Globalization and Culture Final
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Course Introduction
Globalization and Culture examines the dynamic interplay between global processes and cultural practices around the world. The course explores how globalization influences identities, traditions, and everyday life by facilitating the movement of people, ideas, goods, and media across borders. Students analyze both the homogenizing and diversifying effects of globalization on local cultures, the emergence of hybrid identities, and issues such as cultural imperialism, resistance, and adaptation. Through case studies and theoretical frameworks, the course encourages critical thinking about cultural change, transnationalism, and the complex ways in which global and local forces interact.
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Cultural Anthropology 3rd Edition by Nancy Bonvillain
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Chapter 1: What Is Anthropology
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Q1) Groups who practice female genital mutilation defend it on __________ grounds.
A) political
B) medical
C) cultural
D) religious
Answer: C
Q2) Chopsticks are an example of __________ culture.
A) symbolic
B) ancient
C) holistic
D) material
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a method of ethnographic "fieldwork" research?
A) observation
B) colonization
C) documentation
D) data collection
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Nature of Culture
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Q1) Globalization began with __________.
A) United States' interest in Latin America and the Pacific during the late nineteenth century
B) expansion of the Roman Empire during the first century
C) European colonial and mercantile expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
D) the explosion of media and information technology during the late twentieth century
Answer: C
Q2) Technology is a primary way in which culture is __________.
A) profitable
B) altered
C) maladaptive
D) adaptive
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Studying Culture
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Q1) Functionalism, as developed by Malinowski, was most influential in __________ anthropology.
A) British
B) French
C) American
D) German
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following anthropological perspectives would be useful for understanding the impact warfare between societies has on cultural norms and practices?
A) conflict
B) materialist
C) structuralist
D) interpretive
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Language and Culture
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Q1) __________ are rudimentary languages that have a simplified grammar and a limited vocabulary.
A) Pidgins
B) Creoles
C) Lingua francas
D) Dialects
Q2) Words or phrases and sentences also convey __________ that varies with the relationship people have with one another as well as the context in which they are speaking.
A) grammar
B) logic
C) interactional meaning
D) syntax
Q3) Indigenous systems of meaning are known as __________.
A) pidgins
B) dialects
C) creoles
D) ethnosemantics
Q4) Give three examples of nonverbal communication and explain why nonverbal communication is problematic in cross-cultural situations.
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Chapter 5: Learning Ones Culture
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Q1) Discuss the idea of social birth by comparing common American practices with those of the Zuni.
Q2) __________ is the process of learning and incorporating attitudes, values, and behaviors so that they seem natural or part of one's nature rather than learned cultural behavior.
A) Psychology
B) Naturalization
C) Personality formation
D) Selfhood
Q3) What is an initiation rite and what does it serve? Give an example.
Q4) Compare early ideas about national character studies to current ideas about the intersection of personality and culture. How have ideas about psychology and personality changed since the early days of anthropology?
Q5) Two factors, __________ and __________, contribute to social status and affect children to some degree in every society.
A) class, age
B) age, nationality
C) age, gender
D) age, dialect
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Chapter 6: Making a Living
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Q1) Because of resource variability over time, foraging populations ideally would not exceed __________.
A) the carrying capacity of the area in a bad year
B) the carrying capacity of the area in an average year
C) one person per twenty square miles
D) one person per five square miles
Q2) Although certain key resources may be considered to be owned by a person or family in foraging societies, for example acorn groves by the Miwoks of California, owners
A) must grant formal requests by others to use the resource
B) must provide for the upkeep of the resource or risk loss of ownership
C) cannot sell any of the resource to others
D) must distribute excess foods from the resource with others when it is available
Q3) How does the gender distribution of labor and the ability to own property affect gender relations across cultures and subsistence strategies?
Q4) How can economic activity be interpreted from archaeological remains? Why is it important that cultural anthropologists work with archaeologists to analyze and interpret the findings?
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Chapter 7: Economic Systems
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Q1) What is another form of redistribution?
A) trade
B) markets
C) negative reciprocity
D) barter
Q2) The use of subsistence resources, including outcomes of production.
A) subsistence
B) economic system
C) consumption
D) allocation
Q3) In the excerpt from the novel Fragments of Memory, Hanna Mina describes the plight of __________ in his homeland.
A) child laborers
B) hunters and gatherers
C) miners
D) sharecroppers
Q4) What are the similarities and differences between barter, trade, and market economies?
Q5) How have work patterns changed in the last 100 years for people in developed nations? In developing nations?
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Chapter 8: Kinship and Descent
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Q1) In societies where __________ is the kinship system, individuals often choose the descent group that will advantage them the most in resources or power.
A) double descent
B) ambilineal descent
C) parallel descent
D) unilineal descent
Q2) Mohawk clan chiefs are selected by __________.
A) election
B) lineal seniority
C) a long record of public service
D) clan mothers
Q3) How did (and does) the kinship system of the Mohawks work to balance economic and political rights between man and women?
Q4) The __________ system makes distinctions between 1) the nuclear family and all other types of relatives and 2) on gender.
A) Omaha
B) Crow
C) Hawaiian
D) Eskimo
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Chapter 9: Marriage and the Family
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Q1) The U.S. Census Bureau reported that the size of families in America had __________ from 1980 to 2009.
A) increased 10%
B) doubled
C) tripled
D) decreased
Q2) A __________ family combines the children from previous marriages into a new family when their parents marry.
A) blended
B) combined
C) mixed
D) new
Q3) Economic deterrents to divorce in some cultures include __________ and __________.
