Question 1

Anthropology teaches us that the adaptive responses of humans can be more flexible than those of other species because our main adaptive means are

Accepted Answer

A)  biocultural.
B)  ethnocentric.
C)  chosen through free will.
D)  sociocultural.
E)  anthropomorphic. D

Question 2

Although anthropologists may be interested in contemporary global issues such as climate change, their perspective is necessarily limited to the local scale of their fieldwork.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 3

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  False

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Cases of local communities using 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 6

Which is the single greatest obstacle to slowing climate change?

Accepted Answer

A)  the growing population of the poorer nations in the world
B)  proper climatic changes
C)  having scientists decide on a definition of climate change
D)  meeting energy needs, particularly in energy-hungry countries such as the United States, China, and India
E)  a lack of data portraying the effects of climate change

Question 7

Social movements worldwide have adopted the term indigenous people as a self-identifying and political label based on past oppression but are now legitimizing it in the search for social, cultural, and political rights.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

To Arjun Appadurai (1990), "________" describes the linkages in the modern world that have both enlarged and erased old boundaries and distinctions.

Accepted Answer

A)  postmodern
B)  ethnocentric
C)  translocal
D)  essentialized
E)  diasporic

Question 9

Diaspora refers to the hegemonic policy of dominators to isolate individuals who publicly resist from the rest of the population.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Modern technology plays an important role in both facilitating cultural imperialism and resisting it.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

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)  an implicit call for excluding strangers.
D)  limited self government.
E)  sustainable development and political representation.

Question 12

Westernization is a form of what kind of cultural change?

Accepted Answer

A)  exodus
B)  imperialism
C)  acculturation
D)  enculturation
E)  migration

Question 13

Worldwide, concern about environmental and technological risks is more developed in groups that are less endangered by those risks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

How can the perspective of an ethnographer, who carries out research at the local level of communities, contribute to large-scale environmental concerns such as climate change and deforestation?

Accepted Answer

The answer of How can the perspective of an ethnographer,...

Question 15

Unlike indigenous peoples, the term ________ highlights the prominence that the exclusion of strangers has assumed in day-to-day politics worldwide and has been claimed by majority groups in Europe.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

How can mass media play a cultural role for those individuals and families leading transnational lives?

Accepted Answer

The answer of How can mass media play a cultural...

Question 17

Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to

Accepted Answer

A)  find solutions, acknowledging that ecosystems management involves multiple levels.
B)  prescribe top-down solutions to ecological problems.
C)  work closely with state agencies, among whom they do most of their ethnography, to promote institutional change.
D)  contribute to development projects that sometimes, out of necessity, replace indigenous institutions with culturally alien concepts.
E)  promote the concepts of environmental rights, even at the expense of cultural rights.

Question 18

Scientists prefer the term climate change to global warming.Climate change points out that, beyond rising temperatures, there have been changes in sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What is the name of the Brazilian danceplay that reenacts the Portuguese discovery of Brazil?

Accepted Answer

A)  Arembepeiros
B)  Chegança
C)  Parantins
D)  Carnaval
E)  Dia do Descobrimento

Question 20

The term indigenous people gained legitimacy within international law with the creation in 1982 of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 15: Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Anthropology teaches us that the adaptive responses of humans can be more flexible than those of other species because our main adaptive means are

Although anthropologists may be interested in contemporary global issues such as climate change, their perspective is necessarily limited to the local scale of their fieldwork.

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

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

Cases of local communities using modern technology to preserve and revise their traditions

Which is the single greatest obstacle to slowing climate change?

Social movements worldwide have adopted the term indigenous people as a self-identifying and political label based on past oppression but are now legitimizing it in the search for social, cultural, and political rights.

To Arjun Appadurai (1990) , "________" describes the linkages in the modern world that have both enlarged and erased old boundaries and distinctions.

Diaspora refers to the hegemonic policy of dominators to isolate individuals who publicly resist from the rest of the population.

Modern technology plays an important role in both facilitating cultural imperialism and resisting it.

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

Westernization is a form of what kind of cultural change?

Worldwide, concern about environmental and technological risks is more developed in groups that are less endangered by those risks.

How can the perspective of an ethnographer, who carries out research at the local level of communities, contribute to large-scale environmental concerns such as climate change and deforestation?

Unlike indigenous peoples, the term ________ highlights the prominence that the exclusion of strangers has assumed in day-to-day politics worldwide and has been claimed by majority groups in Europe.

How can mass media play a cultural role for those individuals and families leading transnational lives?

Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to

Scientists prefer the term climate change to global warming.Climate change points out that, beyond rising temperatures, there have been changes in sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects.

What is the name of the Brazilian danceplay that reenacts the Portuguese discovery of Brazil?

The term indigenous people gained legitimacy within international law with the creation in 1982 of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.