FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM

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Question 1: The "mediascape" of globalization refers to...

Answer:

• the flow of media across borders

Question 2: What is the Anthropocene?

Answer:

• A term proposed to describe the current moment (or epoch) in geological time in which the effects of

human activities have altered the fundamental geochemical cycles of the earth.Question 3: To study supernatural beliefs, anthropologists must cultivate a perspective of ____ and strive to understand beliefs from ___ or insider's perspective.

Answer:

• cultural relativism; an emic

Question 4: Approximately what percentage of the world's pastoralists live in Africa?

Answer:

51%`

Question 5: What is another name for development that can meet present needs without damaging the environment or limiting the potential for future generations?

Answer:

sustainable devvelopment

Question 6: In most cultures around the world, marriage is...

Answer:

not the romantic view of marriage found in Hollywood movies and romance novels

• largely a device that links two families together

• a logical vehicle for creating alliances between groups

Question 7: The idea that cultures cannot be objectively understood since all humans see the world through the lens of their own culture is known as...

Answer:

cultural relativism Question 8: Today, __ in ___ people in the world do not have access to adequate nutrition, the most basic element of good health.

Answer:

• in 8

Question 9: In cultural anthropology, fieldwork is referred to as ____ , which is both the process and result of cultural anthropological research.

Answer:

ethnography

Question 10: Humans use material possessions to...

Answer:

meet needs regulate social lives affirm rightful order of things

Question 11: What is a placebo effect?

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A response to treatment that occurs because the person receiving the treatment believes it will work, not because the treatment itself is effective.Question 12: The domestic mode of production organizes labor and daily activities within families according to _____ and ______

Answer:

age and gender

Question 13: What is a personal front or the personal front?

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• Aspects of one's clothing, physical characteristics, comportment, and facial expressions that

communicate an impression to others.Question 14: What is the study of the social use of space, including the amount of space individuals try to maintain around themselves in interactions with others?

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proxemics Question 15: The McDonald's restaurant's "McAloo Tikki" breadcrumb-coated potato and pea patty sandwich in India is an example of ___ or the adaptation of global ideas into locally palatable forms.

Answer:

glocalization

Question 16: Tribes are ___ societies.

Answer:

egalitarian Question 17: What is the study of how meaning is conveyed at the word and phrase level?

Answer:

semantics

Question 18: What is a definition for mass communication?

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• One-to-many communication that privileges the sender and/or owner of the technology that transmits

the media.Question 19: Small-scale, semi-subsistence farmers make up what size group of people on the planet today?

Answer:

• The largest single group of people on the planet today

Question 20: What is medical anthropology?

Answer:

A distinct sub-specialty within the discipline of anthropology.

• investigates human health and health care systems in comparative perspectives.

• considers a wide range of bio-cultural dynamics that affect the well-being of human populations.

Question 21: Cultural rules or expectations emphasizing the need to marry outside a particular group are known as...

Answer:

exogamy

Question 22: What is a culture-bound syndrome?

Answer:

• An illness recognized only within a specific culture

swallowing frogs in brazil or engolir sapos nervos (or nerves in brazil) Question 23: name for an activity that people engage in through their everyday words and actions, which reflect their enculturation and therefore can be studied as performances, regardless of whether the subjects are aware of their cultural significance?

Answer:

• Performing culture