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__ is credited with providing us with the first detailed definitions of culture...

EB Tylor

What did Nancy Rosenberger find during her research in Uzbekistan?

A national cuisine based on meat is inaccessible to poorer segments of the population.

It would be fair to say that, in a multicultural society such as that in the US,...

There are conflicting systems of norms and values.

Ethnocentrism

Practice of judging another society by the values and standards of ones own society.

The Amish emphasize their ethnic difference through...

Language and dress

An example of ethnocentrism would be the belief that...

Societies that practice polygamy are uncivilized


According to Marvin Harris's hypothesis about pork prohibitions, traditional societies that keep and eat pigs...

Are more likely to live in or near forests.

___may occur when one dominant group in a complex society imposes its cultural beliefs on subordinate ethnic groups.

Cultural Hegemony

___may occur when one dominant group in a complex society imposes its cultural beliefs on subordinate ethnic groups.

Cultural Hegemony

Which of the following would be considered a form of non material culture?

Lullabies

___may occur when one dominant group in a complex society imposes its cultural beliefs on subordinate ethnic groups.

Cultural Hegemony

Which of the following would be considered a form of non material culture?

Lullabies

Which of the following reflects an anthropological understanding of the way culture is shared?

The sharing of cultural knowledge varies across different types of people even within the same sociocultural group

To the Rastafarians, their appearance symbolizes...

Power and liberation

"Ideology" refers to...

Beliefs and values supporting the interest of a group.

Way of enforcing social mores in hunter-gatherer societies generally involve the use of...

Gossip and ridicule.

Which of the following statements is true of symbols?

Symbols are arbitrary meaningful unit we use to represent reality

In order for an item to be cultural, it must be...

Learned and commonly shared among individuals.

A way of life shared by a group of human beings-including their language, beliefs, and things they make and use-is referred to by anthropologists as their...

Culture

What would be considered a "folkway" of contemporary culture in the US?

Dating before marriage