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Terms in this set (51)The human condition is distinguished from the condition of other living species by culture Culture is
all of the above Sets of leaned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society, together with the material artifacts and structures humans create and use, is an anthropological definition of culture Those parts of culture that are absorbed in the course of daily practical
learning are called habitus According to Rick Potts (as mentioned in the text), which of the following is NOT one of the elements that forms the foundation of culture? Genetics According to Rick
Potts (as mentioned in the text), culture demonstrates continuity between the human and animal realms of behavior Something that stands for something else is
a symbol The process by which human beings, as material organisms, living together with other similar organisms, cope with the behavioral rules established by their respective societies is called socialization The process by which human beings living with one another must learn to come to terms with the ways of thinking and feeling considered appropriate in their respective cultures enculturation According to anthropologist Daniel Miller, the concept of habitus both a and b In the 1970s in Guider, Cameroon, how did material culture mediate the practices of everyday life? All of the above To say that culture and the human brain coevolved is to say that each provided key features of the environment to which the other needed to adapt Complex, variable, and enduring forms of cultural practice that organize
social life are called institutions The exercise of at least some control over their lives by human beings is called human agency The perspective on the human condition that assumes that
mind and body, individuals and society, and individuals and the environment interpenetrate and even define one another is called holism Clifford Geertz, as quoted in the text, observes that human beings raised in isolation would be mental basket cases An approach that views human beings and environments as open systems that modify each other is called coevolutionary Hoyt Alverson discovered that U.S. Peace Corps volunteers in
Botswana had difficulty with their assignments in part because all of the above Hoyt Alverson discovered that the Tswana people he talked to in Botswana and the U.S. Peace Corps volunteers he interviewed
differed with regard to the meaning of being alone The opinion that one's own way of life is natural or correct and the only true way of being fully human is called ethnocentrism Understanding another culture sympathetically enough so that it appears to be a coherent and meaningful design for living is called cultural relativism Cultural relativism requires us to take many things into account before we form opinions about other cultural practices Genocide is the attempt to exterminate an entire people Which
of the following is an example of ritual cutting associated with initiating girls and boys into adulthood? all of the above African women who are trying to eliminate female genital cutting from their own societies are often not happy when American outsiders like Mary Daly and Alice Walker denounce the practice as a human rights
abuse. Why? All of the above are true. When immigrants and refugees from Africa bring traditions of female genital cutting to places like the United States and the European Union, what has been the consequence? All of the above are true. When anthropologist Janice Boddy carried out fieldwork in
northern Sudan, what did she learn about genital cutting? Female circumcision is required to make it possible for a girl to use her fertility. Janice Boddy learned that to infibulate a female body in Hofriyat meant all of the above Which of the following objects in the village
of Hofriyat were associated with the infibulated female body? all of the above In Hofriyat, the ability of an object to retain moisture is likened to its ability to retain fertility, likening a woman's infibulated body to a dried egg-shaped gourd with seeds that rattle inside it What did Boddy's field research teach her about the meanings associated with infibulation in Hofriyat? The meanings associated with female infibulation are reinforced by so many different aspects of everyday life that girls come to consider the operation a profoundly necessary and justifiable procedure. Which of the following is NOT an assumption of cultural determinism regarding human nature and human society? Human beings are passively molded by culture. To argue that "their culture made them do it" is to take the position of cultural relativism The anthropological definition of cultural relativism requires that we make an effort to _______ the
practices of other cultures understand When anthropologists distinguished between Culture and cultures, they were distinguishing between _______ and __________. a defining attribute of human beings / ways of life of specific groups of people. The idea that some cultures dominate others, and that domination by one culture leads inevitably to the destruction of subordinated
cultures and their replacement by the culture of those in power, is called cultural imperialism Many anthropologists are not persuaded that cultural imperialism is the only explanation for the spread of Western cultural forms outside the West because all of the above For
some people, blue jeans, McDonalds hamburgers, hip hop, and Coca-Cola are seen destroying local practices. They call this process cultural imperialism The text quotes Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who claims that as the social sciences were becoming established at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of
the twentieth century, anthropology was assigned the "savage slot." What does he mean by that? Anthropologists became the experts on the societies that were being colonized by European countries and the United States. Adam Kuper (quoted in the text) shows how the rulers in apartheid South Africa used the plural concept of culture to both b and c According to anthropologist Eric Luke Lassiter, does the fact that Kiowas are Christians today show that federal officials and missionaries succeeded in their policies of Western cultural imperialism? None of the above are correct. According to anthropologist Eric Luke Lassiter, which of the following statements accurately describes how the Kiowa people dealt with Christianity? All of the above are true. Perhaps the most profound lesson we can learn from the Kiowa experience of Christianity is the way in which Kiowa Christians have been able to transform what began as an exercise in cultural imperialism into a reaffirmation of traditional Kiowa values challenges the presumption that "authentic cultures" never change. Many contemporary anthropologists call the contemporary process of intensified globalized cultural mixing hybridity Why, according to some anthropologists, is the concept of cultural hybridity almost a good idea? All of the above _______ is being at ease in more than one cultural setting. Cosmopolitanism Anthropological studies of social,
political, and economic change provide considerable evidence that human beings actively and resiliently respond to life's challenges Open-ended negotiation across cultural and political divides can lead to cosmopolitan cultural practices but also to polarization, and tends to be full of conflict and contradiction. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing refers to this phenomenon as friction According to Walter Mignolo, detaching concepts like "democracy" and "justice" from their hegemonic "Western" meanings and practices and using them as tools for imagining new, cosmopolitan forms of democracy or justice that take into consider the views of nonelite groups in society, is called border thinking Critics identify problems with several assumptions of the traditional plural concept of culture in anthropology. Which of the following is NOT one of those problems? All of the above are problems that are identified. At the present time, anthropologists are seeing that the plural definition of culture OPTION A IS MISSING all of the above?? Sets with similar termsATH 155 chapter 8 terms31 terms abechtel17 Actual Cultural Anthro56 terms jdt7625 Anthropology: CH 2 quiz25 terms rubysniderman Anthropology and the study of culture Ch.169 terms wilkerac Sets found in the same folderANTH Chapter 350 terms dkhan185 ANTH Chapter 490 terms dkhan185 ANTH Chapter 771 terms dkhan185 ANTH Chapter 551 terms dkhan185 Other sets by this creatorJPNS L8 Vocab18 terms leonz897123 te form7 terms leonz897123 ch 3 - 6 kanji58 terms leonz897123 adjectives24 terms leonz897123 Other Quizlet setsHormonal Regulation of Metabolism Video39 terms rachel_stinson57 Lesson Plan Questions42 terms calvinist3 The Behaivor of Gases11 terms jpfeiff702980 week 120 terms rossie1469 Related questionsQUESTION Contemporary debates about privacy in American society post-9/11 are fundamentally debates about 8 answers QUESTION What is the name for a culture's set of environmental practices and perceptions? 10 answers QUESTION Bronislaw Malinowski, who wrote Argonauts of the Western Pacific, is best known for his emphasis on 4 answers QUESTION The distinct era in which humans activity is reshaping the planet in permanent, irreversible ways is referred to as what? 15 answers Why according to some anthropologists is the concept of cultural hybridity almost a good idea?Put another way, people rarely accepted ideas or practices or objects from elsewhere without domesticating or indigenizing them. Why, according to some anthropologists, is the concept of cultural hybridity almost a good idea? Emphasizing cultural hybridity can hide class exploitation and racial oppression.
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