Anthropology Test Exam
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- Definitions of Culture used by anthrpologist include
- complex whole wihch includes all learned and shared knowledge and custroms
- the acquired knowledge that people use to interpret their world
- a system of meaning that transforms physical reality into experienced reality
- all of the above
- the main subdisciplinesw which form the basis of anthrpology's broad coverage of human culture, past and present are
- physical anth, biological anth, linguistic anth, socio cultural anth
- physical anth, biological anth, ecology, and history
- ethnology, ecology, ethnohistory, ethnomedicine
- all of the above
- the 19th centurey unilineal cultural evolutionists
- introduced teh concept of cultural relativism
- saw all human cultures as equally valid and important
- tried to save the Tasmanian culture and people from extinction
- believed in the ranking of human societies and the superiority of Western Civilization
- Noam Chomsky presented a theory about language that
- all hmuans have a similar, natural deep grammatical ability or strucutre
- language is solely learned through imitation
- a cultures particular language is programed genetically and inherited
- none of th eabove
- the sapir-whorf hypothesis
- proposes that different languages produce different ways of thinking
- explains why there are primitive cultures and languages
- explains how to rank languages
- discusses the relationship between language, thought and culture
- both a and d
- The people Zinacantan studied by Evon Vogt and the people of Chichicastenango
- have lost all traces of their precolubian roots
- represent direct descendants of the Aztec peoples
- are descendants of the ancient Maya and retain many precolumbian traditions
- are direct descendants of the Spanish
- the experience of sita the young indian girl discussed by freed and freed in their article Tarakas Ghost provides an example of
- the interrelationship between religion, belief and kinship
- the stress associated with marriage for femals in indian society due to post marital residency rules
- a society which believes in ghosts and spirit possession
- all of the above
- which of the following would not be an example of a rite of passage?
- puber rites of the yanamamo
- baptism
- matrilineal descent
- quiecanero or sweet sixteen parties
- mal aire provides an example of
- a death bone cult
- a bad smell
- the relationshpi between illness treatment of illness, and belief systems in a culture
- psychotic behaviors
- cross-cultural studies show that many societies define gender roles differently and define more than two discrete genders, therefore anthropologists conclude that
- gender identity is a cultural construction
- biology determines gender
- gender is innate
- none of the above
