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Contemporary Anthropology 110 Dr. Adams IUP Final Review
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What is schistosoma?
A foot rash
An ear infection
A crappy Sean Penn movie
A parasitic disease
2
What is the U.S. gender system
Singular
Gender does not exist in the United States
Binary
Plural
3
What is taboo?
A movie?
Set apart as sacred and off limits to ordinary people
The best board game ever
Things baseball players can't do
4
What is a Morpheme?
The dictionary of a language; all words and their meanings
The smallest meaningful unit of sound
The smallest meaningful unit of language
The grammar of a language or the way words are put together
5
What is mana?
Ectoplasm
A kind of snake
A sacred force that inhabits objects/gives them luck
The marshmellow
6
What is a cognate?
A drain you put in your sink
A word that has a double meaning
A word that is similar in sound in a different language
A type of lithic
7
What is NOT an example of a rite of passage?
Frat Hazing
Baptism
Bachelor Party
Marriage
8
How long have humans been foragers?
97.5% of our history
17 weeks
99% of our history
68% of our history
9
How are call systems different from human language?
They are non-productive
They are not used by humans
Users of call systems can lie
They are not sounds
10
What is general reciprocity?
Someone gives another person and expects a future return
Capitalism
The movement of goods across the border
Immediate exchange of goods for an expected return
11
How often does a language disappear when the last speaker dies?
Every 5 years
Every 41 days
Every 7 seconds
Every 2 weeks
12
What is fictive kin?
Friends of the family who are viewed as part of it
Family members that have passes
Kin that does not exist
An indie rock duo
13
What was the status of people with alternative genders in pre-contact Native America?
Demi-gender
Transgender
Two-Spirit
Non-Binary
14
What is ethnicity?
Things that Obama has
The social ideas we assign to race
Race
A shared group of identity based on shared cultural elements
15
What is diaspora?
Imported coffee beans
Oli Sykes' solo project
Moving people back to their original homeland
Movement of people from their original homeland
16
What is magic?
Use of supernatural techniques to accomplish vague aims
Harry Potter shit
Use of supernatural techniques to accomplish specific aims
What Benedict Cumberbatch does with his acting
17
What is the definition of marriage?
A economically approved sexual and social union
A socially approved sexual and economic unit
The end of happiness
A socially disapproved sexual union
18
When is an infant considered a person in Navajo society?
When the infant poops for the first time
When the infant walks for the first time
When the infant speaks for the first time
When the infant laughs for the first time
19
What is hypodescent?
Assigning black ancestry to people of little black descent
Descent in the cold
Assigning white ancestry to people of black descent
Assigning Native American ancestry to white people
20
What is the ethnic Chinese culture that has no institution of marriage
Sodium
Knope
Na
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What is an extended family
When your uncle moves into the basement
When two or more nuclear families live in the same household
A family that lives for a very long time
When your brother moves in with his family
22
What is the difference between sex and gender?
There is no difference
Sex is cultural while gender is biological
Sex is biological while gender is cultural
Sex is in the sheets and gender is in the streets
23
What is underdifferentiation?
When you treat all the people and whatnot
When you put clinics everywhere
When you think a clinic in one place will treat everywhere
A techno band
24
What is a bride service?
A job description painted onto the bride
Gift of money from the bride's family to the groom's family
Gift of money from the groom's family to the bride's family
Requires the groom to work for the bride's family
25
What is codeswitching?
Using words of another language incorrectly
Switching your computer from IOS to Windows
Using more than one language in the course of conversation
Confusing tourists
26
Who has a higher social standing; witches, shamans, or sorcerers?
They all have the same social standing
Witches
Shamans
Sorcerers
27
What does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis argue?
That language was made by God
That language affects how we perceive and conceive reality
The language is a construct of the human mind
That languages change every day
28
Who is the best professor
Dr. Racchinni
Dr. Adams
Cristoph
Dr. Mannard
29
What is a lexicon?
The smallest meaningful unit of sound
The dictionary of a language; all words and their meanings
The smallest meaningful unit of language
The grammar of a language or the way words are put toghether
30
What is a bride price?
Gift of money from groom's family to bride's family
Gift of money from the bride's family to the groom's family
Requires the groom to work for the bride's family
A price tag stapled to the bride
31
When societies are ranked as savage, barbarian, or civilized, this reflects the theory of:
Everything
Progressive liberals
Progressivism
Evolution
32
What is ethnocentrism?
Viewing other cultures through the lens of your own
Viewing other cultures through the lens of a telescope
Viewing other cultures from the lens of their culture
A doom metal band
33
What is a syntax?
The dictionary of a language or all words and their meanings
The smallest meaningful unit of sound
The grammar of a language or the ways words are put together
The smallest meaningful unit of language
34
What is the divorce rate among arranged marriage couples?
99.7%
17.3%
4%
50%
35
What does kinesics study?
Communication by Verbal or Non-verbal means
Plants
Andrew Garfield's Face
Sign Language
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We examine morphology of the throat for evidence of when language use emerged
True
False
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What happens to a woman's status when kin groups are organized around them?
