Midterm

A  The belief in spirit beings.

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

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

D  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

C  The belief in spirit beings.

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

A  The belief in spirit beings.

B  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

C  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C  The belief in spirit beings.

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

A  the products of human societies.

B  humans

C  human population patterns.

D  human religion.

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

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

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

D  were editors of the first anthropological journals.

A  200,000

B  6,000

C  5,000,000

D  1,800,000

A  being woke

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

C  the intellectual achievements of our species

A  Comparative perspective

B  Holistic perspective

C  Relativistic perspective

D  Mind theory

A  Diffusion

B  cultural relativism

C  Acculturation

D  ethnocentrism

A  questionnaires

B  videotaping

C  surveys

D  participant observation

A  Describes how cultures organize families.

B  The existence of many cultural definitions.

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

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

A  can be proven historically

B  can be proven scientifically

C  impacts people’s lives

D  can be proven magically

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

B  to prevent the depreciation of their property value.

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

A  True

B  False

A  sweat glands.

B  specialized teeth.

C  culture

D  bipedal locomotion.

A  contagious magic

B  imitative magic

A  introducing the four field approach

B  creating the first museum

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  50,000

D  100,000

A  an example of witchcraft or of divination

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

C  a god or an ancestral spirit

D  natural or supernatural

A  renaissance

B  artistic novus

C  creative explosion

D  enlightenment

A  Voodoo

B  Contagious magic

C  Imitative magic

D  Animism

A  animism

B  animation

C  ennui

D  animatism

A  power imbalances

B  linear evolution

C  equal distribution of power

A  Physical anthropology

B  Phycology

C  Archaeology

D  Cultural anthropology

A  the researchers point of view

B  the historical point of view

C  both historical and economic perspectives

D  the insiders point of view

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

B  A cultural practice that hurts a lot of people

C  A cultural practice that is biologically required to be harmful

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