A) bridewealth, divorce compensation
B) the cost of living for a single person, living with parents
C) dowries, bridewealth
D) banishment from kin networks, confiscation of property
Q4) How do anthropologists define households? Families? (EVALAUTE)
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Chapter 10: Gender
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Q1) Why are women marginalized in traditional Maasai society?
A) they cannot attend school
B) they cannot become elders
C) they cannot be clan leaders
D) they cannot be herders
Q2) __________ is the term for the roles that people perform in their households and communities and the values and attitudes that people have regarding men and women.
A) Sex
B) Biology
C) Gender
D) Constructs
Q3) Government statistics show that in the United States in 2000, __________ of households consisted of a married couple.
A) 52%
B) 65%
C) 77%
D) 89%
Q4) What kinds of effects did colonialism have on gender relations in indigenous societies in Africa and the Americas?
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Chapter 11: Equality and Inequality
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Q1) Ranked societies __________.
A) tend to have rankings that are highly stable over time
B) tend to be very dynamic with ranks rising and falling over time
C) are very similar to caste systems
D) are represented by such nations as Norway and Japan
Q2) What is the term for a social position that a person is born into?
A) power
B) prestige
C) ascribed status
D) achieved status
Q3) Most people in Japan consider the quality of being Japanese to be __________.
A) learned
B) ascribed
C) adopted
D) achieved
Q4) __________ are the most rapidly spreading type of society in the world today.
A) Ranked societies
B) Egalitarian societies
C) Stratified societies based on class
D) Stratified societies based on caste
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Chapter 12: Political Systems
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Q1) Chiefs are NOT able to __________ in order to gain the compliance of people.
A) use bribery
B) change legal statutes
C) use force
D) use persuasion
Q2) In Tiwi society __________ are the fundamental units of organization.
A) kin groups
B) households
C) political parties
D) trade networks
Q3) Which of the following is NOT an example of a successful factionalist campaign?
A) the Civil Rights Movement
B) the Mexican Revolution
C) the United States Confederacy
D) the American Revolution
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a chiefdom society?
A) they are a surplus-producing economy
B) they are nomadic, relying upon foraging for sustenance
C) they are stratified societies, organized by kinship
D) they have some degree of centralized authority
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Chapter 13: Conflict and Conflict Resolution
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Q1) The primary goal(s) of tribal warfare were __________.
A) territorial gain
B) slaves and wealth
C) social and ritual
D) the destruction of the enemy population
Q2) The Taita believe that __________ may easily become ill.
A) a person who is angry
B) a person who has anger directed at them
C) a person who suppresses anger
D) a person who does not get angry
Q3) Toraja society etiquette directs conflict toward __________, where conflict is considered to be a normal and predictable event.
A) daily interactions
B) market transactions
C) ritual occasions
D) family gatherings
Q4) Describe how conflicts are resolved in Semai society in Malaysia.
Q5) What behaviors and practices are used to avoid conflict in daily life? Give examples of these practices in the context of Japanese and Western society.
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Chapter 14: Religion
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Q1) Semi-divine or human __________ are lesser religious beings who are important in stories and myths.
A) demons
B) souls
C) heroes
D) angels
Q2) Full-time religious specialists are called __________.
A) monks
B) priests
C) shamans
D) mediums
Q3) In Latino populations, a traditional spiritual disease that healers treat is susto, which is believed to be __________.
A) spirit possession
B) illness brought on by jealousy
C) soul loss
D) similar to mononucleosis
Q4) What are revitalization movements? Explain the distinctions between nativistic, messianic, and millenarian movements.
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Chapter 15: The Arts
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Q1) African and Asian artistic traditions have __________ Western art since the nineteenth century.
A) influenced
B) not influenced
C) been influenced by
D) not been influenced by
Q2) In Indonesia, Toraja __________ have attracted great interest from tourists.
A) puberty rites
B) marriage ceremonies
C) funerals
D) houses
Q3) Anthropologically speaking, art is required to exhibit what?
A) symbolism
B) skill
C) abstractness
D) ethnicity
Q4) What are the earliest forms of art known and where do they come from? Outline two theories that address the origins of art. Which do you prefer and why?
Q5) What are the commonalities and differences between oral and written literature?
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Chapter 16: Colonialism and Cultural Transformations
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Q1) A consequence of the enormous native loss of life due to conquest and disease in Spanish America was __________.
A) an economic depression caused by lack of labor
B) a shift to agriculture and away from mining
C) the importation of African slaves
D) land grants to any Spaniards who would settle in the Spanish Americas
Q2) In the Spanish Americas, indigenous people who __________ became free laborers with little choice but to accept work as sharecroppers or in mines.
A) committed petty crimes
B) were born after 1610
C) were dispossessed of their lands
D) moved to urban areas
Q3) Discuss the political, economic, and social impacts of the slave trade on Africa. How do these issues affect modern-day Africa?
Q4) What means did the United States use to acquire Native American lands? What role did the reservation system play in this taking of land?
Q5) What are the three categories of colonies and what are their economic and political purposes? Give an example of each.
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Chapter 17: Living in a Global World
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Q1) All of the following EXCEPT __________ pose serious threats to Amazonian Indians, both by pushing them off their land and by killing them.
A) multinational corporations
B) the Brazilian government
C) settlers
D) cattle ranchers
Q2) What are the major problems and dangers facing indigenous people in Brazil? What role has the Brazilian government played during the twentieth century in this issue? Be sure to mention urban Indians in your answer.
Q3) Maquiladoras assemble __________.
A) furniture
B) automobiles
C) precut garment pieces
D) kitchen appliances
Q4) Rural to urban migration has tended to be __________.
A) labor migration
B) refugee migration
C) transnational migration
D) nonexistent
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