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Culture is both public and individual, both in the world and in people's minds.

A) True
B) False

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The statement, __________, is not true.


A) "all human groups have culture"
B) "culture provides the particular way that groups of humans deal with biological needs"
C) "human groups differ in their capacities for culture"
D) "the capacity for culture is shared by all humans"
E) "cultural learning is uniquely elaborated among humans"

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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Cultural relativists believe that people should judge culture only according to the standards and traditions of that culture and not according to standards of other cultural traditions.

A) True
B) False

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Because cultures are integrated, patterned systems, a change in one part of a culture often leads to changes in other parts.

A) True
B) False

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Define ethnocentrism and cultural relativism and highlight where they are similar or different.Identify the problems that can arise from cultural relativism in an anthropologist's work.

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Recent research on chimpanzee eating habits indicates that


A) chimps are habitual hunters.
B) male chimps are exclusive herbivores.
C) chimpanzees occasionally cook meat at volcanically heated springs.
D) while chimps do hunt a little, they get most of their meat by stealing it from predators.
E) chimpanzee hunting is the main reason New World monkeys are almost extinct.

F) All of the above
G) B) and C)

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Cultural generalities may arise through independent invention, when people in different societies devise similar solutions to comparable problems or challenges.

A) True
B) False

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_________ is a cultural universal.


A) Hypodescent
B) Hyperdescent
C) Bifurcate merging kinship terminologies
D) Transhumance
E) Some kind of family

F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

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__________ is an example of civic culture.


A) Television shows
B) The government
C) McDonald's
D) An unspoken dress codes for funerals
E) A musical performance at the city civic center

F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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Anthropologists consider __________ to be "cultured."


A) educated people
B) key cultural consultants
C) ethnocentric people
D) culturally sensitive people
E) all people

F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

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Acculturation is the process by which people lose the cultures that they learned as children.

A) True
B) False

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Humans do not share such features as __________ with chimpanzees.


A) tool use
B) meat eating
C) stereoscopic vision
D) high intelligence
E) visible estrus

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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__________ is unique to humans.


A) Social life
B) Tool use
C) Meat eating
D) Food sharing
E) Preserved kinship systems

F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

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Explain the differences between cultural universals, generalities, and particularities.Illustrate your answer with examples.

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Indigenous peoples can do nothing to counter threats to their cultural identity, autonomy, and livelihood posed by globalization.

A) True
B) False

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Cultural relativism is a core value of American society.

A) True
B) False

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Although there are many different levels of culture, an individual can participate in only one level at a time.

A) True
B) False

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The statement, __________, is not true.


A) "culture is a distinctive possession of humanity"
B) "culture is acquired by all humans as members of society through enculturation"
C) "culture encompasses shared, symbol-based, learned behavior and beliefs transmitted across generations"
D) "everyone is cultured"
E) "culture is transmitted genetically"

F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

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The idea of universal, inalienable human rights that are superior to the laws and customs of particular cultures challenges the notion of cultural relativism.

A) True
B) False

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__________ describes the cultural change that results when two or more cultures have continuous contact.


A) Acculturation
B) Enculturation
C) Independent invention
D) Colonization
E) Imperialism

F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

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