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Anthro Quiz 3
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
05/01/2012

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An example of a traditional practice to prevent health problems is: all of the above
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tying ritually protective strings around parts of the body, hanging wooden phalluses on one's house to trick the widow ghosts. feeding pregnant women what they want.
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Ethno-etiology refers to cross-cultural variation in causal explorations for health problems and suffering.
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True
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An example of a culture-specific syndrome among white middle-class adolescent girls in the US is
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Anorexia nervosa
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Adopting a child forms kinship bonds that the textbook categorizes as sharing-based.
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True
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______ is a culture-specific syndrome in spain and portugal and common among latino people in the US; it is associated with a stressful incident or situation.
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Susto
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Bilineal kinship is more characteristic of foraging and industrial/informatics societies than of the other 3 modes of livelihood.
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True
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Thorp decided to make her book a polyvocal text bc she didn't think she was smart enough to use "esoteric" academic language.
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False
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The system of descent in which kinship is traced through the female line is called
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matrilineal
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a nuclear household which contains one or more adult children, as is becoming increasily common in the US is referred to as _____
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multi generational household
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Thorp argues that the garden served a basic need for the children at Jonesville Elementary. What is this basic need?
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Filling empty stomachs
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When medical anthropologists consider how the natural and social environments interact to cause disease, they are following the _____ approach
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ecological or epidemiological approach
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A form of applied, bottom-up research that involves field participants as co-reseaerchers is called
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Participatory research? not sure
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Compared to village exogamy, the practice of village _____ (in marriage) tends to maintain close ties between her bride and her family of origin.
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Endogamy
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A healing system that concentrates on maintaining balance in the body among various substances and factors judged to be "heating" or "cooling" is called a ______ system.
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Humoral
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Medical anthropologists study healing practices only in non-Western cultures.
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False
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Kinship charts, as presented in the Miller book, utilize a symbol for those who see themselves as Third-Gendered/intersexed
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False
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_______ is the term that applies to marriages between one man and several women.
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polygyny
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_______ ethnographies have more than one narrator.
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polyvocal
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Some forms of alternative healing include the use of radon
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True
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In the film "Marriages in Heaven," the brides and grooms receive several gifts during the wedding. Name one gift.
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Money
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Health problems caused by powerful forces such as poverty, war, famine, and forced migration are referred to as ______
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structural suffering
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In the movie "Marriages in Heaven" all of the men and women interviewed believe that arranged marriages are the only form of acceptable marriages.
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False
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Heavy reliance on the use of technology in diagnosis and treatment is a characteristic of the _____ healing system
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WBM (Western Biomedicine)
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thorp realizes that the garden is a useless project bc the students at JE are not willing to eat the vegetables that they helped grow.
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False
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In the film "Marriages in Heaven" we see many examples of syncretic weddings. What is one example of syncretism from the film
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Got it wrong but i'm guessing weddings where the married couple seek out arrangements on their own rather than have the parents arrange their marriage.
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The term medical pluralism refers to
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the presence of multiple health systems within a society
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Whose death causes thorp to return back home?
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her Father
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Compared to a family, a household may include
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People who aren't related by kinship
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Surgery, or treating an illness through cutting into the body, is a universally valued approach to healing in all cultures
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False
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One force of change in contemporary household arrangements is
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women pursing higher education and not being primary caregiver
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Thorp believes that teachers "plan in the doorway" because they are unprepared for teaching and don't believe in the learning capabilities of their students
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False
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The incest taboo
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leads to exogamy
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Thorp argues that the "single most important act of democracy" you can perform is
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"drawing near to the place where you live"
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Brideprice refers to
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a gift to the bride's family from the groom's side
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Cultural anthropologists generally accept that marriage only involves a binding union between a man and a woman such that children born to them are considered legitimate by society
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False
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Thorp believes that the only ones who experiences a "metamorphosis" through the garden project were the students.
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False
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According to the textbook, kinship is based on which three factor?
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Descent, sharing, and marriage
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Ethnomedicine refers to
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the study of cross-cultural health systems
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The role of European diseases in the depopulation of the New World was
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significant
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A rule that says a person must find a marriage partner from outside their village is called
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exogamy
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one factor that may explain the success of placebos is the act of the prescription itself
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True
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Both Dettwyler and Thorp use participatory research methods in their field projects and see their field participants as co-researchers.
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False
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The Ju/Hoansi of the kalahari desert have a healing system that is
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community-based
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Forced migration that causes mental and physical stress is an example of structural suffering
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True
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Most cultural anthropologists would accept as the minimal accepted definition of marriage a "union between two or more people."
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True
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Thorp is deeply impressed by "Sandy" the other research, who came to Jonesville school to show the teachers how to create good lesson plans
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False
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thorp argues that the garden provides many gifts to the children and teachers at Jonesville elementary. Name one of them.
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Connection felt between teachers, children, and the earth.
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The research tool showing the relatives known by an individual or ego is a
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kinship diagram
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In a patrilineal kinship system, a married couple is most likely to reside
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with or near the parents of the groom.
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Humoral healing systems are based on
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A philosophy that seeks balance among various bodily fluids and forces.
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BONUS
In the brief clip from the colbert report, colbert jokes that his uncle was married to which sea mammal?
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Dolphin
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BONUS
All the children who attend JE live within a close walk from the school
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False
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BONUS
From the film Marriages in Heaven, what is one way that arranged marriages are changing.
Definition
Children seek out matchmakers
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BONUS
Name an example of a culture-specific syndrome
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Anorexia
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^ = O
(looks like triangle = O) in the kinship diagram. The two are related by
Definition
Marriage.
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