Question 1

Unlike "indigenous peoples," what term, which highlights the prominence that the exclusion of strangers has assumed in day-to-day politics worldwide, has been claimed by majority groups in Europe?

Accepted Answer

A)  indigenous people 
B)  autochthon 
C)  mestizo 
D)  euroindio 
E)  freedom fighter

Question 2

What is the difference between postmodernity and postmodernism? How has postmodernity affected the units of anthropological study?

Accepted Answer

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Question 3

Ethnoecology is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptions-that is, its cultural model of the environment and its relation to people and society.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Cases where local communities use modern technology to preserve and revise their traditions

Accepted Answer

A)  are examples of hidden ethnocide. 
B)  are becoming more common. 
C)  contradict Gramsci's theory of hegemony. 
D)  are becoming increasingly rare, due to the cost of this technology. 
E)  suggest that modern technology is always an agent of cultural imperialism.

Question 5

Although acculturation can be applied to any case of cultural contact and change, the term most often has described Westernization, the positive influence of Western expansion that has spread democratic and capitalistic values to those less fortunate.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Cultural meaning is

Accepted Answer

A)  imposed by a text. 
B)  locally created. 
C)  inherent in a text. 
D)  produced by a text, not from it. 
E)  determined only by the author.

Question 7

What is environmental anthropology? What can be its contribution to addressing environmental threats around the world?

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Question 8

________ refers to the rapid spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others, or its imposition on other cultures.

Accepted Answer

A)  Diasporation 
B)  Symbolic domination 
C)  Cultural imperialism 
D)  Conquest 
E)  Colonialism

Question 9

What are some of the arguments for and against the interpretation of the mass media as forms of cultural imperialism?

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Question 10

________ describes the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.

Accepted Answer

A)  Essentialism 
B)  Marketing 
C)  Autochthony 
D)  Patrimony 
E)  Fluidity

Question 11

The last 30 years have seen a dramatic shift in the conditions of indigenous peoples in Latin America, where the drive by indigenous peoples for self-identification has emphasized all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  political reforms involving a restructuring of the state. 
B)  their cultural distinctiveness. 
C)  their autochthony, with an implicit call for excluding strangers from their communities. 
D)  territorial rights and access to natural resources, including control over economic development. 
E)  reforms of military and police powers over indigenous peoples.

Question 12

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that keeps the earth's surface warm. Without greenhouse gases-water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, halocarbons, and ozone-life as we know it wouldn't exist. The current problem is that

Accepted Answer

A)  there are more cooling than warming radiative forcings. 
B)  the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases has reached its highest level in 400,000 years, and this rise has upset the balance of radiative forcings working to warm and cool the earth. 
C)  scientists cannot agree on a general model of how the greenhouse effect went from being a positive to a negative and a life-threatening force. 
D)  global warming actually benefits 90 percent of the world population, so it is difficult to mobilize the will to address the anthropogenic causes of climate change. 
E)  it is difficult to distinguish between climate change and global warming.

Question 13

TV programming that is culturally alien tends to outperform native programming when the alien programming comes from the United States, Great Britain, and France.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Cultural forces are indigenized when native traditions are presented to and appreciated by the former colonialists, who acknowledge these forces as indigenous or native.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

As a vehicle of change, religious proselytizing is a culturally neutral factor.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

What is a text, and how does its reading relate to the role of the individual in popular culture?

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Question 17

Deforestation is a global concern. Forest loss can lead to increased greenhouse gas production, which contributes to global warming. The destruction of tropical forests also is a major factor in the loss of global biodiversity. The global scenarios of deforestation include all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  demographic pressure, from births or immigration, on subsistence economies. 
B)  commercial logging and road building. 
C)  cash cropping. 
D)  the intensification of foraging lifestyles among communities that have retreated from the chaos of modern life. 
E)  fuel needs associated with urban expansion.

Question 18

Mass media can play an important role is constructing and maintaining national and ethnic identities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

One of the challenges that environmental anthropologists face is that risk perception is rarely related to actions that can reduce threat to the environment.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Essentialism describes the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 15: Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Unlike "indigenous peoples," what term, which highlights the prominence that the exclusion of strangers has assumed in day-to-day politics worldwide, has been claimed by majority groups in Europe?

What is the difference between postmodernity and postmodernism? How has postmodernity affected the units of anthropological study?

Ethnoecology is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptions-that is, its cultural model of the environment and its relation to people and society.

Cases where local communities use modern technology to preserve and revise their traditions

Although acculturation can be applied to any case of cultural contact and change, the term most often has described Westernization, the positive influence of Western expansion that has spread democratic and capitalistic values to those less fortunate.

Cultural meaning is

What is environmental anthropology? What can be its contribution to addressing environmental threats around the world?

________ refers to the rapid spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others, or its imposition on other cultures.

What are some of the arguments for and against the interpretation of the mass media as forms of cultural imperialism?

________ describes the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.

The last 30 years have seen a dramatic shift in the conditions of indigenous peoples in Latin America, where the drive by indigenous peoples for self-identification has emphasized all of the following EXCEPT

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that keeps the earth's surface warm. Without greenhouse gases-water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, halocarbons, and ozone-life as we know it wouldn't exist. The current problem is that

TV programming that is culturally alien tends to outperform native programming when the alien programming comes from the United States, Great Britain, and France.

Cultural forces are indigenized when native traditions are presented to and appreciated by the former colonialists, who acknowledge these forces as indigenous or native.

As a vehicle of change, religious proselytizing is a culturally neutral factor.

What is a text, and how does its reading relate to the role of the individual in popular culture?

Mass media can play an important role is constructing and maintaining national and ethnic identities.

One of the challenges that environmental anthropologists face is that risk perception is rarely related to actions that can reduce threat to the environment.

Essentialism describes the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.