Exam 8: The Characteristics of Culture

Why do Muslims and Jews have religious prohibitions against eating pork?

Culture is considered to be all of the following except:

Apes in captivity, as opposed to those in the wild, do not have culture.

Which of the following best serves the anthropologist in his/her study of another culture?

Compare and contrast the difference between "culture" and "society."

Which of the following is a true statement?

In many North American Indian societies there were four categories of _______________.

Among both Muslims and Jews, which animal is seen as most defiling?

The existence of pluralistic societies post-date:

Which of the following is not an attribute of culture?

The United States contains many different subcultures.

For a culture to be successful, it must produce collective human behavior that is:

A culture must be able to maintain the same structure through all challenges or it will not survive.

Anthropologist Marvin Harris argues in the chapter Biocultural Connection "Pig Lovers and Pig Haters" that the dietary prohibitions Muslims and Jews have against pork stemmed from it being maladaptive to raise pigs in their environment.

In what ways can food itself be considered a cultural practice?

Because of globalization, cultures change more quickly today than in the past.

English is a set of symbols.

As the effects of globalization increase from moment to moment, what do you think is the ultimate fate of cultural diversity? How might this affect humans in the future?

Your text goes into some detail on Amish communities. Using this as your primary example, discuss the advantages and disadvantages that are associated with more closed types of subcultures within a pluralistic society.

When George Esber, Jr. worked to design a new community for Apaches, he found that they had very explicit awareness of what they wanted.