Culture and Film Quizzes 6-10 – Flashcards
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According to Kottak (Ch. 5),______ is a characteristic of most foraging societies.
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Egalitarianism
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According to Kottak (Ch. 5), means of production include
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land, labor, and technology
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According to Kottak (Ch. 5), when an individual gives something to someone else but expects nothing in return, this is an example:
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Generalized Reciprocity
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According to Kottak (Ch. 6), in band societies,______ determines the amount of respect or status that an individual enjoys.
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Culturally valued personal attributes
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According to Kottak (Ch. 6), social scientists use the term _______ to refer to the socially approved use of power.
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Authority
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According to Kottak (ch. 6),______ is the most important factor in determining an individual's power and prestige in a state.
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socioeconomic class
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According to Tomaselli, names and naming matter because:
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calling a group by a particular name implies certain ideological and political positions
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According to Tomaselli, the myth perpetuated by films like "The Gods Must be Crazy" is that:
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The "Bushmen" live in a pristine, wild condition of primitive affluence
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According to Tomaselli, the only filmmaker to be concerned about the material conditions in which the Kung were living was:
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John Marshall
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According to Kottak (ch. 7), the relatively high incidence of expanded family households among poorer North Americans is:
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an adaptation to poverty
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According to Kottak (Ch. 7), the incest taboo is a cultural universal, but:
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not all cultures define incest the same way
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According to Kottak (ch. 7), ________ is the postmarital residence pattern in which a married couple is expected to live in the husband's community
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Patrilocality
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According to Chagnon, intervillage warfare among the Yanomamo:
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affects all aspects of all social organization and settlement patterns
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According to Chagnon, one of his difficulties with eating was that:
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the Yanomamo expected him to reciprocate gifts of food with tools or weapons
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According to Chagnon, he had to travel to many villages during his fieldwork because:
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fissioning meant that each village had its own version of events and its own geneologies
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According to Borofsky, the Yanomamo controversy:
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allows the critical examination of issues at the heart of anthropology
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According to Borofsky, Napoleon Chagnon:
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is a good writer and a dedicated field worker
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According to Borofsky, the Yanomami controversy is important for anthropology because:
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it has asked anthropologists to consider inequalities of power, informed consent, and just compensation
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According to Kottak (Ch. 10), most anthropologists agree that race is:
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socially constructed as a way to create hierarchies
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According to Kottak (ch. 10), the process by which minority ethnic groups or immigrants must abandon their cultural practices and values to take up those of the dominant group is called:
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Assimilation
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According to Kottak (Ch. 10), ethnic differences can often lead to conflict and violence. Which of the following is an example of oppression rooted in ethnic differentiation?
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all of the above (Discrimination, Forced expulsion, and Genocide)
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According to Scott in "Chapter 1: Hills, Valleys, and States," what is a shatter zone?
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a zone of refuge on the margins of a state where people go to evade state rule or opression
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Where is Zomia?
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Southeast Africa
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In Scott's Chapter, which of the following is NOT a technique of people living in Zomia?
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linguistic uniformity
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Which of the following most closely resembles Scott's basic arguent about tribal groups in shatter zones?
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Tribal people specifically choose to live at the margins because they value equality and flexible social structure more than state governance
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In the review by Moon and Talley, which of the following is NOT a technique of shatter zones evident in the film Winter's Bone?
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Gender Equality
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According to Moon and Talley, how do Ree Dolly and the relatives exhibit animism in "Winter's Bone" ?
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All of the above (they display fresh Butchered meat, they keep relics of animal parts as decorations, and they wear clothing with totem-animal designs
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In "Cities, People, and Language," according to Scott, which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the geometric order of modern cities?
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as a result of the increase in administrative efficiency, citizens "worship" the state
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In "Cities, People, and Language," Scott argues that surnames:
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are a state project of standardization and legibility
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In "Cities, People, and Language," Scott argues that the goal of the modern state is:
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all of the above (to reduce the chaotic social reality beneath it to something more closely resembling the administrative grid of its observations, to standardize and make legible its subject population, and utopian)
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In what way(s) could the world of drug dealers in East Harlem as described by Bourgouis be considered a shatter zone?
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dealers have subsistence routines that maximize resistance to appropriation or state incorporation through the underground economy
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Which of the following statements would Bourgouis most likely agree with about poverty in the inner city?
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poverty is produced through the structural conditions of global capitalism
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What gendered tension(s) does Bourgouis discuss?
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all of the above (a crisis of masculinity a men turn to violence to reassert their authority, changing family dynamics as women enter the workforce, and men's loss of status as "provider" in the family due to loss of factory jobs)
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According to Bernstein, in the Pussy Riot trial ___________ became the vital site for the "enactment of sovereignty" to many citizens.
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the bodies of Pussy Riot participants
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In what Bernstein calls a "narrative of sacrifice," which of the following punishments was NOT called for by the Russian public for the Pussy Riot members?
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beheading
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According to Bernstein, why did some of Pussy Riot's opponents advocate corporal punishment over imprisonment?
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all of the above (a trial and prison would turn them into heroines and martyrs, corporal punishment is seen to "purify" the body, and the same incurred would make Pussy Riot suffer a "social death")
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In "The World System and Colonialism," Kottak argues that in the world system, the complexity of economic activities and the level of capital accumulation is the greatest in:
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Core nations
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In "The World System and Colonialism," Kottak argues that according to Marx, classes are:
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Opposed to one another based on conflicting economic interests
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In "The World System and Colonialism," Kottak argues that ________ is the current form of Adam Smith's 18th century manifesto that the government should stay out of its nation's economic affairs.
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Neoliberalism
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In "World Markets," Schneider argues that free market culture is a set of dispositions, habits, and practices that gravitate around four principles. Which one of the following is NOT one of those principles?
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An acceptance that the gap between haves and have-nots is inherent in a free market economy and cannot be overcome
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In "World Markets," Schneider discusses the work of Hungarian economist Karl Polanyi, who argues in The Great Transformation that capitalism is unique because of:
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The fiction that land, labor, and capital are nothing but commodities
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In "World Markets," Schneider cites Miller's argument that pure capitalism, abstracted from any regional or historical context, is promoted with missionary zeal by institutions like:
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All of the above (US schools of business/finance, International Monetary Fund/World Bank, and central banks/treasury departments)
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In "Making the Market," West argues that from the 1940s to the 80s, the international coffee market was dominated by:
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All of the above (Fordist coffee, gigantic coffee roasters like Maxwell House, and coffee that was standardized/mass-produced)
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In "Making the Market," citing Polanyi, what does West call the process by which economic activities become increasingly removed from the social relationships in which they occur?
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Disembedding
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In "Making the Market," West argues that neoliberal and fair trade practices are similar in that:
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Both promote consumer choice as a solution to structural inequality
