Question 1

Culture is both public and individual, both in the world and in people's minds.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What anthropological approach focuses on how people with different motives, intentions, and degrees of power and influence manage to create and transform the society in which they live?

Accepted Answer

A) Cultural relativism 
B) Experimental anthropology 
C) Interpretive anthropology 
D) Neoevolutionism 
E) Practice theory 
A) Cultural relativism 
B) Experimental anthropology 
C) Interpretive anthropology 
D) Neoevolutionism 
E) Practice theory

Question 3

Explain the differences between cultural universals, generalities, and particularities.Illustrate your answer with examples.

Accepted Answer

Cultural universals, generalities, and p

Question 4

Describe the biological features that humans share with primates and how they provide a biological basis for cultural attributes.How is human culture similar to and different from aspects of primate life?

Accepted Answer

Humans share several biological features

Question 5

What are the defining attributes of culture? What does it mean that culture is learned, shared, symbolic, all-encompassing, and integrated?

Accepted Answer

The defining attributes of culture inclu

Question 6

Only people living in the industrialized, capitalist countries of western Europe and the United States are ethnocentric.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

What kind of diffusion takes place when two cultures trade, intermarry, or wage war on one another?

Accepted Answer

A) Forced diffusion 
B) Direct diffusion 
C) Indirect diffusion 
D) Enculturated diffusion 
E) Bilateral diffusion 
A) Forced diffusion 
B) Direct diffusion 
C) Indirect diffusion 
D) Enculturated diffusion 
E) Bilateral diffusion

Question 8

Which of the following statements about culture is not true?

Accepted Answer

A) All human groups have culture. 
B) Culture provides the particular way that groups of humans deal with biological needs. 
C) Human groups differ in their capacities for culture. 
D) The capacity for culture is shared by all humans. 
E) Cultural learning is uniquely elaborated among humans. 
A) All human groups have culture. 
B) Culture provides the particular way that groups of humans deal with biological needs. 
C) Human groups differ in their capacities for culture. 
D) The capacity for culture is shared by all humans. 
E) Cultural learning is uniquely elaborated among humans.

Question 9

Which of the following traits is not shared by humans and chimpanzees?

Accepted Answer

A) Tool use 
B) Meat eating 
C) Stereoscopic vision 
D) High intelligence 
E) Estrus 
A) Tool use 
B) Meat eating 
C) Stereoscopic vision 
D) High intelligence 
E) Estrus

Question 10

What are cultural particulars?

Accepted Answer

A) Features of a culture that are isolated from other features in the same culture 
B) Features unique to a given culture, not shared with any others 
C) Different levels of culture 
D) The most general aspect of culture patterns 
E) Cultural features exhibited by individuals rather than groups. 
A) Features of a culture that are isolated from other features in the same culture 
B) Features unique to a given culture, not shared with any others 
C) Different levels of culture 
D) The most general aspect of culture patterns 
E) Cultural features exhibited by individuals rather than groups.

Question 11

The Internet has hindered the process of globalization.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

How are cultural rights different from human rights?

Accepted Answer

A) Human rights are real, while cultural rights are just perceived. 
B) The United Nations protects human rights but not cultural rights. 
C) Cultural rights are vested in groups, not in individuals. 
D) Cultural rights are more clear-cut than human rights. 
E) The term cultural rights is a politically correct synonym for human rights. 
A) Human rights are real, while cultural rights are just perceived. 
B) The United Nations protects human rights but not cultural rights. 
C) Cultural rights are vested in groups, not in individuals. 
D) Cultural rights are more clear-cut than human rights. 
E) The term cultural rights is a politically correct synonym for human rights.

Question 13

Which of the following is a cultural generality?

Accepted Answer

A) Life in groups 
B) The use of fire 
C) Incest taboo 
D) Use of symbols 
E) Nuclear family 
A) Life in groups 
B) The use of fire 
C) Incest taboo 
D) Use of symbols 
E) Nuclear family

Question 14

Although there are many different levels of culture, an individual can participate in only one level at a time.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

To what extent is tool use unique to humans? Illustrate your answer with examples from studies of nonhuman animals, including other primates.

Accepted Answer

Tool use was once considered a uniquely

Question 16

Recent research on chimpanzee eating habits indicates that

Accepted Answer

A) chimps engage in both opportunistic and planned hunting. 
B) male chimps are exclusive herbivores. 
C) chimpanzees occasionally cook meat at volcanically heated springs. 
D) while chimps do hunt a little, they get most of their meat by stealing it from predators. 
E) chimpanzee hunting is the main reason New World monkeys are almost extinct. 
A) chimps engage in both opportunistic and planned hunting. 
B) male chimps are exclusive herbivores. 
C) chimpanzees occasionally cook meat at volcanically heated springs. 
D) while chimps do hunt a little, they get most of their meat by stealing it from predators. 
E) chimpanzee hunting is the main reason New World monkeys are almost extinct.

