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35 Cards in this Set
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Was the rate of rape high or low among the Iroquois |
High |
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In literate societies that rely on the written word for accumulated wisdom, elders are often viewed in what manner? |
A negative way |
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____ are associations not based on age, kinship, marriage, or territory but result from a conscious act of joining? |
Common interest association |
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A(n) _____ is a special form of social class in which membership is determined by birth and remains fixed for life |
Age set |
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Societies that permit a great deal of ____ are called open class societies. |
Mobility |
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At the top of the caste system in India is the ____ caste. |
Brahman |
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The basis of the tonowi's wealth is___? |
Pigs |
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The primary means of distributing goods in a chiefdom is ____? |
Redistribution |
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Among the Igbo of Nigeria, men and women each had separate, autonomous spheres of ____? |
Political activity |
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Wape villagers avoid quarelling with each other because ____? |
They believe that a hunter misses his prey only because of the intervention of ancestral ghosts who are angry with the quarreling in the community |
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Sanctions refer to _____? |
Externalized social controls |
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Playing a leading role in the development of the anthropology of law, ______ has taken on specialists in the fields of law, children's issues, nuclear energy, and science, critically questioning the basic assumptions under which these experts operate. |
Laura Nader |
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A people's collection of gods and goddesses is called a _____? |
Pantheon |
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Belief in a supreme being who controls the universe is usually associated with _____ level of political organization? |
States |
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The major difference between animism and animatism have to do with whether the supernatural force which occupies an entity is ____? |
personal or impersonal and without identity |
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Chan monastics are in the country of _____? |
Taiwan |
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Ju/'hoansi Hiller's possess the powerful healing force called n/um. N/um generally remains dormant in a healer into an effort is made to activate. Among the ways to activate n/um are ______? |
Singing, playing instruments |
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In southern Africa's Swaziland all types of illnesses are generally thought to be caused by ______ and _______? |
sorcery and loss of ancestral protection |
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To study and analyze art, anthropologists use a combination of which three approaches? |
A combination of aesthetic, narrative, and interpretive approaches |
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Anthropologist prefer to use the term verbal or rather than the term folklore because _____? |
recognizing that the distinction between folk art and fine art is a projection imposed by Western elites; A term coined by the 19th centaur scholars studying the unwritten stories and other artistic traditions of rural people to distinguish between "folk art" and the "fine art" of the literate elite. |
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The "little songs" of the Bedouin are antistructural because they _____? |
deal with personal matters and feelings more appropriate to informal social situations; shield individuals from the consequences of making statements that contravene the moral system |
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Tattoos are universal forms of body art that may have been present as far back as _____ years ago? |
the Upper Paleolithic era (10,00 - 40,000 years ago) |
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An ethnomusicologist would be interested in ______? |
music within its cultural context and from a comparative and realistic perspective |
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The verbal arts would include which of the following? |
the verbal arts include narratives, dramas, poetry, incantations, proverbs, riddles, word games - as well as naming procedures, compliments and insults, when these take structured and special forms; Generally, the narratives that make up the verbal arts have been divided into several basic and recurring categories, including myth legend, and tale. |
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According to North American anthropologist Ralph Linton, about 90% of any cultures content comes from _____? |
Diffusion |
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The extermination of one group of people by another, often deliberately and in the name of progress, is called _______? |
Genocide |
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The British introduced cricket "to civilize" the Trobriand Islanders. What happened? |
Although the Trobrianders took to the sport, they "rubbished" the British rules. Making cricket their own way, they played in traditional battle dress and incorporated battle magic and erotic dancing into the game. They modified the British style of pitching, making it resemble the old Trobriand way of throwing a spear. And following the game, they held massive feasts, where wealth was displayed to enhance their prestige. |
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Violent eradication of an ethnic groups collective cultural identity is called ______? |
Ethnocide |
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Syncretism results when ______? |
In acculturation, the creative blending of indigenous and foreign beliefs and practices into new cultural forms. |
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There are 192 formally and admitted as members of the UN today, but there are approximately ______ national groups that consider themselves distinct because of birth and cultural and territorial heritage? |
An estimated 5,000 |
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In the search for cheap labor, global corporations have tended to favor _____ for low skilled assembly jobs? |
Women |
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In the United States there are ___ different ethnic groups within its borders (in addition to hundreds of federally recognized American Indians). |
120 |
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PCB contamination in breast milk is nowhere higher than among the ___. |
The Inuit |
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In ___ indigenous peoples joined together to establish the World Council of indigenous peoples |
1975 |
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All told, about ___ people in the world are undernourished. |
1 billion |
