Question 1

One of the defining features of Canadian anthropology is the integration of social sciences and humanities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

In Canada,wine is commonly consumed during meals,but in India one takes wine only after the meal is finished.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Canadian anthropology was shaped by ________ with First Nations peoples and strong relations with museums.

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A)  cultural resource management
B)  ethnohistorical and advocacy work
C)  interpretive anthropological work
D)  cultural and spiritual revival
E)  critical cultural relativismF) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 4

At least two Canadian universities have split their department into anthropology and

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A)  linguistics.
B)  archaeology.
C)  sociology.
D)  culture studies.
E)  history.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 5

Many Canadian anthropologists in small colleges and universities are engaged in community-based ________.

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The answer of Many Canadian anthropologists in small colleges and...

Question 6

The analysis of trace elements in bones provides detailed information about diet including whether individuals were primarily vegetarians.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Critical cultural relativism says that whatever goes on in a particular culture must not be questioned.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

What was the purpose of Miner's description of the Nacirema culture?

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A)  He wanted to make the familiar strange
B)  He was conducting "salvage" ethnography to record the culture of a people threatened with assimilation and cultural extinction
C)  He wanted to make the strange familiar
D)  He was writing an ethnographic account of a remote people located in the tropical jungle of Amazonia
E)  He wanted to demonstrate how cultures evolved over timeF) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 9

What are the major theoretical debates in contemporary anthropology and what do these debates say about the way that anthropologists understand why people behave and think the way they do?

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Biological determinism versus ...

Question 10

Why does DNA evidence counter the assumption that races exist as distinct biological entities?

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"Races" lack interna...

Question 11

Which of the following pairings is not correct?

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A)  Franz Boas,personality and culture
B)  Sir Edward Tylor,armchair anthropology
C)  Bronislaw Malinowski,participant observation
D)  Marvin Harris,cultural materialism
E)  Claude Lévi-Strauss,structuralismF) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 12

Discuss how Canadian anthropologists are playing a role in understanding global-local interactions?

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Recent ethnographies such as V...

Question 13

Describe the scope of applied anthropology in Canada.

Accepted Answer

Native land claims;healthcare;...

Question 14

How would the cultural materialists analyze the practice of elimination in villages in India?

Accepted Answer

A)  They would study the ecological advantages that village practices provide and how social norms enforce advantageous practices
B)  They would analyze the symbolic significance of clean and unclean
C)  They would study class conflict and how practices of elimination enforce social hegemony
D)  They would seek out the underlying social structures
E)  They would seek to deconstruct power-knowledge relationsF) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 15

Linguistics is often omitted in Canadian anthropology departments,reflecting the British university pattern of considering linguistics

Accepted Answer

A)  outside the scope of anthropology.
B)  as a "disappearing" language of ancient cultures.
C)  integral to cultural anthropology since language is the primary means for transmitting culture.
D)  as the origin and development of related languages and how they change through time.
E)  as a subfield of physical anthropology.F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 16

Daniel Wolf's research on a biker gang in Alberta,called ________ provides an example of ________ work.

Accepted Answer

The Rebels: A Brothe...

Question 17

What is class?

Accepted Answer

Category based on people's economic posi...

Question 18

Only about one-third of the departments of anthropology in Canada include the ________ within one department.

Accepted Answer

A)  four subfields
B)  three subfields
C)  archaeology and linguistics subfields
D)  physical and socio-cultural subfields
E)  cultural and archaeology subfieldsF) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 19

Skeletons of nineteenth-century voyageurs from a fur trade post in Alberta show evidence of arthritis of the spine,shoulder,and elbow,and robust muscle attachments compatible with paddling heavy freight canoes.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

What theoretical positions or schools of thought emerged in anthropology in the 1960s and how do they differ from the theories that came before them and the theoretical directions that emerged in the 1990s?

Accepted Answer

Cultural materialism and inter...

Exam 1: Anthropology and the Study of Culture

Discuss how Canadian anthropologists are playing a role in understanding global-local interactions?

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Canadian anthropology was shaped by ________ with First Nations peoples and strong relations with museums.

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What is class?

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Daniel Wolf's research on a biker gang in Alberta,called ________ provides an example of ________ work.

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One of the defining features of Canadian anthropology is the integration of social sciences and humanities.

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Only about one-third of the departments of anthropology in Canada include the ________ within one department.

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What are the major theoretical debates in contemporary anthropology and what do these debates say about the way that anthropologists understand why people behave and think the way they do?

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Critical cultural relativism says that whatever goes on in a particular culture must not be questioned.

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At least two Canadian universities have split their department into anthropology and

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In Canada,wine is commonly consumed during meals,but in India one takes wine only after the meal is finished.

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Many Canadian anthropologists in small colleges and universities are engaged in community-based ________.

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The analysis of trace elements in bones provides detailed information about diet including whether individuals were primarily vegetarians.

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What was the purpose of Miner's description of the Nacirema culture?

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How would the cultural materialists analyze the practice of elimination in villages in India?

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Describe the scope of applied anthropology in Canada.

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Which of the following pairings is not correct?

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Linguistics is often omitted in Canadian anthropology departments,reflecting the British university pattern of considering linguistics

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Why does DNA evidence counter the assumption that races exist as distinct biological entities?

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What theoretical positions or schools of thought emerged in anthropology in the 1960s and how do they differ from the theories that came before them and the theoretical directions that emerged in the 1990s?

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