Midterm

A  The belief in spirit beings.

B  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

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

B  The belief in spirit beings.

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

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

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

B  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

C  The belief in spirit beings.

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

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

B  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

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  Polynesian/Melanesian word for supernatural force found in nature.

B  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D  The belief in spirit beings.

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

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

C  The belief in spirit beings.

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

A  humans

B  human population patterns.

C  human religion.

D  the products of human societies.

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

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

C  were editors of the first anthropological journals.

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

A  1,800,000

B  6,000

C  5,000,000

D  200,000

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  Mind theory

B  Comparative perspective

C  Relativistic perspective

D  Holistic perspective

A  ethnocentrism

B  Acculturation

C  Diffusion

D  cultural relativism

A  surveys

B  questionnaires

C  videotaping

D  participant observation

A  Describes how cultures organize families.

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

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

D  The existence of many cultural definitions.

A  impacts people’s lives

B  can be proven historically

C  can be proven magically

D  can be proven scientifically

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

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

C  to prevent the depreciation of their property value.

A  False

B  True

A  bipedal locomotion.

B  specialized teeth.

C  sweat glands.

D  culture

A  imitative magic

B  contagious magic

A  introducing the four field approach

B  forming the first LAVC course

C  creating the first museum

D  being the first person to obtain a degree in anthropology

A  50,000

B  2,050,000

C  6,500,000

D  100,000

A  a god or an ancestral spirit

B  natural or supernatural

C  an example of witchcraft or of divination

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

A  renaissance

B  creative explosion

C  artistic novus

D  enlightenment

A  Contagious magic

B  Imitative magic

C  Animism

D  Voodoo

A  animatism

B  animism

C  animation

D  ennui

A  equal distribution of power

B  linear evolution

C  power imbalances

A  Phycology

B  Cultural anthropology

C  Archaeology

D  Physical 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 the Western/European view of reality

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

C  A cultural practice that is biologically required to be harmful

D  A cultural practice that hurts a lot of people