Exam 8: The Characteristics of Culture

In the barrel model of culture subsistence is part of the _______________.

Until their conquest of the Jordan Valley in Palestine over 3,000 years ago, the Israelites practiced what form of subsistence?

Distinguish and define the following terms: infrastructure, social structure, and superstructure.

All cultures are:

Culture exclusively concerns observable data.

Which species was found to exhibit learned behavior that fostered nonaggressive interaction with indigenous hunters and gatherers in the Kalahari?

A culture is a maintenance system to ensure the well-being of a group of people.

Canela Indians do not have a sexual code.

What is the difference between sex and gender?

How can mild ethnocentrism be viewed as culturally adaptive?

A national flag and national anthem are mostly symbols of a society's:

Humans are socialized through enculturation.

Who first defined culture for anthropology?

The belief that one must suspend judgment on other people's cultures in order to understand them is called __________________________.

Which best describes adaptation among humans?

For a culture to survive, it must produce behavior that is generally _______________ to the natural environment.

What are the most acute challenges that current pastoral nomads face south of the Sahara Desert?

Both _______________ and Jews have dietary prohibitions against the consumption of pigs.

All cultures have a degree of ethnocentrism.

The rule-governed relationships that hold members of a society together are called its: