Anthropology – Flashcards

Ethnicity means identification with

An anthropological understanding of ethnicity and race requires exploring how people and institutions define, negotiate, and even challenge their identities in society. One way anthropologists and social scientist in general do this is by studying status, which refers to

What is an ascribed status? A status that

Depending on the situation, the same man might declare: "Im Jimmy's father"; "Im your boss"; "Im African American"; or "Im your professor". This phenomenon, whereby a persons claimed or perceived identity varies depending on context, is called

Race, like ethnicity in general, is

Which of the following statements about purported attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories based on common ancestry is true? They are

In theory, a biological race is a geographically isolated subdivision of a species. Humanity (Homo sapiens) lacks such races because

What term refers to an organisms evident traits, its "manifest biology"?

In understanding the problems that have arisen in attempts at human racial classification, why is it important to understand the difference between genotype and phenotype?

An examination of racial taxonomies from around the world indicates that

In the early 20th century, the anthropologist Franz Boas described changes in skull conformation among the children of Europeans who had emigrated to North America. He found that the reason for these changes could not be explained by genetics. His findings underscore the fact that

Traditional racial classification assumed that biological characteristics such as skin color were determined by heredity and remain stable over many generations. We know that

Which of the folioing is the most likely reason for the dark skin color shared by topical Africans and southern Indians?

East Asians who have immigrated recently from India and Pakistan to northern areas of the Unitied Kingdom have a higher incidence of rickets and osteoporosis than the general British population. This phenomenon illustrates that

Which of the following statements about human skin color is not true?

In 1998, the American Anthropological Association issued a statement on race. This statements makes all of the following points except that

Which of the following statements about ethnicity is true?

Which of the following statements about U.S. racial categories is true? They are

What is the term for the arbitrary rule that automatically places the children of a union between members of different socioeconomic groups into the less privileged group?

Organizations in the United States such as the National Association for the advancement of colored people and the national council of La Raza, a hispanic advocacy group, have opposed adding a "multiracial'' census category. this suggests that

In Japan, the burakumin

Which of the following statements about the concept of race in Brazil is not true?

Which of the following is a major difference between Brazilian and U.S. racial taxonomies?

What term refers to a culture that shares a single language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship?

What is the term for ethnicgroups that once had, or witsh to have or regain, autonomous political status?

What term describes a complex sociopolitical system that administers a territory and populace having substantial contrasts in occupation, wealth, prestige, and power?

Nation-states

Ethnic groups that once had, or wish to have or regain, autonomous political stays-their own country--are called

What term does anthropologist Fredrik Barth use to refer to a society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and the economic interdependence of those groups?

According to Fredrik Barth's theories about ethnic identity, when are ethnic boundaries most stable? When

the presence of ethnic neighborhoods indicates what kind of coexistence?

What is the term for policies and practices that harm a coup and its members?

A policy of ethnic expulsion aims at removing from a country groups who are culturally different. There are many examples, including Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s; Uganda expelling 74,000 Asians in 1972, and so on. The neofascist parties of contemporary western Europe advocate the repatriation of immigrant workers. What is one of the potential consequences of such policies?

What is the term for the use of force by a dominant group to compel a minority to adopt the dominate culture?

The Basque people, one of Europe's most distinctive ethnic groups, have maintained a strong ethnic identity and a language that is unrelated to any other known language. However, Basque faces the same pressures all minority languages do:

What term refers to the destruction of the culture of an ethnic group