Exam 2: Characteristics of Culture

In your author's example of culture change in Africa south of the Sahara,the government's attempt to settle pastoral nomads in villages has had beneficial results for the people.

The process by which organisms adjust beneficially to their environment,or the characteristics by which they overcome hazards and gain access to the resources they need to survive,is called _______________.

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Which of the following statements is correct?

The idea that culture is shared means that everyone in that culture plays the same roles.

Which of the following is not a common aspect of culture?

If someone comments to you that they cannot pass judgment on a cultural aspect of someone else's culture,what is that concept called?

A group of people without a common culture who are stranded together on a desert island,and who learn to work together for survival while they are there,may be said to constitute a society.

In the movie Witness,a policeman named John Book was able to hide from his corrupt boss by staying with the Amish.He was protected by adopting their mode of dress,by the fact that they had no telephones,and by their being a closely-knit community united by shared values that differed from those of the larger society.The Amish in the United States are an example of a/an _______________.

Analyses of human skeletal remains from the Maya city of Tikal reveal that,on average,_______________.

No known human societies exist,or have existed,that do not exhibit culture.

Polish-born anthropologist ___________________________ argued that people share certain biological and psychological needs.

Among the Kapauku Papuans of NEW Guinea,the fact that an attempt to eliminate warfare (which would create a balanced sex ratio)would affect the practice of polygyny,which would affect the economy (since women raise pigs,and the more wives a man has the more pigs he can keep),shows that culture is _______________.

______________________ set a NEW standard for fieldwork in anthropology through his research with the Trobriand people.

George Esber worked with architects to create more culturally-responsive houses for the Navajo.

Culture is an integrated and interrelated whole,which means that _______________.

Ants and bees instinctively cooperate in a manner that clearly indicates a degree of social organization,therefore they have culture.

Cultures are changing more rapidly today than they did in the past.

Because of the objectivity of anthropological training,anthropologists are able to eliminate the biases that might affect their descriptions of culture in the field.