Chapter 12

Question 1

Every language in the world basically has the same set of color terms

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Cultural determinists believe that environment and culture determine the structure of the human mind

Answer 2

True

Question 3

There are no areas in the world where societies have very similar cultures but speak completely unrelated languages

Answer 3

False

Question 4

In anthropology, the term society always refers to a homogeneous population that is a population of uniform ethnic composition

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Because the Hopi language does not have tenses in the same sense that English does, the Hopis can’t express something that took place last night

Answer 5

False

Question 6

According to Edward Sapir, easily analyzable words are more recent than words whose origin is obscure

Answer 6

True

Question 7

There is very little correlation between the vocabulary of a language and the material culture

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Arapaho kinship makes no distinction between some lineal and some collateral relatives

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Gener is not a distinctive component of cousin terminology in English

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Which is not one of the components of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

Answer 10

Cultural determinism

Question 11

Ego in anthropology refers to:

Answer 11

A. the person of reference to whom others are shown to be related

Question 12

From the point of view of a native speaker to English, a peculiar feature of the Arapaho kinship system is the fact that:

Answer 12

C. ego’s father’s brother’s wife is referred to by the same kinship as ego’s mother