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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that

a. linguistic categories structure one’s reality
b. environment structures one’s reality
c. proxemics structure one’s reality
d. experience structures one’s reality

A

a

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The phone /!/ as found in the work !Kung

a. is an allophone with /m/ in the English language
b. is a non pulmonic post alveolar click consonant
c. is a vowel with no articulatory features
c. is not a phoneme

A

b

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the fact that you can re-organize the same three sounds (for example cat/act/tack) into three words with different meaning reflects the_____feature of human language.

a. Duality of Patterning
b. Productivity
c. Interchangeability of point of view
d. Arbitrariness

A

a

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The minimum bits of sound that native speakers recognize as distinct are known as

a. Syntax
b. Morphemes
c. Phonemes

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c

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The set of sounds and movements that animals make to communicate is called a

a. Call system
b. Parole
c. Philology
d. Arbitrariness

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atudy of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society.

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Sociolinguistics is the study of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society.

a. True
b. False

A

a

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America’s pattern of gender inequality is built into our linguistic practices.

a. True
b. False

A

a

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Linguists refer to mixed languages with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue as

a. a pidgin language
b. a creole language
c. language ideology
c. slang

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a

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How words fit together to make meaningful units is called

a. phonology
b. morphology
c. syntax
d. cognates

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c

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10
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According to anthropologists Sherry Ortner’s analysis, the American flag is an example of

a. a key scenario
b. a gesture
c. an elaborating symbol
d. a summarizing symbol

A

d

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The example from lecture where how close you are expected to stand to others while waiting in line varies between the US and Taiwan is an example of

a. Pragmatics
b. Semantics
c. Proxemics
d. ASL

A

c

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The use of Arabic script to phonetically transcribe the phones of Pular, or Wolof is

a. Griot
b. Islahi
c. Ajami
c. Lingua Franca

A

c

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13
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The roda can be seen as a cultural frame for playing capoeira

a. True
b. False

A

a

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According to Westby, the ability to read “between the lines” signifies what type of literacy?

a. Basic Literacy
b. Literacy
c. Critical Literacy
d. Dynamic Literacy

A

c

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The region of the world with the greatest linguistic diversity is

a. Equatorial Africa
b. Pidgin languages
c. The Southern cone of South America
d. The Islands of Indonesia an Papua New Guinea

A

d

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Most of the world’s languages are

a. Spoken by large numbers of people
b. Pidgin languages
c. Logograpic
d. Nearly extinct

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d

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An original painting by Rembrant would cost a potential buyer significantly more that a replica or reproduction. The monetary cost associated with the original painting best represents the objects______value

a. Authentic
b. Absolute
c. Symbolic
d. Utilitarian/Functional

A

a

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From the reading by Meneley, the Islahi movement impacts women’s veiling within their homes in which of the following way?

a. Calls for stricter veiling
b. calls for less strict veiling
c. Abolishes veiling completely

A

a

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The main barriers to implementing bilingual education in Paraguay are that there is great social stigma against the use of Guarani in popular culture

a. True
b. False

A

b

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20
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The tagging (graffiti) of a builing in downtown Seattle can be understood as
a. the role of architecture in cementing social control
b art as a form of resistance
c. museology
d. ethnomusicology

A

b

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21
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Talking about sports as a battlefield is an example of a metaphor

a. True
b. False

A

a

22
Q

According to lecture, Marx proposed that religion could be used by the elite to_______.

a. Understand the plight of the masses
b. Create communities for the greater good of God
c. Prevent the poor from taking self interested action against the elite
d. Promote capitalist social cohesion

A

c

23
Q

If a speaker of the Lamnso language of Cameroon aimed to describe a green color, it would be named

a. Fur-light
b. Sin-black
c. Bang-red
d. Fur or Sin depending on the shade

A

d

24
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The choice of Neoclassical Roman columns for the Washington State Capitol building can be understood in anthropological terms as

a. architecture as neocolonialism
b. an authentic attempt at reconstruction
c. art as a form of resistance
d. the symbolic role of architecture in representing cultural values

A

d

25
Q

____is by definition a form of thought and language (or symbolizing) that asserts a meaningful link between two expressions from different semantic domains

a. Metaphor
b. Play
c. Art
d. Icon

A

a

26
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The saying in Zimbabwe that if you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing. Suggests that they have a comparatively closed frame defining song and dance when compared to U.S culture.

a. True
b. False

A

b

27
Q

The local cultural definition of artistic quality is known as_______

a. worldview
b. appropriation
c. ethnoesthetics
d. enculturation

A

c

28
Q

The Navajo use of the swirl in traditional weaving was ended because________

a. Navajo were not supportive of the WWII (World War Two) war effort.
b. The dominant culture of the consumer associated the symbol with another meaning
c. It was a violation of spiritual practice to sell this sacred symbol
d. The NAGPRA act of 1990 protected traditional Navajo crafts from appropriation

