Anthropology 2
Cultural Anthropology

Jorge Sanchez

Assignment 4: Chapters 10 through 12

Due Date: July 12, 2002
send answers via e-mail to jsanchez@hartnell.cc.ca.us by midnight of due date!

1. You belong to a patrilineal descent group. Which of the following belong to the same group?

  1. your mother
  2. your father's sister
  3. your mother's sister
  4. your mother's father
  5. your father's sister's children

2. Descent groups

  1. are economic units providing mutual aid.
  2. provide social security for elderly members.
  3. often promote solidarity by encouraging worship of the group's ancestors.
  4. play a role in deciding appropriate marriage partners.
  5. all of the above.

3. Members of a moiety

  1. belong to one of two major descent groups in a society.
  2. are those who are divorced (they lack their "better half").
  3. are usually able to trace their exact genealogical links to their common ancestor.
  4. feel a much stronger feeling of kinship than is felt by members of a lineage or clan.
  5. belong to a group that is smaller than a lineage.

4. In the ____________ system of kinship terminology, ego's father, father's brother, and mother's brother are all referred to by the same term, and ego's mother, mother's sister, and father's sister are all referred to by the same term; the term "brother" includes the ego's brothers as well as male cousins.

  1. Iroquois
  2. Crow
  3. Omaha
  4. Hawaiian
  5. Eskimo

5. The descriptive system of kinship terminology

  1. gives the same kinship term for ego's mother's brother and father's brother.
  2. is the most common form of kinship terminology.
  3. gives a separate term for each kind of cousin.
  4. is the least precise of all the kinship systems.
  5. indicates that all of ego's siblings have the same social status.

6. The following ____________ are passed through by members of North American culture: toddler, teenager, senior citizen.

  1. age grades
  2. age sets
  3. social classes
  4. castes
  5. open classes

7. A society composed of several groups that differ in their access to resources and prestige is said to be

  1. stratified.
  2. unfair.
  3. immoral.
  4. egalitarian.
  5. open.

8. The ability to change one's class position is

  1. an open class.
  2. egalitarian.
  3. social mobility.
  4. indicative of common-interest societies.
  5. inevitable.

9. Which of the following are the three main groups in Rwandan society?

  1. the Nuer, Azande, and Mende
  2. the Kapauku, Kaluli, and the Karumba
  3. Twa, Hutu, and Tutsi
  4. Yoruba, Swazi, and Tsembaga
  5. Shuar, Yanomani, and Toda

10. Anthropologist ____________ was hired to carry out a social impact assessment of a water diversion project in New Mexico.

  1. Sue Ellen Jacobs
  2. Harald Prins
  3. Alan Kolata
  4. Margaret Boone
  5. Fred Plog

11. The term "government" may be defined as

  1. a kinship-based age set.
  2. those aspects of social organization concerned with coordination and regulation of public behavior.
  3. the informal leadership of a Ju/'hoansi hunter-gatherer band.
  4. a common-interest association focusing on political events.
  5. an administrative system having specialized personnel.

12. The "leopard-skin chief" among the Nuer

  1. is the head of the larges and most powerful clan.
  2. is the head of the dominant matrilineage.
  3. has the authority to force feuding lineages to accept "blood cattle" and stop feuding.
  4. is the totem of one of the Nuer lineages.

13. In a chiefdom, an individual's status is determined by membership in a

  1. government.
  2. social class.
  3. bureaucracy.
  4. descent group.
  5. secret society.

14. The functions of law include

  1. the definition of proper behavior in particular circumstances so that everyone is clear about their rights and duties.
  2. protecting the wealthy from the poor.
  3. redefining what is proper behavior when situations change.
  4. allocating authority to use coercion to enforce sanctions.
  5. all but b.

15. The field of ____________ is one of growing anthropological involvement and employment.

  1. ethnoscience
  2. ethnology
  3. dispute control
  4. dispute management
  5. assertiveness training

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