Cultural Studies Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Cultural Studies examines the complex ways in which culture both shapes and is shaped by societal forces, identities, and power structures. This course explores theories and methods for analyzing cultural practices, texts, and institutions, addressing topics such as race, gender, class, media, and globalization. Students will critically engage with diverse cultural forms and practices to understand how meaning is produced, circulated, and contested within different historical and social contexts.
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Cultural Anthropology The Human Challenge 13th Edition by William A. Haviland
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Chapter 1: The Essence of Anthropology
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Q1) Besides providing factual accounts of the fate of victims who had disappeared (desaparecidos)to their surviving kin,Snow's work helped convict several Argentine military officers of kidnapping,torture,and murder.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The anthropologists who focus on humans as biological organisms,tracing their evolutionary development and looking at biological variations within the species,past and present are known as _______________.
A)archaeologists
B)linguistic anthropologists
C)biologists
D)physical anthropologists
E)forensic anthropologists
Answer: D
Q3) The shared,learned behavior of non-human apes should not be considered culture. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Characteristics of Culture
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Q1) The process in which culture is transmitted from one generation to the next is called
A)enculturation
B)acculturation
C)diffusion
D)transmission
E)adaptation
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following statements is correct?
A)A society is a union of multiple cultures.
B)Human survival depends on individuals being fit.
C)A correctly functioning culture has consistency across all of its parts,though not necessarily harmony.
D)Unregulated self-gratification does not impact the society as a whole.
E)All of the above are correct.
Answer: C
Q3) A society's economic base is part of the superstructure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Ethnographic Research: Its History, methods, and
Theories
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Q1) Anthropologist _______________ is a leading advocacy anthropologist today and a special rapporteur for the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights.
A)Rodolfo Stavenhagen
B)Clifford Geertz
C)Stephen Lansang
D)Gregory Bates
E)Jonathan Marks
Answer: A
Q2) All of the following provided data on foreign countries for the purpose of "culture-at-a-distance" studies except _______________.
A)popular films
B)photographs
C)literature
D)telephone conversations
E)NEWspapers
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Becoming Human: the Origin and Diversity of Our Species
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Q1) Which of the following primate groups has been observed tool-making most frequently?
A)baboons
B)bonobos
C)rhesus macaques
D)chimpanzees
E)gorillas
Q2) Tool-making puts a premium on _______________.
A)manual dexterity
B)power
C)group size
D)migratory patterns
E)availability of meat
Q3) The Neandertal controversy exists because in comparison to earlier and later species of Homo,the Neandertals _______________.
A)were able to control fire
B)had a very advanced form of language
C)lived only in colder climates of Europe
D)had a less advanced tool tradition
E)can be seen as being biologically transitional
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Chapter 5: Language and Communication
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Q1) What are the long-term goals of the Chantek Foundation?
A)to free all primates from zoos and labs
B)for Chantek and other enculturated apes to live in culture based preserves instead of zoos or research centers.
C)to teach all primates how to use American Sign Language
D)to begin teaching primates how to write
E)to finish this work and allow Chantek to return to the wild
Q2) Paralanguage includes not only the way that people say things but also a variety of extralinguistic noises called _______________.
A)phonemes
B)kinesics
C)vocalizations
D)substitution frames
E)syntax
Q3) Human culture as we know it could have easily existed without language.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Social Identity, personality, and Gender
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Q1) Standards that define normal behavior for any culture are determined by that culture itself.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Clearly,the biological capacity for what we think of as humanhood,which entails culture,must be nurtured to be realized.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Female anthropologist _________________________________ stated that the purpose of anthropology is to "make the world safe for human differences."
A)Nancy Scheper-Hughes
B)Catherine Bateson
C)Mary Douglas
D)Margaret Mead
E)Ruth Benedict
Q4) Individual personalities in traditional societies are far from being uniform.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Patterns of Subsistence
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Q1) One of the most significant characteristics of the food-producing way of life was the development of _______________.
A)permanent settlements
B)transient populations
C)skillful hunters
D)adept gathers
E)increased egalitarianism
Q2) City dwellers are only indirectly concerned with adapting to their natural environment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Among the Indians of the Great Plains of North America,many women gained fame as hunters and warriors.This may be used to demonstrate that division of labor by sex is determined by biological factors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) About 3 million people live by food foraging in the world today.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Economic Systems
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Q1) In North American society,the trading of baseball cards and the buying of drinks when one's turn comes at gatherings are examples of what type of reciprocity?
