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- 36. The most common pattern of response to colonization among indigenous peoples was
- resistance and adaptation
- 31. Millenarian cults
- typically promise utopia in the afterlife
- 40. The Dou Donggo people studied by Peter Just primarily use a subsistence strategy of
- horticulture
- 34. The cargo cults of Melanesia
- a) usually postulated that the ancestors would return and a better day would dawn b) were based on Melanesians' observations that Europeans did not work directly to produce their food, but rather imported it as cargo on boats and planes c) prophesied a day when the social ranking of Europeans and Melanesians would be turned upside-down d) used models of airplanes, runways, and control towers to draw in cargo
- 28. The "American dream" that anyone can become a millionaire
- is an example of a hegemonic idea accepted by a wide spectrum of people
- 23.***** Professor Bowie's work on politics and gender in Thailand casts doubt on which previous assumption?
- a) the world of men is public and political, the world of women domestic and familiar b) when anthropologists are paying careful attention we rapidly uncover the key issues in any given society c) suffrage came earliest to Western societies d) postmarital residence patterns have little impact on politics
- 43. Which combination of lineage and postmarital residency is likely to place the most restrictions on women's activities?
- patrilineal, patrilocal
- 27. Criteria that social scientists have used to define class include all except:
- strict hereditary hierarchy of kinship groups
- 32. Elements of structural inequality that affect women's health in Malawi include
- a)the cash economy b)structural adjustment policies
- 30. Which of the following is not a common definition of globalization?
- increasing urbanization of indigenous minorities
- 24. A society
- is usually a group that recognizes itself as a group
- 38. Which of the following best captures Gramsci's distinction between ideology and hegemony?
- both maintain the power of the dominant, but ideology is openly expressed while hegemony is internalized and accepted as common sense
- 41. An individual's lifeworld
- may be shaped by accidental encounters and opportunities
- 29. Which of the following is true of status?
- is accompanied by a bundle of rights and obligations called "role"
- 35. Colonizers primarily shifted the colonized from subsistence agriculture to wage labor with
- taxes that had to be paid in cash
- 37. After an initial adjustment period, colonialism in Malawi and much of the rest of the "Third World" resulted in
- a)increased agricultural production b)increased malnutrition
- 26. As it is ideally defined, caste in India is
- a) strictly endogamous b) based on lineage c) hierarchically ranked d) associated with degrees of spiritual purity
- 42. Creativity
- b) involves questioning the standard blueprint for doing things c)involves recontexting ideas or practices
- 44. According to Corbett, cellphones in poverty-stricken areas
- have demonstrated particular utility for farmers, salespeople and prostitutes
- 22. Which of the following is true of the kula ring of the Trobriand Islands?
- kula partners serve as fictive kin for other needs
- 25. As they are actually practiced, which of the following is usually but not exclusively endogamous, often linked to occupation, and provides some but by no means unlimited opportunity for upward mobility?
- both caste and class
- 33. Neoliberal economic policies are based on all of the following assumptions except:
- increased consumption and decreased production benefit the balance of trade
- 39. Which of the following correctly describes Durkheim's theory of social solidarity?
- complex societies cohere because they are composed of many interdependent parts