Assignment: Ethnographic Research
Assignment: Ethnographic Research
Assignment: Ethnographic Research
Assignment: Ethnographic Research
According to ethnographic research conducted by Murray Leaf, the green revolution has been
successfully implemented in:
a. Mexico City, Mexico
b. Shahidpur, India
c. Rio de Janiero, Brazil
d. western Samoa
92. Dependency theorists suggest that multinational corporations are just a new form of
neocolonialism aimed at supplying the western world with natural resources and cheap labor.
These corporations, rather than helping the populace, actually intensify many of the
problems of third world countries by:
a. making it possible to get cheap food and adequate housing
b. creating benefits for a wealthy elite and a small middle class while allowing the vast
majority of the population to remain in poverty
c. establishing a strong lower class that eventually overthrows the ruling elite in the
country
d. Showing the people all of the riches, modern conveniences, and lifestyles that the
majority of the population cannot ever possess
93. Anthropologist Marvin Harris has suggested that the entire fabric of society in the former
Soviet Union was undermined by:
a. Marxist theories of social organization
b. influence from the cultures of the U.S. and Europe
c. widespread racial prejudice and ethnic conflict
d. deficiencies in economic infrastructure
94. Perestroika and glasnost are terms that refer to:
a. the power of the masses and religious ideology
b. military readiness and nationalistic sentiment
c. increasing capitalism and freedom of expression
d. totalitarianism and intolerance for ideas critical of the government
95. Since Mao Zedong’s death, China’s leaders have:
a. outlawed students from gaining degrees in the United States
b. abolished the commune system
c. relied on communist party cadres to instill egalitarian ideals
d. endorsed and attained political reforms
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Final Examination
GED210 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
96. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery, who carried out ethnographic work in Romania, identified
all but the following as a dilemma currently facing this post-socialist nation:
a. gender inequality reemerging
b. black markets and organized crime
c. manipulation of legal and political apparatus by former socialist bureaucrats to gain
personal economic opportunities
d. religious institutions working in opposition to capitalist enterprises
97. The first of the many federal acts to protect archaeological sites was the:
a. historic sites act
b. national environmental policy act
d. convention on cultural property
d. antiquities act
98. Anthropologists John Van Willigen and V. C. Channa found that the increase in dowry deaths
was partially the result of:
a. rapid price increases for consumer goods
b. decrease in the average age of the bride
c. increase in the practice of bridewealth among rural families
d. the repeal of national laws that made the institution of dowry illegal
99. Which of the following was not among Van Willigen and Channa’s recommendations for
decreasing the incidence of dowry death in India?
a. strengthening legislation that prohibits the institution of dowry
b. establishing a gender-neutral inheritance law in which women and men receive equal
shares
c. passing a requirement for universal marriage registration and licensing
d. working towards the achievement of gender equality in India
100.The word “metaculture” is used by anthropologists to refer to a:
a. culture within a culture, such as the culture of African Americans
b. culture that has become extinct, but about which enough is known to revive it
c. culture that seeks to dominate others, such as the culture of Nazi Germany
d. culture that is worldwide and pluralistic, sharing universal values
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