A)generalized
B)negative
C)balanced
D)derisive
E)neither are examples of any type of reciprocity
Q2) Market exchange is usually associated with _______________.
A)hunting and gathering bands
B)horticultural tribes
C)pastoral tribes
D)some sort of complex division of labor as well as a centralized political organization
E)the household as the unit of production and consumption
Q3) Among the Inca there was such a thing as "chocolate money."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Sex, marriage, and Family
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Q1) In which of the following countries is same-sex marriages considered socially acceptable and allowed by law?
A)Mexico
B)South Africa
C)Italy
D)the Netherlands
E)Zimbabwe
Q2) Instinctive repulsion does not explain institutionalized incest.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Since the 1860s in Montana,marriage is possible between two people when neither is present.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most prevalent form of marriage worldwide is polygamy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) First-cousin marriage is prohibited in 40 states in the United States.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) a practice of ritual adoption is called god-parenthood is practiced in many parts of Europe and beyond.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Members of a moiety _______________.
A)belong to one of two major descent groups in a society
B)are those who are divorced (they lack their "better half")
C)are usually able to trace their exact genealogical links to their common ancestor
D)feel a much stronger feeling of kinship than is felt by members of a lineage or clan
E)belong to a group that is smaller than a lineage
Q3) An important aspect of descent groups is that they _______________.
A)are economic units providing mutual aid
B)provide social security for elderly members
C)often promote harmony by encouraging worship of the group's ancestors
D)play a role in arranging appropriate marriage partners
E)all of the above
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Chapter 11: Grouping by Gender, age, common Interest, and Class
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Q1) With the recent diversity and vitality of common-interest associations,observers have noted a recent increase in participation in all sorts of these groups,especially in North America.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _______________ are associations not based on age,kinship,marriage,or territory but result from a conscious act of joining.
A)Clans
B)Age sets
C)Common-interest associations
D)Age grades
E)Phratries
Q3) Stratified societies are societies which are ____________________________________.
A)value-based structured
B)hierarchically structured
C)independently structured
D)elegantly structured
E)unequally structured
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Chapter 12: Politics, power, and Violence
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Q1) The _______________ of Liberia in West Africa are a classic example of a chiefdom.
A)Nuer
B)Kpelle
C)Inuit
D)Hutu
E)Tutsi
Q2) Since their appearance some 5,000 years ago,states have proven to be stable political systems.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _______________________ is one of Africa's failed states,as a consequence of decades of war.
A)Zimbabwe
B)Congo
C)Zaire
D)South Africa
E)Morocco
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Chapter 13: Spirituality, religion, and the Supernatural
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Q1) The word "shaman" originated among the Penobscot Indians.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Anthropology examines spirituality and religion in terms of the society's ______________________.
A)traditions
B)expectations
C)worldview
D)belief systems
E)sacred places
Q3) Since strict rules and regulations guided religious consciousness,only the elite among Penobscot men could become shamans.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Religion is important to elite members of a society.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The shaman has a relationship with the patient and the community.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Arts
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Q1) To study and analyze art,anthropologists use a combination of which three approaches?
A)narrative,verbal,and aesthetic
B)aesthetic,narrative,and interpretive
C)verbal,interpretive,and visual
D)interpretive,visual,and emotional
E)visual,aesthetic,and emotional
Q2) Oral tradition helps Aborigines claim extensive indigenous land ownership.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The verbal arts would include which of the following?
A)insults
B)proverbs
C)compliments
D)all of the above
E)only a and c
Q4) Repetition of phrases in music (such as the refrain,"He's got the whole world in his hands")implies lack of invention,and has no social function.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Processes of Change
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Q1) Because everyone had access to critical resources and there was little social and economic differentiation among them,the Skolt Lapps had an egalitarian society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Air travel increases the spread of disease.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Because of the stable government and interaction of cultures,revitalization movements are a rare occurrence n the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Brazil's indigenous peoples have shown that they are unable to resist and adapt to demands imposed upon them from outside.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Progress is a term that is often used by anthropologists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Global Challenges local Responses and the
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Q1) Increasingly,the world's indigenous peoples are passive and non-assertive in the face of modernization not willing to defend their own interests.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The more divergent cultural traditions are,the more difficult it is for pluralism to be successful.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Current projections say that global population will peak around the year
A)2025
B)3000
C)2075
D)2050
E)2010
Q4) Cosmetic surgery in the United States can be seen as necessary to the patient's psychological health.
A)True
B)False
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