Midterm

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

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 in spirit beings.

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

D  The belief in spirit beings.

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

B  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

C  The belief in spirit beings.

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

A  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

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

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 idea that all types of work fulfill God’s calling

B  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

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

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 development of religion inspired by the power of nature.

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

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 in spirit beings.

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

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

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 products of human societies.

B  human religion.

C  human population patterns.

D  humans

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

B  were editors of the first anthropological journals.

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

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

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  being woke

C  the intellectual achievements of our species

A  Holistic perspective

B  Relativistic perspective

C  Mind theory

D  Comparative perspective

A  ethnocentrism

B  Acculturation

C  cultural relativism

D  Diffusion

A  videotaping

B  participant observation

C  surveys

D  questionnaires

A  Describes how cultures organize families.

B  The existence of many cultural definitions.

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

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

A  can be proven magically

B  can be proven historically

C  impacts people’s lives

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  True

B  False

A  bipedal locomotion.

B  culture

C  specialized teeth.

D  sweat glands.

A  imitative magic

B  contagious magic

A  creating the first museum

B  being the first person to obtain a degree in anthropology

C  introducing the four field approach

D  forming the first LAVC course

A  100,000

B  50,000

C  2,050,000

D  6,500,000

A  natural or supernatural

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

C  a god or an ancestral spirit

D  an example of witchcraft or of divination

A  artistic novus

B  renaissance

C  creative explosion

D  enlightenment

A  Voodoo

B  Contagious magic

C  Animism

D  Imitative magic

A  animism

B  ennui

C  animation

D  animatism

A  power imbalances

B  equal distribution of power

C  linear evolution

A  Physical anthropology

B  Cultural anthropology

C  Phycology

D  Archaeology

A  the researchers point of view

B  the insiders point of view

C  the historical point of view

D  both historical and economic perspectives

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 hurts a lot of people

D  A cultural practice that is biologically required to be harmful