Anthropology 2
Cultural Anthropology

Jorge Sanchez

Assignment 5: Chapters 13 through 15

Due Date: July 19, 2002
send answers via e-mail to jsanchez@hartnell.cc.ca.us by midnight of due date!

1. A ____________ is a full-time religious specialist who occupies an office that has a certain rank and function.

  1. shaman
  2. priest
  3. witch
  4. magician
  5. diviner

2. The Golden Bough, ____________ distinguished between religion and magic.

  1. Bronislaw Malinowski
  2. Franz Boas
  3. Sir James Frazer
  4. Sir Edward Tylor
  5. Clifford Geertz

3. Religion, magic, and witchcraft are all SIMILAR in which of the following ways?

  1. They all disappear once modern education and scientific training expand.
  2. They all share the common goal of improving social relationships within a community.
  3. They ara all associated with morose nonconformists who try to destroy society.
  4. They provide explanations of events and are mechanisms of social control.
  5. they are all morally neutral.

4. A ____________ is a deliberate effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture.

  1. divination
  2. rite of intensification
  3. fetish
  4. segmentary lineage system
  5. revitalization movement

5. In southern Africa's Swaziland all types of illnesses are generally thought to be caused by ____________ or ____________.

  1. viruses/bacteria
  2. negative karma/negative attitude
  3. sorcery/loss of ancestral protection
  4. poor hygiene/poverty
  5. none of the above

6. Whether useful or nonuseful, all art is an expression of

  1. the innate need to be impractical.
  2. a fundamental human capacity for religious expression.
  3. state-level societies that can afford specialists.
  4. political domination of minorities by elites.
  5. the symbolic representation of form and the expression of feeling that constitutes creativity.

7. The type of verbal arts that has/have received the most study and attention is/are

  1. poetry.
  2. incantations.
  3. narratives.
  4. proverbs.
  5. riddles.

8. Because legends contain details of a people's past, they are a form of history; because they often give a picture of a people's view of the world and humanity's place in it, they are like

  1. poetry.
  2. religion.
  3. magic.
  4. kinship systems.
  5. myths.

9. Scale systems and their modifications in music are called

  1. tonality.
  2. ethnomusicology.
  3. sculpture.
  4. verbal arts.
  5. pentatonic.

10. Amongst the Kalahari groups of the 1950's and 1960's, about half of the men and a third of the women were

  1. rock artists.
  2. shaman.
  3. hunters.
  4. gatherers.
  5. chiefs.

11. The chance discovery of some new principle that can be applied in a variety of ways is called

  1. primary innovation.
  2. primary syncretism.
  3. applied anthropology.
  4. millenarism.
  5. diffusion.

12. According to the North American anthropologist Ralph Linton, about 90 percent of any culture's content comes from

  1. primary innovation.
  2. diffusion.
  3. invention.
  4. syncretism.
  5. revolution.

13. The field of applied anthropology developed

  1. through efforts to help the poor in North American society.
  2. in sociology classrooms.
  3. in industry.
  4. in colonial situations.
  5. through the efforts of women opposed to prohibition.

14. The term "modernization"

  1. is a relativistic rather than ethnocentric concept.
  2. refers to the process of cultural and socioeconomic change whereby societies acquire the characteristics of industrialized societies.
  3. refers to a global and all-encompassing process whereby modern cities gradually deteriorate.
  4. can be used to show that all societies go through the same stages of evolutionary development, culminating in the urban-industrial state.
  5. is not used by anthropologists.

15. The most common pattern characterizing violence against indigenous people in Brazil is/are

  1. racism.
  2. impunity (guilty party gets away with crime).
  3. massacres.
  4. illegal detention.
  5. police brutality.

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