Midterm

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  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

C  The belief in spirit beings.

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

A  The belief in spirit beings.

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

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

D  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

D  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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 belief that human mind cannot conceive of the divine.

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

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

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

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

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  The belief in spirit beings.

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

B  were editors of the first anthropological journals.

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

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

A  6,000

B  5,000,000

C  200,000

D  1,800,000

A  the intellectual achievements of our species

B  being woke

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

A  Relativistic perspective

B  Mind theory

C  Comparative perspective

D  Holistic perspective

A  cultural relativism

B  ethnocentrism

C  Diffusion

D  Acculturation

A  videotaping

B  questionnaires

C  participant observation

D  surveys

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  impacts people’s lives

B  can be proven magically

C  can be proven scientifically

D  can be proven historically

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  sweat glands.

C  culture

D  specialized teeth.

A  imitative magic

B  contagious magic

A  creating the first museum

B  introducing the four field approach

C  being the first person to obtain a degree in anthropology

D  forming the first LAVC course

A  6,500,000

B  50,000

C  100,000

D  2,050,000

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

B  natural or supernatural

C  a god or an ancestral spirit

D  an example of witchcraft or of divination

A  renaissance

B  enlightenment

C  creative explosion

D  artistic novus

A  Contagious magic

B  Voodoo

C  Imitative magic

D  Animism

A  animatism

B  animation

C  animism

D  ennui

A  power imbalances

B  linear evolution

C  equal distribution of power

A  Archaeology

B  Physical anthropology

C  Cultural anthropology

D  Phycology

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 is biologically required to be harmful

B  A cultural practice that hurts a lot of people

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

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