Midterm

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  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

D  The belief in spirit beings.

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

B  The belief in spirit beings.

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

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

A  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

B  The belief in spirit beings.

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

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

A  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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

B  A major world religion that includes Catholicism and Protestantism.

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

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  The development of religion inspired by the power of nature.

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

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

B  The belief in spirit beings.

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

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

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  human population patterns.

B  human religion.

C  humans

D  the products of human societies.

A  were editors of the first anthropological journals.

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

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

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

A  6,000

B  200,000

C  1,800,000

D  5,000,000

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  Mind theory

B  Comparative perspective

C  Relativistic perspective

D  Holistic perspective

A  cultural relativism

B  Acculturation

C  ethnocentrism

D  Diffusion

A  surveys

B  questionnaires

C  videotaping

D  participant observation

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

D  Describes how cultures organize families.

A  impacts people’s lives

B  can be proven scientifically

C  can be proven historically

D  can be proven magically

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

B  to prevent the depreciation of their property value.

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

A  False

B  True

A  bipedal locomotion.

B  sweat glands.

C  specialized teeth.

D  culture

A  contagious magic

B  imitative magic

A  creating the first museum

B  forming the first LAVC course

C  being the first person to obtain a degree in anthropology

D  introducing the four field approach

A  6,500,000

B  2,050,000

C  50,000

D  100,000

A  natural or supernatural

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

C  an example of witchcraft or of divination

D  a god or an ancestral spirit

A  creative explosion

B  enlightenment

C  renaissance

D  artistic novus

A  Imitative magic

B  Animism

C  Voodoo

D  Contagious magic

A  animism

B  ennui

C  animatism

D  animation

A  linear evolution

B  equal distribution of power

C  power imbalances

A  Phycology

B  Cultural anthropology

C  Archaeology

D  Physical anthropology

A  the historical point of view

B  the insiders point of view

C  both historical and economic perspectives

D  the researchers point of view

A  A cultural practice that hurts a lot of people

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

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

D  A cultural practice that is biologically required to be harmful