produced for sale or exchange for other goods.
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| show | The subsistence system
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| Today, anthropologists recognize that _____, far from being primitive, is one of the most effective and dynamic subsistence systems humans have ever developed, though Marshal Sahlins’ conception of the original “affluent society” is overly romantic | show 🗑
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| Mono-cropping is a feature of industrial food production and has the benefit of producing staple foods like wheat and corn in vast quantities, but it also makes our diet less _____. | show 🗑
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| show | the work associated with obtaining food for a family or household.
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| show | caste
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| _____ can be useful when completing anthropological field research and are particularly helpful when documenting changes in families over time. | show 🗑
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| What is the name for the division of society into groups based on wealth and status? | show 🗑
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| show | Unilineal descent systems
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| Tribes are ___ societies. | show 🗑
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| Societies that have not developed a state have lasted about ______________ than societies that became states. | show 🗑
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| show | marriages in which there is one wife and multiple husbands.
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| show | patrilocal residence
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| show | exogamy
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| The position of a chief in a chiefdom is… | show 🗑
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| Social characteristics such as ____ can influence how an anthropologist engages in fieldwork. | show 🗑
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| show | People in a society who claim a distinct identity for themselves based on shared cultural characteristics and a shared ancestry that are believed to give its members a unique sense of peoplehood or heritage
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| show | 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.
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| 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? | show 🗑
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| What is gender ideology? | show 🗑
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| 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 how, accordingly, social relations between “whites” and “blacks” in the neighborhoods v | show 🗑
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| Since World War II, important research by anthropologists has revealed that racial categories are _________ defined concepts and that racial labels and their definitions vary widely around the world | show 🗑
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| show | racial formation
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| show | A gender identity that exists in non-binary gender systems offering one or more gender roles separate from male or female.
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| To study supernatural beliefs, anthropologists must cultivate a perspective of ____ and strive to understand beliefs from ___ or insider’s perspective | show 🗑
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| What are sacred objects or ideas? | show 🗑
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| The 5 “Scapes” of Globalization are… | show 🗑
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| The concept of “lifestyle,” from an anthropological perspective, refers to… | show 🗑
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| show | Practices intended to bring supernatural forces under one’s personal control
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| show | play a significant role in structuring community life , play a significant role in providing rules or guidelines for human behavior, play a significant role in bonding members of a community to one another
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| A ___ is a person who claims to have direct communication with the supernatural realm and who can communicate divine messages to others. | show 🗑
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| show | the flow of ideas
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| show | the flow of people across boundaries
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| Globalization is… | show 🗑
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| show | Sustainable development
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| show | Awareness of how one’s own position and perspective impact what is observed and how it is evaluated.
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| ____ are anthropological approaches helping researchers think about, for example, the role of bacteria in human evolution and cultural development, and remind us that diseases, parasites, and symbiotic gut bacteria that allow us to eat certain kinds of fo | show 🗑
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| What is another name for an ethnographic approach in which anthropologists include non-human species as active participants in a society or culture and study their influence and actions? | show 🗑
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| show | park guards, tour guides, research assistants
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| What is cultural ecology? | show 🗑
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| show | Settings, situations, and symbols that convey multiple meanings.
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| show | Exurban
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| In anthropological terms, a performance can be… | show 🗑
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| show | They offer layered information about how to interpret the ensuing message, and they include codes, figurative language, parallelisms, paralinguistic features, and appeals to tradition.
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| show | push the boundaries of what counts as ethnographic research and academic writing.
b. rely on deep relationships with people.
c. rely on holistic consideration of the full range of media practices from around the world.
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| ___ of the human population lies in an urban environment where infectious diseases can spread rapidly, sparking pandemics. | show 🗑
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| What is fabrication, used in media anthropology? | show 🗑
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| show | a. An anthropological perspective describing the interactions between biology and culture that have influenced human evolution and emphasizing that human lifestyles are products of interactions between biology and culture.
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| What is ethnomedicine? | show 🗑
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| show | media practices are not universal.
b. there is no universal way of consuming media.
c. media consumption is bound to culture
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| show | c. Media produced by and for indigenous communities often outside of the commercial mainstream.
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| show | A distinct sub-specialty within the discipline of anthropology.
b. An anthropological sub-specialty that investigates human health and health care systems in comparative perspectives.
c. An anthropological sub-specialty that considers a wide range
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| What is a placebo effect? | show 🗑
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| show | a. They view disease as the result of the active, purposeful intervention of an agent, who may be human, nonhuman, or supernatural.
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