Their status does not change
They become lower in status
They become higher is status
All women are killed in that society
38
Who are the children of siblings of the opposite sex?
Mother sisters
Parallel cousins
Cross cousins
Second cousins
39
What is endogamy?
Obliges a person to marry within the same kin group
Marrying inside the church
When marriage partners are chosen outside the kin group
Marrying in the cold
40
What is the belief in souls and that spirits occupy inanimate objects
Animation
Animaniacs
Animism
Hinduism
41
Polyandry is one woman marrying many men
False
True
42
What is anthropomorphize?
Bubbling up of collective emotional intensity in worship
Formalized, stylized, stereotypical social acts
To give something human non-human qualities
Intense community spirit through collective liminality
43
What is the supernatural?
Cancelled
Powers believed to be human and subject to nature
Powers believed to be not human or not subject to nature
Sam & Dean
44
What is a ritual?
Formalized, stylized, repetitive, stereotypical social acts
To give something that is not human human qualities
Bubbling up of collective emotional intensity in worship
When the penis goes in
45
An = sign indicates divorce in a kinship chart
True
False
46
Race is not an idea we apply to biology
True
False
47
Horticulturalists herd animals as well as forage
True
False
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What is one piece of evidence used to determine when complex language use emerged?
When the mongols invaded China
When the anatomy of the legs began to change
When complex technology and symbolic artifacts were made
When bulls were domesticated
49
How is race determined in Brazil?
It is based on phenotype
It is based on class and phenotype
There are 5 races in Brazil
It is based on class
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What is effervescence?
Intense community spirit through collective liminality
Bubbling up of collective emotional intensity in worship
Formalized, stylized, repetitive, stereotypical social acts
To give something that is not human human qualities
51
Why is witchcraft hard to prove?
Because we burn all the witches
Because witches are good at destroying evidence
Because witchcraft is based in thought and emotion
Because witchcraft is based in fact and science
52
Glocalization is marketing a product in another country through the lens of your country
True
False
53
What is the most common residence practiced in the U.S.?
Matrilocal
Neolocal
Patrilocal
2-Story
54
57% of the world practices arranged marriages
True
False
55
What percentage of humans are born intersexed?
We are all intersex
2%
50%
%33.333333333333333333333
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What is a Phoneme?
The smallest meaningful unit of sound
The smallest meaningful unit of language
The dictionary of a language; all the words and meanings
The grammar of a language or how words are put together
57
What is personhood?
When a woman loses her virginity
When a person is culturally integrated into society
A sick hoodie from the Gap
When a boy turns 13
58
What is your family of orientation?
The family that you move in with
The family that you marry into
The family that you are born and raised in
The fake family you make up to feel less lonely
59
What is polygyny?
An orgy
One man marrying many men
One woman marrying many men
One man marrying many women
60
Why do mothers have their daughters circumcised?
So they can be marriable
For cleanliness purposes
Just because
So their genitalia looks bettter
61
What are ancestor spirits
Ghosts of homosexuals
Ghosts of celebrities
Ghosts of cousins
Ghosts of relatives
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Family and friends receive general reciprocity more often than others
True
False
63
What is balanced reciprocity?
The movement of good across a border
Someone gives another person and expects a future return
Immediate exchange of goods for an expected future return
Capitalism
64
What is a ghost?
Supernatural beings who were once human
When you cum in a glass of water
Colin
Casey
65
What is paralanguage?
Spanish
A form of communication that acts as a language but is not
Optional vocal features that communicate meaning
The language of paratroopers
66
Globalization is the massive spread of goods, information and capital across the world
True
False
67
What is NOT a theory that explains the gender division of labor?
Strength
Economy of Effort
Compatibility of Labor
Expendability
68
What is kwashiorkor?
Disease caused by lack of protein and surplus of calories
Disease caused by lack of vitamin D
Disease caused by being obese
Disease caused by a lack of calories and surplus of protein
69
What happen to the "children who never grow up"?
They "turn into rats"
They "turn into snakes"
They are eaten by snakes
They "go to never land"
70
We examine lithics to determine when language use emerged
False
True
71
How old is writing?
6,000 years old
10,000 years old
As old as Bernie Sanders
300 years old
72
Why did Dettwyler use numbers instead of names?
To better organize the children scientificaly
All of the above
To protect the identities of the children
Because all of the children's names were similar
73
What buildings could make "natural disasters" human?
Poorly built skyscrapers
Well built skyscrapers
Wallwork Hall
The Space Needle
74
What is exogamy?
Marrying in the heat
When marriage partners are chosen outside the kin group
Obliges a person to marry within their kin group
Marrying outside of the church
75
How do the Na live?
Matrilinealy
Neolinealy
Patrilinealy
They are all dead
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What is communitas?
Bubbling up of collective emotional intensity in worship
Intense community spirit through collective liminality
To give something that is not human human qualities
Formalized, stylized, repetitive, stereotypical social acts
