問題一覧
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What term do Mosuo use to refer to women being able to choose and change partners openly, with men visiting only at night?
Walking marriage
2
The potential, ambiguity and vulnerability that exists in places outside of normal time and space, specifically when you are "in-between" roles and positions in society.
Liminality
3
Okinawan "moai", sharing souvenirs, and treating a friend to coffee were all brought up as examples of the following system of distribution:
Reciprocity
4
All societies have some version of the following taboo that forbids family members from having sexual relations:
Incest
5
Which of the following is the most ethnographic way to study "ordering something through UberEats"?
Becoming an UberEats driver yourself, and writing detailed notes about your observations and conversations for six months.
6
The Maasai of East Africa (see image) were brought up as an example of:
Pastoralism
7
True or False: Adolescence, in all cultures, is associated with rebellious behavior and conflict with parents
False
8
What do the Abelam people eat?
Bananas, taro and wild pig
9
True or False. After listening to Keesing explaining about the intelligence of dolphins, the Kwaio stopped eating them.
False
10
Which of the following is not a result of intensive agriculture?
Shorter labor time
11
In Mosuo culture, which of the following is the most likely to help take care of the children?
The child's mother's brother
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A description of the studied culture from the perspective of an observer or outsider. These tend to be culture-neutral, "scientific" terms and categories used to describe a culture.
Etic
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The following is an important factor in influencing the relationship between the bride's and groom's families, and possibly also the treatment of the bride in her new home.
The bride's family offering proper gifts to the groom's family
14
Fill in the blanks: "I could never leave my own( 1 )world despite my( 2 )successes in entering theirs."
1. "cultural"; 2. "partial".
15
The Kwaio people were known for their hostility and violence towards:
Missionaries and government officials
16
Among the Hadza of Tanzania, it was found that children:
by age 5 hunt and gather about half of their own food, and make their own fires
17
"How can you marry the first man you have ever met?" When the author questioned a participant. Sita, about arranged marriage. Sita's response was:
Sita actively defended the practice, saying that she can enjoy her life more and let her parents do the work and worrying of finding a partner.
18
The Abelam belief in water spirits and the Wester idea of gravity are both valid ways to organize and predict the observable world. In both cases, we cannot "touch" them to verify they exist. Therefore, the author realized that:
Western culture does not have total control over knowledge
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In a cross-cultural sample of hunter-gatherers, it was found that for the most societies, the most important activity was:
Fishing
20
Commensality refers to:
The practice of eating together
21
Which best describes the attitude of both women portrayed on the screen (see image)?
Ethnocentrism
22
Saying "itadakimas" before you eat is an example of:
Ritual
23
Which of the following is not one of the problems the author introduces, showing the vulnerable position of the bride?
Childbearing: women are expected to deliver many babies in quick succession
24
Family is the most important factor in determining social class. One classic sociological book on class reproduction is:
Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (1977) by Paul Willis
25
What is the world's second largest island?
New Guinea
26
The following was not brought up as an example of a challenge to doing ethnographic research:
Always remaining distant and objective
27
Compared to food producers like agriculturists. what is the role of fathers in hunter-gatherer families? They are more likely to:
Take care of babies
28
Fill in the blank: "The kinship diagram on the screen (see image) is an example of a ____ descent group".
Patrilineal
29
Write the letter of the rite of passage and culture that matches the description (choose from the list below): 1 Celebrating a baby's first meal by feeding them a bowl of boiled rice, milk, and sugar. 2 Girls are isolated and perform ritual bathing after menstruation ends. They then re-enter society as a woman. 3 Ceremonial bleeding and receiving fertility through ritualized homosexual acts.
Annaprashana, a Hindu ritual, Menarche in Sri Lanka, Achieving manhood amongst the Sambia of Papua New Guinea
30
Choose the correct term for the following definition: "a shared system of mental elements (beliefs, values, worldview, attitudes, norms), the behaviors produced by those mental elements, and the objects created by those behaviors."
Culture
31
Fill in the blank: "It is understood that matches would be arranged only within the same ____ and general social class".
Caste
32
Making cultural adjustments so as to be able to make life work in high altitudes is an example of:
Adaptation
33
Why have anthropologists paid so much attention to hunter-gatherer (forager) societies?
Because understanding them helps us understand early human cultures.
34
How do Abelam people resolve disputes?
Village elders help everyone calm down and mediate reaching a solution; this is followed by sharing a meal.
35
What is the name of the "father of modern anthropology", who introduced the idea of not one, but multiple cultures (see image)?
Franz Boas
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Keesing draws on two episodes to show his unstable state and a gap between cultures. How did both of these begin?
Writing field notes
37
The Yanomamo people were brought up as an example of a group practicing "cross cousin marriage". Which person would be the preferred wedding partner for the male ego?
Ego's father's sister's daughter
38
The Nyinba example of a woman marrying two brothers to share their resources is an example of:
Polygamy
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Choose the correct term for: "the anthropological field method in which we travel to the society we want to study and spend long periods of time there, not only watching but joining in their culture as much as possible"
Participant observation
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What is "multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork"?
Following people, objects, events across borders, rather than staying at the same place
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True or False: Anthropologists have found that virtually all culfures and all individuals are ethnocentric to some extent.
True
42
How do Marcus, Andrew and George capture giant fruit bats?
Cutting down trees to make a doorway which they fill with nets
43
Going on an airplane, attending a concert, or visiting a live sports event were mentioned as liminal spaces producing a special kind of group solidarity called:
Communitas
44
Which of the following is not a quality of culture?
Traditional
45
Provide the term for the following definition: "the techniques used by the members of a society to obtain food".
Mode of subsistence