Midterm

A  The belief that human mind cannot conceive of the divine.

B  The belief in spirit beings.

C  A cultural structure that typically includes magical belief, ritual, morality, and the building of community

D  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

A  The idea that all types of work fulfill God’s calling

B  The belief that human mind cannot conceive of the divine.

C  The belief in spirit beings.

D  The theoretical approaches that argues that human cultures adapt and change over time.

A  Polynesian/Melanesian word for supernatural force found in nature.

B  The idea that all types of work fulfill God’s calling

C  The belief in spirit beings.

D  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

A  The idea that all types of work fulfill God’s calling

B  Polynesian/Melanesian word for supernatural force found in nature.

C  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

D  The development of religion inspired by the power of nature.

A  Polynesian/Melanesian word for supernatural force found in nature.

B  The development of religion inspired by the power of nature.

C  Theoretical approach that argues that human religion spreads along trade routes.

D  The idea that all types of work fulfill God’s calling

A  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

B  The theoretical approaches that argues that human cultures adapt and change over time.

C  The survival, in some form, of the human soul after death.

D  The idea that all types of work fulfill God’s calling

A  Polynesian/Melanesian word for supernatural force found in nature.

B  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

C  The idea that all types of work fulfill God’s calling

D  A cultural structure that typically includes magical belief, ritual, morality, and the building of community

A  Theoretical approach that argues that human religion spreads along trade routes.

B  The belief that human mind cannot conceive of the divine.

C  Polynesian/Melanesian word for supernatural force found in nature.

D  The development of religion inspired by the power of nature.

A  A cultural structure that typically includes magical belief, ritual, morality, and the building of community

B  The survival, in some form, of the human soul after death.

C  The belief that human mind cannot conceive of the divine.

D  The belief in spirit beings.

A  A cultural structure that typically includes magical belief, ritual, morality, and the building of community

B  The belief that human mind cannot conceive of the divine.

C  The theoretical approaches that argues that human cultures adapt and change over time.

D  The belief in spirit beings.

A  the products of human societies.

B  humans

C  human religion.

D  human population patterns.

A  are trained anthropologist that only do library research for comparative studies.

B  were amateur anthropologists who wrote subjective and ethnocentric cultural reports using unverified accounts.

C  were editors of the first anthropological journals.

D  were important anthropology department chairs that were responsible for the study of culture.

A  6,000

B  5,000,000

C  1,800,000

D  200,000

A  the ideas, traditions, laws, and morals that are learned from our social group and that are passed down the generations.

B  the intellectual achievements of our species

C  being woke

A  Relativistic perspective

B  Comparative perspective

C  Mind theory

D  Holistic perspective

A  Diffusion

B  cultural relativism

C  ethnocentrism

D  Acculturation

A  surveys

B  videotaping

C  participant observation

D  questionnaires

A  The principle that an individual human’s beliefs should be interpreted in terms of his/her own culture.

B  The existence of many cultural definitions.

C  Describes how cultures organize families.

D  It forms the basis of Einstein’s theory of relativity.

A  can be proven magically

B  can be proven historically

C  can be proven scientifically

D  impacts people’s lives

A  to prevent the depreciation of their property value.

B  for ritualistic reasons associated with their understanding of an afterlife.

C  to prevent the rotting bodies from smelling up the place.

A  False

B  True

A  culture

B  specialized teeth.

C  sweat glands.

D  bipedal locomotion.

A  contagious magic

B  imitative magic

A  creating the first museum

B  introducing the four field approach

C  forming the first LAVC course

D  being the first person to obtain a degree in anthropology

A  2,050,000

B  6,500,000

C  100,000

D  50,000

A  a god or an ancestral spirit

B  an example of witchcraft or of divination

C  personal or impersonal ( an impersonal force without identity).

D  natural or supernatural

A  artistic novus

B  enlightenment

C  creative explosion

D  renaissance

A  Voodoo

B  Contagious magic

C  Animism

D  Imitative magic

A  ennui

B  animism

C  animation

D  animatism

A  linear evolution

B  power imbalances

C  equal distribution of power

A  Archaeology

B  Physical anthropology

C  Phycology

D  Cultural anthropology

A  both historical and economic perspectives

B  the historical point of view

C  the insiders point of view

D  the researchers point of view

A  A cultural practice that contradicts a people’s own culturally-specific logic

B  A cultural practice that is biologically required to be harmful

C  A cultural practice that hurts a lot of people

D  A cultural practice that contradicts the Western/European view of reality