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- 16. When Candy broke free from her abusive husband, she took pride in "making money as a street dealer, in having a kept lover, in bragging about her sexual prowess in public, and in requiring her lover to have sex with her on demand." Bourgois sums this behavior up as
- inverting patriarchy
- 15. An ataque de nervios is a folk diagnosis common among Puerto Ricans. It is
- a way to vent anger against an abusive spouse
- 4. In human societies we know of, prestige can be earned by
- a) destroying desirable objects b) accumulating desirable objects c) giving away desirable objects
- 14. Structural changes have been felt in El Barrio as attacks on masculine dignity and power, Bourgois claims. Which of the following is not one of these structural changes?
- the misogyny of street culture
- 6. Forces commonly used to minimize deviance and conflict in societies include all of the following except:
- prestige
- 11. According to Bourgois, El Barrio's crack dealers maintain respect through all of the following except
- chronic substance abuse
- 3. Matrilineal is to matriarchal as:
- descent is to power
- 2. Witchcraft among the Azande
- is a physical substance in the body
- 12. Bourgois asserts that the traditional female strategy for making a major life change - both in Puerto Rico and in El Barrio - is
- falling in love
- 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
- 7. According to Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic, among the Azande deviance was minimized primarily through
- supernatural sanction
- 5. In all societies we know of, _____ can be both ascribed and achieved
- status
- 21. In which of the following lists are types of work arranged from lowest to highest status?
- maintenance, subsistence, labor
- 19. Religions tend to have an institutional or ideological aspect that is social, hierarchical, and based upon divisions and distinctions - but also another that is about individual experience, transformed consciousness, and deep emotion. We can best think of this second aspect as:
- mystical
- 8. Worldwide, third genders are
- highly variable in class and sexual practices
- 17. According to Bourgois, which of the following factors did not contribute significantly to the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s in East Harlem?
- the greater addictive potential of crack when compared to powder cocaine
- 1. concept of "lifeworld" helps us consider the interactions among
- myths, tales, and legends
- 9. Which of the following is not a mode of resource allocation?
- subsistence
- 10. Which of the following is not an essential attribute of general-purpose money?
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- 20. Major theoretical approaches to the interaction of culture and environment include all of the following except:
- horticultural diffusionism
- 18. Most medical systems, including biomedicine, survive because:
- a) interventions taken between onset and resolution of a disease appear successful b) they underestimate toxicity and overestimate efficacy c) even unwelcome outcomes like death can confirm a belief system
- 13. Uprooted Puerto Ricans, over the past several generations, have primarily worked as all except
- in railroad and trolley construction
- 22. Which of the following is true of the kula ring of the Trobriand Islands?
- kula partners serve as fictive kin for other needs