Anthropology 2
Cultural Anthropology

Jorge Sanchez

Assignment 2: Chapters 4 through 6

Due Date: June 28, 2002
send answers via e-mail to jsanchez@hartnell.cc.ca.us by midnight of due date!

1. A system of communication based on symbols is called a

  1. signal.
  2. form class.
  3. language.
  4. frame substitution.
  5. vocalization.

2. Paralanguage is to speech as ____________ is to position of the body.

  1. kinesics
  2. ethnolinguistics
  3. form class
  4. phonetics
  5. displacement

3. Kinesics is a method for notating and analyzing

  1. screeming.
  2. kissing.
  3. any form of body "language."
  4. fighting.
  5. food.

4. A language family is a group of languages that

  1. all have the same core vocabulary.
  2. all subordinate to a dominant language.
  3. all have the same syntax.
  4. use the same number of sounds.
  5. are descended from a single ancestral language.

5. The influence of a person's class status on what pronunciation he/she uses; a speaker's choice of more complicated vocabulary and grammar when he/she is speaking to a professional audience; the influence of language on culture - all these are the concerns of

  1. descriptive linguistics.
  2. historical linguistics.
  3. ethnolinguistics.
  4. linguistic nationalism.
  5. displacement.

6. Enculturation is the process of transmitting

  1. society from one generation to the next.
  2. social norms from one adult to another.
  3. culture from one child to another.
  4. culture from one generation to the next.
  5. personality from parent to child.

7. In studying three societies in New Guniea, Margaret Mead found that the role played by men and women were determined primarily by

  1. genes.
  2. biology.
  3. culture.
  4. incest.
  5. the food they ate.

8. Dependence training is more likely in

  1. nuclear families.
  2. societies whose subsistence is based on pastoralism.
  3. a food-foraging society.
  4. extended families in societies whose economy is based on subsistence farming.
  5. industrial societies.

9. The term "core values" refers to

  1. those aspects of culture that pertain to the way a culture makes its living.
  2. rules that guide family and home life.
  3. those values emphasized by a particular culture.
  4. common shares in Golden Delicious Corp.
  5. the beliefs streesed by a particular political party.

10. As ____________ pioneering studies suggested, whatever biological differences may exist between men and women, they are extremely malleable.

  1. Ruth Benedict's
  2. Karen Sack's
  3. Deborah Tannen's
  4. Margaret Mead's
  5. Laura Nader's

11. Adaptation refers to the

  1. process by which organisms modify and adjust to their environment and thereby survive more effectively.
  2. ability of one population to destroy another.
  3. borrowing of cultural material from another society.
  4. process by which living systems change from birth to death.
  5. effect of child-rearing practices on basic personality structure.

12. A culture type is defined by

  1. the geographic area in which a people live.
  2. the kind of technology that a group has to exploit a particular environment.
  3. contacts with other cultures.
  4. sharing the same values.
  5. sharing the same language.

13. Which of the following research topics might be of interest to an ethnoscientist?

  1. how the allele responsible for sickle-cell anemia increases or decreases in certain cultural environments, such as a horticultural vs. hunting-gathering.
  2. similarities and differences in the farming patterns of Southwest Asian and Mesoamerica.
  3. The ways in which a group classifies and explains the world; for example, the Tsembaga avoid low-lying, marshy areas filled with mosquitoes that carry malaria because they believe that such areas are inhibited by red spirits who punish trespassers.
  4. reconstruction and comparison of archaeological sites in similar geographic regions
  5. all of the above

14. Someone who uses irrigation, fertilizers, and the plow to produce food on large plots of land is known as a/an

  1. horticulturalist.
  2. intensive agriculturalist.
  3. pastoralist.
  4. hunter-gatherer.
  5. industrialist.

15. After three years of tending their gardens the Mekranoti are left with only

  1. manoic.
  2. sweet potatoes.
  3. pineapple.
  4. tobacco.
  5. bananas.

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