Test Answers on Anthro – Flashcard
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Language
The system of arbitrary symbols used to encode one’s experience of the world and of others is:
Linguistics
The scientific study of language is known as:
True
T/F Language is a biocultural phenomenon
Body Gestures
Kinesics refers to:
Closed
What type of system is the call system of monkeys and apes?
Phonemes
Refers more to sounds rather than meaning
Communicative competence
The ability of native speakers of a language to use words in ways that are socially and culturally appropriate is called:
The linguistic relativity principle
The principle which asserts that language has the power to shape the way people see the world:
Pragmatics
The study of the way speakers of a language actually use the language to communicate with one another (study of language in context)
Ethnopragmatics
The study of language (in a broader context) that uses ethnography to illuminate the ways in which speech and social interaction influence each other is called:
Pidgin
What type of language develops in a single generation?
Summarizing
Which type of symbols provide people with categories for thinking about how their world is organized?
Art
Play with form:
Myths
Stories about the way of the world are called:
Rite of Passage
A ritual that marks the movement of an individual from one social position to another:
False
T/F Religion deals with reality available to the senses.
Shamans
Part time religious practitioners
Magic
Set of beliefs and practices designed to control the visible or invisible world for specific purposes:
Oracles
Invisible forces to which people address questions and receive answers:
Coping with Change
Syncretism, Revitalization, and nativistic movements all involve:
Revitalization
An attempt to create a more satisfying culture in a time of crisis is known as a
So True
T/F Economic, Political, and human relations are key domains of social orginization
Production, distribution, consumption
Three phases of economic activity are:
Centralized social orginization
Redistribution requires some form of:
Reciprocity
Generalized, balanced, and negative are types of:
Relations of:
Which aspect of production would focus on linking people and modes of production?
Consumption
Internal, external, and culturally patterned are explanations for:
Internal
Which explanation of consumption (by Malinowski) emphasized human dependence on physical world for survival?
Most of the world’s populations
Anthropologists understand there is a negative impact of contemporary economic institutions on whom?
Political anthropology
The study of social power in human society is called:
Power and Inequality
Anthropology in politics are concerned with:
Social power
Interpersonal, Organizational, and structural are modes of:
Persuasion and social obligations
Societies without states rely on the power of:
Very True
T/F “Ideology” refers to “world view” such as that which justifies the social arrangements under which people live is called
Hegemony
Rulers who provide genuine benefits to their subjects, spread an ideology and still succeed in protecting their position.