A

b

29
Q

Michelangelo transformed rock into human form and called it David. Following an anthropological perspective on art, by selecting this name he_______his work within a durable cultural context that allows many students 500 years later to recognize the connection to the biblical story of David and Goliath

a. authenticated
b. framed
c. transformed
d. orthopraxied

A

b

30
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If you used And Warhol’s tomato soup can bag to carry groceries while grocery shopping, the bag’s role for the purpose of “carrying groceries” would be its

a. Authentic value
b. Functional/utilitarian value
c. Symbolic value
d. All of these

A

b

31
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How did the teacher use “gaze” to influence Margaret in her first capoeira experience in Bahia?

a. His gaze was used to intimidate her
b. His gaze felt intimate and then made her loose her balance
c. His gaze made her feel insecure about her competence in the Portuguese language
d. His gaze made her feel like an outsider and self-conscious of her race

A

b

32
Q

According to the text, African masks historically displayed by European and American museums were

a. exact likenesses to the animal they were representing
b. used as everyday objects
c. symbolic
d. well understood by European art historians

A

c

33
Q

The form of Capoeira associated with the experience of African slavery and Afro-Brazilian identity is

a. Capoeira Agnaldo
b. Capoeira Angola
c. Capoeira Ragiao
d. Capoeira Salvadorena

A

b

34
Q

The chador is

a. a black cloak
b. worn to fulfill the Yemeni cultural interpretation of hijab
c. interpreted by Meneley to inappropriately reveal adornments on the Barbie like doll sold to tourists in the suq
d. All of the above

A

d

35
Q

The Kuna (Cuna) of Panama have a rich and varied expressive art that is used for purposes ranging from political commentary to tony the tiger to puberty rituals, these take the form of

a. marine animal serving spoons
b. polyphonic songs
c. elaborate wooden bowls
d. appliqued blouses called molas

A

d

36
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Carnival is an example of a

a. ritual of inversion
b. monastic ritual
c. life cycle ritual
d. ritual for improving crop yields

A

a

37
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Ideas such as “Catholics don’t know that their saints are so onnected to our African gods, the old gods from which their saint probably came. So we pretended to worship their saints, but instead, with the very same figures and altars, we worshipped our own” illustrates the anthropological concept of________

a. Animism
b. Reformation
c. Syncretism
d. Unity of consciousness

A

c

38
Q

What are Turner’s three stages in rites of passage or lifecycle rituals?

a. liberty, equality, fraternity
b. separation, transition, reintegration
c. communitas, liminality, marginality
d. effacement, transition, delivery

A

b

39
Q

According to Turner’s classification, when spiritual power is directly experienced by humans the religious system is______of consciousness

a. polarity
b. unity

A

b

40
Q

______is peoples belief that inanimate objects such as trees, rocks, cliffs, hills, and rivers are animated by spiritual forces or beings

a. animism
b. atheism
c. shamanism
d. fanaticism

A

a

41
Q

If a Dominican baseball player is a devout Catholic, believes it is luch to touch the plate with his bat before hitting and understands that after age 40 our hitting declines by 5-10% annually per plate appearance, then most anthropologists would propose that_______

a. He is not really a devout catholic
b. He, like many people, simultaneously has magical, scientific and religious beliefs without issue
c. He is deeply troubled
d. He will be a very luck player

A

b

42
Q

Anthropologists categorized the connection between the Virgin of Guadalupe and Tonantzin in traditional Aztec religion as________

a. animism
b. syncretism
c. polytheism
c. reformation

A

b

43
Q

According to lecture, Durkheim proposed that religion played a central role in

a. Oppressing the masses
b. Genocide
c. Social stratification
d. Social cohesion

A

d

44
Q

According to the text, an explanatory system of causation that does not follow naturalistic explanations, and often works at a distance without direct physical contact is

a. mana
b. unity of consciousness
c. a deity
d. magic

A

d

45
Q

Clifford Geertz’s definition of religion is based on

a. dogma and ancient texts
b. witchcraft and shamans
c. symbolism and meaning
d. rites of passage

A

c

46
Q

Contemporary anthropology proposes that, in play people agree to follow the rules of a game, while in religion people choose to believe in the rules of life

a. True
b. False

A

a

47
Q

When social groups identify with specific animal or plant species as n emblem, it is called

a. value
b. supernatural
c. totemism
d. world religion

A

c

48
Q

A general approach to or set of shared unquestioned assumptions about the world and how it works

a. functionalism
b. ethnocide
c. worldview
d. spirit familiar

A

c

49
Q

The law of contagion, as applied to magic, is

a. some point of likeness between an aspect of the magical rite and the desired goal
b. when things that once were in physical contact with one another could have an effect even when they were no longer in contact
c. the governing principle of imitative magic
d. exemplified by voodoo dolls

A

b

50
Q

If you marry someone from your own religion

a. you assume that they associate the same values to marriage as you do
b. there are fewer ideological unknowns
c. a group connected through belief will likely show solidarity towards you commitment
d. all of the above

A

d

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