Anthropology Quiz: Kula Ring, Livelihoods, and Fieldwork Challenges

n 1 5 / 5 points __________ examined the Trobriand Island kula ring. Question options: a) Claude Levi-Strauss b) Bronislaw Malinowski c) Richard Kurin d) Franz Boas on 5 / po A case study of a Taiwanese factory in South Africa found that the main reason for South African workers' resentment against the Taiwanese managers is: Question options: a) the exploitative wages. b) the failure to provide a lunchroom where management and workers ate together. c) the Taiwanese way of organizing production based on Taiwanese hierarchical kinship structures. d) the excessively long work hours without a break. on 5 / po The study of a location-based social network in China is an example of: Question options: a) qualitative data. b) emic analysis.

c) computational anthropology. d) mixed methods. on 0 / po One effect of industrial agriculture is: Question options: a) that capitalization increases the ability of small farmers to adapt quickly to the changing market. b) the use of complex technology provides an advantage to larger landowners. c) the global market stabilizes nitrate and fuel prices and acts as a safety net for farmers. d) that modern technology has improved the yield in calorie terms for the amount of resources used in farming. on 0 / po Given current globalization and the rarity of small, isolated cultures, many contemporary cultural anthropologists have abandoned: Question options: a) learning a non-Western language. b) the concept of holism. c) the concept of cultural relativism. d) participant observation. on 0 / po Trobriand women's most prized material items are: Question options:

a) skirts. b) pigs. c) shell necklaces. d) grass mats. on 0 / po Children have the most tasks in which mode of livelihood? Question options: Wrong Answer a) Pastoralism b) Industrialism/digital economy c) Intensive agriculture d) Horticulture on 5 / po Before they began migrating to settlement areas for work on rubber plantations, the Mundurucu of the Amazon relied mainly on which mode of livelihood? Question options: WRONG ANSWER a) Foraging b) Horticulture c) Pastoralism d) Agriculture

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on 5 / po Which culture depends mainly on pastoralism for its livelihood? Question options: WRONG ANSWER a) Hare b) Mundurucu c) Yanomami d) Qashqa'i on 0 / po During his fieldwork in Pakistan, a major challenge for Richard Kurin was:WRONG ANSWER Question options: a) learning proper rules of gift exchange. b) false role assignments. c) learning the language. d) not having a wife or children, which would have made him an "adult." on 5 / po During his fieldwork in Japan, Matthews Hamabata had a problem with: Question options: a) learning to appreciate the food.

b) learning when to smile and when not to smile. c) having to sit for long periods of time with his legs folded underneath him. d) how to understand the meaning of a gift given to him and the appropriate response. on 5 / po One thing about which most cultural anthropologists agree is: Question options: a) that anthropologists should study primarily people's thoughts and ideas. b) the definition of culture. c) the importance of doing fieldwork. d) whether anthropological fieldwork should proceed inductively or deductively. on 5 / po Compared to temperate-climate foragers, circumpolar foragers: Question options: a) rely more on plant food. b) spend less time and energy on constructing shelters. c) spend less time and energy procuring food. d) have a more sharply differentiated gender division of labor. on 5 / po

According to the code of ethics of the American Anthropological Association, the anthropologist's first responsibility is to: Question options: a) protect the people studied from harm related to the research. b) the agency that funded the study since they are the ones who paid for it. c) the home country of the anthropologist. d) the host government in the country where the research is conducted. on 5 / po Research that is guided by a hypothesis is: Question options: a) emic. b) deductive. c) holistic. d) inductive. on 5 / po Compared to family farming, corporate farming is: Question options: a) more geared to production for sale. b) less reliant on capital. c) declining in importance as an economic system in the United States.

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d) more energy-efficient. on 5 / po Liza Dalby's research among the geisha of Japan involved the study of a microculture based on which factor? Question options: a) Class b) "Race"/ethnicity c) Gender d) Religion on 5 / po On the basis of his experience in the Trobriand Islands during World War I, Bronislaw Malinowski is generally considered to be the: Question options: a) founder of the etic approach. b) "father" of participant observation. c) first person to realize that no culture is more or less "civilized" than another. d) first person to do fieldwork in his own culture. on 5 / po Among the Hare Indians, the most important animals are: Question options:

a) dogs. b) horses. c) sheep. d) dogs and horses. on 5 / po The gender division of labor in the agricultural mode of livelihood: Question options: a) is the most egalitarian of all modes of livelihood. b) involves highly overlapping tasks for males and females in most societies. c) means that men work more hours and women work fewer than in horticulture. d) is more segregated than in temperate foraging societies. Done

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