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Practice Quiz Chapter 03
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"Modernity" is ________.
a) based on the European-style industrial city
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b) the adoption of the practices and worldview of Western capitalism
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c) seen as the rationalization of economic exploitation and political imposition
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d) all of the above
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The French colonization disrupted the formerly egalitarian relationship between Baule husbands and wives by ________.
a) denying education to Baule women
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b) excluding women from the process of economic production
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c) teaching Baule men to believe that women were inferior
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d) taking political rights away from Baule women
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The "Fourth World" refers to ________.
a) the original subjects of colonialism who continue to struggle in neocolonial settings
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b) marginalized peoples who possess no national attachments
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c) indigenous peoples who have lost their cultural traditions and knowledge
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d) nations that have failed to develop capitalist economies
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Neocolonialism refers to ________.
a) the persistence of social and economic ties between former colonial territories to their former colonial rulers
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b) the cultural domination of a people by larger, wealthier powers
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c) an economic system designed to created capital and profit
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d) the political and economic resurgence of formerly colonized peoples
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Within Ted Lewellen's classification, uncentralized political systems can be divided into two types: ________.
a) state and band
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b) chiefdom and state
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c) band and tribe
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d) composite and patriarchal
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Nineteenth-century typologies were based on ________.
a) geographical distribution
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b) perceived attributes or deficiencies in various social or cultural categories
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c) physical attributes only
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d) Darwin's On the Origin of Species
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The fur trade in North America resulted in ________.
a) disruptions to the ecosystem
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b) the introduction of infectious diseases
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c) social and cultural breakdown
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d) all of the above
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In the process of colonialism, anthropologists ________.
a) were active agents
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b) tended to have antagonistic relationships with colonial administrators
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c) actively sabotaged the efforts of colonial administrators
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d) typically tried to remain neutral intermediaries in colonial settings
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What did Franz Boas do?
a) He accepted the concept of unilineal cultural evolution.
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b) He remained relatively unknown in Canadian and American anthropology.
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c) He believed that cultures needed to be studied in their own historical contexts.
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d) He rejected the idea that cultural borrowing was key element in culture change.
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Europeans' sense that it was their duty to not only colonize but also rule and "civilize" people they viewed as being "savage" is known as ________.
a) Aboriginal redemption
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b) white man's burden
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c) missionary salvation
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d) colonial persuasion
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While colonial administrators often valued anthropologists'expert knowledge, they also sometimes viewed them with ________.
a) contempt
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b) fear
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c) suspicion
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d) dread
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The first Canadian department of anthropology was established at ________.
a) McGill University
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b) McMaster University
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c) University of Toronto
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d) University of British Columbia
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The ethnographic focus of much of the early anthropology in Canada was ________ .
a) on Canada's Indigenous peoples
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b) focused on new immigrants
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c) focused on French English conflict
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d) focused on foreign parts of the British Empire
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The _______ Company was granted trading rights with first Nations over a huge tract of Canada in 1670.
a) Northwest
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b) Eatons
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c) Voyager
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d) Hudson's Bay
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The African slave trade altered people's lives in ________.
a) Africa
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b) the Americas and Africa
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c) the Americas
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d) the Caribbean
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Humanism is ________.
a) the study of humanity
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b) helping people in a crisis
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c) an intellectual stance that emphasizes the value and agency of humans
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d) a variation of political socialism
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Which option regarding the effect of colonization on people is most accurate?
a) Indigenous men and women experienced different effects of colonialism
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b) Male leaders were most seriously affected by colonialism.
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c) Children were exempt from the negative effects of colonialism.
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d) Colonizers suffered as much as the colonized.
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The withdrawal of colonial power from territories previously administered is called ________.
a) disengagement
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b) decolonization
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c) independence
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d) colonial extraction
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While many traditional colonial empires are now gone they have often been replaced with new types of powerful empires called ________.
a) The New World order
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b) religious empires
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c) transnational corporate empires
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d) continental trade empires
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In rejecting evolutionism Franz Boas advocated that anthropologists focus on ________.
a) structural functionalism
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b) political economy
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c) cultural materialism
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d) historical particularism
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Under Lewellen's political structures scheme which of the following best represent centralized systems?
a) Chiefdom and state
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b) Band and tribe
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c) Food foragers and food producers
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d) Monarchies and sultanates
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Political economy refers to the structuring of power and society around material concerns.
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b) False
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Anthropologists generally tried to remain impartial when observing the effects of colonialism on their subjects.
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b) False
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"Unilineal cultural evolutionism" and the "ethnical stages" are two schemes of the Three Age System.
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b) False
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The indirect rule policy arose from the desire of British colonizers to return a degree of autonomy to Indigenous populations.
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b) False
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North American culture area studies eliminated the use of typologies and cultural classifications.
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b) False
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The Hudson's Bay Company mostly saw Indigenous peoples as troublesome and obstacles to trade.
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b) False
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The colonial political economy isolated conquered communities from each other.
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b) False
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Culture areas are broader than individual societies.
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b) False
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The only other society to be classified with Europeans in the "Civilization" stage were the Japanese.
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b) False
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With colonial rule, egalitarian relations of production linking men and women were preserved, as it helped to maintain order in the society.
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b) False
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Early anthropologists developed the structural-functional theory to deal with how particular social forms of society work from day to day to reproduce the traditional structure of society.
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b) False
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Lewis Henry Morgan believed that the evolution of a society from one stage to the next would occur as a result of cultural borrowing.
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b) False
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Social structure means the same thing as culture.
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b) False
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According to Lewellen, the band is the simplest form of human social organization.
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b) False
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Culture area studies in North America was an attempt to do without typologies.
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b) False
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A culture area exists independent of geographical region.
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b) False
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Globalization is the process that eliminates cultural differences and languages over time.
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b) False
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Cyborg anthropology is focused on the broad implications of human-machine coevolution.
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b) False
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While globalization has advantages its benefits are distributed unevenly among humans.
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b) False
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Unilineal cultural evolution relied on Darwin's mechanism of natural selection.
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b) False
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Neocolonialism perpetuates some of the social and economic ties that link colonial powers to their former colonies.
a) True
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b) False
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