Deck 3: From Inside and Out

Question 1

In linguistics, "aspiration" means:

A) something you hope to do
B) coughing a lot
C) vomiting
D) a small puff of breath
E) the connection of two parts of a sentence

Answer 1

D

Question 2

A phoneme is:

A) a small puff of breath
B) an imitation iPhone
C) a sound that it is possible for humans to make
D) a sound that speakers of a language hear as different from others
E) a vibration of the voice box

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Etic means:

A) all the differences someone outside the culture can see
B) all the differences someone inside the culture can see
C) the right thing to do
D) something you have to think about being right or wrong
E) something you don't want to do

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Emic means:

A) alternative sources of energy
B) lacking all nutritional value
C) a corporate product
D) all the differences someone inside the culture can see
E) all the differences someone outside the culture can see

Question 5

In a genealogical diagram a brother and a sister are connected by:

A) a vertical line
B) an equal sign
C) a circle
D) a triangle
E) a horizontal line

Question 6

In a genealogical diagram, a husband and wife are connected by:

A) a vertical line
B) an equal sign
C) a circle
D) a triangle
E) a horizontal line

Question 7

In a genealogical diagram, a father and daughter are connected by:

A) a vertical line
B) an equal sign
C) a circle
D) a triangle
E) a horizontal line

Question 8

All the people who trace descent to a common ancestor are:

A) a tribe
B) a nation
C) a lineage
D) a firm
E) a household

Question 9

The reference point of a genealogical diagram is called:

A) the first born son
B) the oldest sister
C) the mother
D) ego
E) princess

Question 10

Young people usually fall in love with:

A) forbidden people
B) people they see in media
C) the people they go to school with
D) the people they're supposed to marry
E) their roommates

Question 11

For Trukese people, a cross cousin is someone:

A) you will marry
B) that's always cross with you
C) you can never marry
D) you can never have sex with
E) from a different lineage

Question 12

A residence rule says:

A) what school system you will be in
B) what kind of taxes you will pay
C) where newlywed couples live
D) where you register your car
E) the zoning of your neighborhood

Question 13

Patrilineal means:

A) you live with the husband's people
B) you live on the same street as a church
C) you trace descent through men
D) you belong to an Irish family
E) you have to marry a cousin

Question 14

Patrilocal means:

A) you live with the husband's people
B) you live on the same street as a church
C) you trace descent through men
D) you belong to an Irish family
E) you have to marry a cousin

Question 15

From his fieldwork on the island of Truk, Ward Goodenough concluded:

A) that it is best for newlyweds to live with the husband's group
B) that it is best for newlyweds to live in new houses
C) that Trukese prefer to live where they can get a factory job
D) that the idea of residence rules is ethnocentric
E) that it doesn't matter where newlyweds live

Question 16

Cultural codes are:

A) ways that people keep their cultures secret from anthropologists
B) ways people use their emic systems
C) the signs that let people patent new ideas
D) ways people can encrypt their secret thoughts
E) mostly etic

Question 17

Lisu people live in:

A) Trinidad
B) Turkey
C) Trobriand Islands
D) Thailand
E) Tonga

Question 18

In a Lisu village, about what portion of cures involved spirits?

A) almost all
B) virtually none
C) about ¾
D) about ¼
E) about ½

Question 19

Lisu ask their shamans to call their spirits so the people can:

A) ask what spirits the sick person offended
B) demand the spirits make the sick person well
C) ask the spirit what medicines to use to help the sick person
D) ask the spirits to help with health insurance for the sick person
E) thank the spirits for taking such good care of the people

Question 20

Most Americans think of a family as being:

A) a whole lineage
B) a kindred
C) a husband, wife, and children
D) all of the cousins of the same generation
E) all of the people you like the most

Question 21

Malinowski wanted to check Freud's idea of the Oedipal complex in the Trobriand Islands because:

A) Trobriand Islanders are matrilineal
B) Trobriand fathers don't have authority over their sons
C) he thought Freud was ethnocentric
D) in the Trobriands, the men of the boy's lineage have authority over them
E) all of the above

Question 22

In a matrilineal lineage with cross cousin marriage, a young woman:

A) could marry her FZS
B) could not marry her MZS
C) could marry her MBS
D) could not marry her FBS
E) all of the above

Question 23

In a matrilineal lineage with cross cousin marriage, a young man:

A) could marry his FBD
B) could not marry his FZD
C) could marry his MZD
D) could marry his MBD
E) all of the above

Question 24

In a matrilineal system who must be in your same lineage?

