Trobriand Islands and Cultural Anthropology Quiz Questions

n 1 5 / Trobriand women's most prized material items are: Question options: a) skirts. b) pigs. c) shell necklaces. d) grass mats. on 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 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 Children have the most tasks in which mode of livelihood? Question options: a) Pastoralism b) Industrialism/digital economy c) Intensive agriculture d) Horticulture on Among the Hare Indians, the most important animals are: Question options: a) dogs. b) horses. c) sheep. d) dogs and horses. on 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 A cause of change in the family farming system of the Maya in Chiapas, Mexico, was: Question options: a) increased dependence on corn as a crop. b) the construction of roads. c) privatization of land ownership. d) decreased government spending on infrastructure. on When Tony Whitehead, an African American anthropologist, did fieldwork in Jamaica, he was surprised that: Question options: a) he was unable to speak easily with the people because of his American English. b) people thought he was much older than he was. c) people assigned him to a high status. d) people expected him to bring his family with him and found it difficult to accept him as a lone male.

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on The country in which the so-called Jarawa people live is: Question options: a) Papua New Guinea. b) India. c) Brazil. d) Indonesia. on 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 Which culture depends mainly on pastoralism for its livelihood? Question options: a) Hare b) Mundurucu

c) Yanomami d) Qashqa'i on __________ examined the Trobriand Island kula ring. Question options: a) Claude Levi-Strauss b) Bronislaw Malinowski c) Richard Kurin d) Franz Boas on 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. on The two most important factors on which the division of labor is based in horticultural societies are: Question options:

a) age and race. b) gender and race. c) age and gender. d) gender and class. on In the Trobriand Islands, the British colonialists substituted which activity for local warfare? Question options: a) Christianity b) The Kula c) Boat racing d) Cricket on 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

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on 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 Inuit place naming is an example of: Question options: a) indigenous knowledge. b) cultural relativism. c) globalization. d) leveling mechanism. on 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 Compared to family farming, corporate farming is: This one wrong 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. d) more energy-efficient.

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