Understanding Applied Anthropology: L14 Quiz Insights

L14 Quiz Score for this quiz: 30 out of 40 * Question 1 3 / 3 pts Described in this week's readings, the Malagasy development program described in this chapter illustrates the importance of: replacing subsistence farming with a viable cash crop. the local government's ability to improve the lives of its citizens, when committed to doing so. the top-down strategies developed by the UN. breaking down corporate descent groups, which are too independent and interfere with development. replacing outdated traditional techniques of irrigation with more modern ones. Question 2 3 / 3 pts Development projects should aim to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT: respecting local traditions. preserving local systems while working to make them better. promoting change, but not overinnovation.

developing strategies with little input from the local communities. drawing models of development from indigenous practices. Question 3 3 / 3 pts Which of the following is NOT an appropriate responsibility or function for an applied anthropologist? Working as participant observers, taking part in the events they study in order to understand local thought and behavior. Advocating for local cultural values above the values of all other people. Working with people to design culturally appropriate and socially sensitive change. Protecting local people from harmful policies and projects that might threaten them. Figuring out which areas of change are perceived of as important to local people. Question 4 3 / 3 pts Which of the following was NOT part of Gerald Murray’s plan to encourage rural Haitian peasants to plant trees in an effort to slow down the process of deforestation?

Work through local representatives and NGO's to ensure implementation of the project. Provide small seedlings to farmers that could be planted quickly and easily. Provide money to large Haitian institutions so that they could run the program. Provide an economic rationale that peasants could use to judge the merits of the program on their own, by introducing the trees as cash crops owned by peasants themselves. Question 5 3 / 3 pts All of the following illustrates the kinds of work that applied anthropologists do except: borrowing from fields such as history and sociology to broaden the scope of theoretical anthropology. using the tools of medical anthropology to work as cultural interpreters in public health programs. helping the Environmental Protection Agency address environmental problems. working for or with international development agencies, such as the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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applying the tools of forensic anthropology to work with police, medical examiners, the courts, and international organizations to identify victims of crimes, accidents, wars, and terrorism. Question 6 3 / 3 pts Shamans and other magico-religious specialists are effective curers with regard to what kind of disease theory? scientific personalistic ritualistic exotic naturalistic Question 7 3 / 3 pts According to the definition in the textbook, an illness is a scientifically identified health threat caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, or other pathogen. True False Question 8

3 / 3 pts Biomedicine, which aims to link an illness to scientifically demonstrated agents that bear no personal malice toward their victims, is an example of naturalistic medicine. True False Question 9 3 / 3 pts __________________ is the term for the neoliberal policy that requires countries receiving international aid loans to cut social programs and to reduce subsidies for local business and industry. Question 10 3 / 3 pts ______________________ refers to the tendency to view less developed countries as more alike than they are. Question 11 Not yet graded / 10 pts In the lesson commentary, you were introduced to the concept of "structural violence" in the context of the work of Paul Farmer. What is structural violence? Provide two examples from your textbook or lesson commentary readings that illustrate this concept. (note: you cannot use the examples from Paul Farmer's own research as examples) Your Answer: Structural Violence is coined to be the shocking differences amongst different peoples, groups, cultures, and how living is drastically different in these parts. It can be great and well off in one part of a country and then deplorable in another part. Even necessities such as food, shelter, water, and health care vary from place to place. An example of this is the vast Structural A Underdiffere

differences in access to medical care across many places, not just poor countries or people, such as Haiti, as Farmer referenced.

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