A) MBS
B) FZD
C) FBS
D) MZD
E) all of the above

Question 25

FZ kids are cross cousins.

Question 26

MB kids are cross cousins.

Question 27

FB kids are cross cousins.

Question 28

MZ kids are cross cousins.

Question 29

Cross cousins are in your same lineage.

Question 30

Parallel cousins are in your same lineage.

Question 31

Ethnocentrism is thinking your own emic system is a universal etic system.

Question 32

Freud was ethnocentric.

Question 33

A genealogical diagram can be an etic grid.

Question 34

Europeans and Americans of European descent don't have lineages.

Question 35

According to the Lisu cultural code, spirits can make people sick.

Question 36

According to the Lisu cultural code, medicines can help if spirits are making a person sick.

Question 37

According to the industrial-medical cultural code, spirits may play a role in making people sick.

Question 38

The Lisu and the industrial theories of disease are identical on many points.

Question 39

According to the Lisu view of the world, spirits can possess shamans.

Question 40

The spirits represented by Chinese cups on Lisu household altars are not arranged in any particular order.

Question 41

According to the Lisu view, spirits are very egalitarian.

Question 42

If Lisu do something to annoy another person and don't make it right, the person who was annoyed has the right to harm the person that annoyed them.

Question 43

According to the Lisu view, spirits are motivated by the same things that motivate people.

Question 44

Peoples' actions have consequences.

Question 45

People understand reality by means of their cultural codes.

Question 46

People do what they do because of the way the way they understand their realities.

Question 47

Sometimes trying to fix a problem according to the way we understand it according to our culture just makes things worse.

Question 48

People with good hearts can work in systems of institutional racism.

Question 49

In the United States automobile companies destroyed public transportation.

Question 50

In the United States automobile companies are really concerned about greenhouse gases and global warming.

Question 51

Education is usually an effective way to handle environmental and social problems.

Question 52

The things people think of as natural are really not natural but parts of their own cultures.

Question 53

The reason to understand systems is to be able to change them intelligently so that they work better for all of us.

Question 54

If Nasrudin truthfully told the hangman at the city gate that he was going to be hanged, then he lied because the hangman couldn't hang him because he hadn't lied.

Question 55

Everything really is a matter of individual choice.

Question 56

Ideas of anthropology may help us understand people from far away like Lisu, Trobrianders, and Trukese, but they're not very useful in the modern world.

Question 57

Lisu shamans say they are the horses of their spirits.

Question 58

Lisu oracles are random.

Question 59

Some people have no relatives.

Question 60

In some kinship systems, people are expected to marry relatives that Europeans and Americans call cousins.

Question 61

What do linguists call the puff of breath you feel on your palm after you say "pot" or "top"?

Question 62

List three sources of data that Lisu use in deciding how to cure sick people:

Question 63

List three sets of ideas Lisu use to interpret data about sick people:

Question 64

List two kinds of actions that can result from the ideas Lisu have about sick people:

Question 65

Explain the difference between etic and emic.

Question 66

Discuss the application of the ideas of emic and etic in connection with the way anthropologists study kinship.

Question 67

Explain the difference between a kindred and a lineage.

Question 68

Explain what a cultural code is and how anthropologists learn about them.

Question 69

Illustrate the relationship of cultural codes with external realities with a discussion of automobiles and greenhouse gasses in the U.S.

Question 70

Explain why the authors say anthropologists have to get outside of their own cultures and give up some of their ideas. Illustrate with the idea of individualism.