Question 17

According to anthropologists, cultures eventually become fixed traditions and stop changing.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

What term refers to the process by which humans innovate, creatively finding solutions to problems?

Accepted Answer

A) Enculturation 
B) Acculturation 
C) Independent invention 
D) Globalization 
E) Diffusion 
A) Enculturation 
B) Acculturation 
C) Independent invention 
D) Globalization 
E) Diffusion

Question 19

Klein's "creative explosion" hypothesis states that modern human behaviors began in

Accepted Answer

A) Africa, 200,000 years ago. 
B) Europe, 45,000 years ago. 
C) Africa, 2.5 million years ago. 
D) East Asia, 1.7 million years ago. 
E) North America, 10,000 years ago. 
A) Africa, 200,000 years ago. 
B) Europe, 45,000 years ago. 
C) Africa, 2.5 million years ago. 
D) East Asia, 1.7 million years ago. 
E) North America, 10,000 years ago.

Question 20

The idea of universal, inalienable human rights that are superior to the laws and customs of particular cultures challenges the notion of cultural relativism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Culture is both public and individual, both in the world and in people's minds.

What anthropological approach focuses on how people with different motives, intentions, and degrees of power and influence manage to create and transform the society in which they live?

Explain the differences between cultural universals, generalities, and particularities.Illustrate your answer with examples.

Describe the biological features that humans share with primates and how they provide a biological basis for cultural attributes.How is human culture similar to and different from aspects of primate life?

What are the defining attributes of culture? What does it mean that culture is learned, shared, symbolic, all-encompassing, and integrated?

Only people living in the industrialized, capitalist countries of western Europe and the United States are ethnocentric.

What kind of diffusion takes place when two cultures trade, intermarry, or wage war on one another?

Which of the following statements about culture is not true?

Which of the following traits is not shared by humans and chimpanzees?

What are cultural particulars?

The Internet has hindered the process of globalization.

How are cultural rights different from human rights?

Which of the following is a cultural generality?

Although there are many different levels of culture, an individual can participate in only one level at a time.

To what extent is tool use unique to humans? Illustrate your answer with examples from studies of nonhuman animals, including other primates.

Recent research on chimpanzee eating habits indicates that

According to anthropologists, cultures eventually become fixed traditions and stop changing.

What term refers to the process by which humans innovate, creatively finding solutions to problems?

Klein's "creative explosion" hypothesis states that modern human behaviors began in

The idea of universal, inalienable human rights that are superior to the laws and customs of particular cultures challenges the notion of cultural relativism.

What Is Anthropology

Doing Anthropology

Language and Communication

Making a Living

Political Systems

Families, Kinship, and Marriage

Gender

Religion

Ethnicity and Race

Applying Anthropology

The World System and Colonialism

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

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Exam 2: Culture

Culture is both public and individual, both in the world and in people's minds.

What anthropological approach focuses on how people with different motives, intentions, and degrees of power and influence manage to create and transform the society in which they live?

Explain the differences between cultural universals, generalities, and particularities.Illustrate your answer with examples.

Describe the biological features that humans share with primates and how they provide a biological basis for cultural attributes.How is human culture similar to and different from aspects of primate life?

What are the defining attributes of culture? What does it mean that culture is learned, shared, symbolic, all-encompassing, and integrated?

Only people living in the industrialized, capitalist countries of western Europe and the United States are ethnocentric.

What kind of diffusion takes place when two cultures trade, intermarry, or wage war on one another?

Which of the following statements about culture is not true?

Which of the following traits is not shared by humans and chimpanzees?

What are cultural particulars?

The Internet has hindered the process of globalization.

How are cultural rights different from human rights?

Which of the following is a cultural generality?

Although there are many different levels of culture, an individual can participate in only one level at a time.

To what extent is tool use unique to humans? Illustrate your answer with examples from studies of nonhuman animals, including other primates.

Recent research on chimpanzee eating habits indicates that

According to anthropologists, cultures eventually become fixed traditions and stop changing.

What term refers to the process by which humans innovate, creatively finding solutions to problems?

Klein's "creative explosion" hypothesis states that modern human behaviors began in

The idea of universal, inalienable human rights that are superior to the laws and customs of particular cultures challenges the notion of cultural relativism.

What Is Anthropology

Doing Anthropology

Language and Communication

Making a Living

Political Systems

Families, Kinship, and Marriage

Gender

Religion

Ethnicity and Race

Applying Anthropology

The World System and Colonialism

Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Filters