ANTH113FA2007TESTTwo

ANTH 113 EXAM II on Friday November 9, 2007


1 According to Going International #1 , to succeed we must learn the rules, but that is not
enough. We must: 
ask questions.
behave as a child.
cultivate linguistic skills.
decide to do something!

2 Asen Balicki did his fieldwork dealing with educational changes among the Netsilik, located in:
Alaska.
Bavaria.
Canada.
Greenland.

3 The term dege among the Dani of the South Pacific actually meant:
a human being.
a spirit or malevolent ghost.
creatures from their "heaven."
a dogging stick or spear.

4 Anthropologists who did research on "Culture and Personality" are generally interested in:
modal personality.
basic personality structure.
cultural character.
all-of-the-above!

5 In the early 1920s (when Margaret Mead did her fieldwork in New Guinea), the island of Manus was under ____ "control."
America.
Great Britain.
Australia.
Japan.

6 For John Marshall (Bushmen of the Kalahari in the Guidebook), the "spine" of Bushmen life was:
trust.
peace.
cooperation.
all-of-the-above!

7 It was pointed out in lecture that Margaret Mead's 1928 publication entitled Coming of
Age in Samoa was declared to be:
The best publication on Samoa ever (and still being read today!).
A useful publication but a bit out-of-date.
Declared to be the worst "nonfiction of the century" (in the year 2000).
None-of-the-above.

8 According to Friedl (S&M), the key to women's power is:
the ability to appear submissive.
having a large number of children.
control over family finances.
control of goods and services distributed outside the family.

9 The nation of Papua New Guinea became independent in 2005.
TRUE
FALSE

10 A form of anxiety that results from an inability to predict the behavior of others or act appropriately in cross-cultural situations is known as CULTURE SHOCK.
TRUE
FALSE

11 In Anthropology, HRAF refers to Harvard Research And Film (Inc.).
TRUE
FALSE

12 In writing about Brazil, Scheper-Hughes (S&M) pointed out that "infant death becomes routine in an environment in which death is anticipated and bets are hedged." 
TRUE
FALSE

13 In traditional times "The nuclear family, consisting of the father, mother, and children, was the most important social unit among the Netsilik Eskimos.
TRUE
FALSE

14 The cultural knowledge of the supernatural that people use to cope with the ultimate problems of human existence is known as COSMOLOGY.
TRUE
FALSE

15 The sociopolitical Organization of the Dani of New Guinea is based on military control.
TRUE
FALSE