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1

The example of Omohundro's encounter with seal hunting in Newfoundland in this chapter is used to demonstrate:
A)symbolic communication through language
B)the fallacy of linear thinking
C)post-marital residence rules
D)conflicts in value systems
2

What type of survey instrument is borrowed from psychology and linguistics in order to analyze quantitatively the connotations of a concept?
A)genealogy
B)phonetic sequential
C)semantic differential
D)Q-mode analysis
3

The Malaysian value of budi bahasa, or interpersonal harmony is a(n):
A)instrumental value
B)end-state value
C)example of political economy
D)rite of reversal
4

Judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture is called:
A)ethnocentrism
B)cultural relativism
C)ethnosemantics
D)tempocentric
5

What term describes a defensive psychological response to prolonged interaction with another culture?
A)proxemics
B)culture shock
C)biological evolution
D)acclimatization
6

Which of the following is NOT one of the three phases of culture shock?
A)dissociation
B)disorientation
C)liminality
D)reconnection
7

The disorientation the cultural traveler experiences upon returning to the social and cultural scene that he or she considers "home" is called:
A)semantic differential
B)ethnocentrism
C)reverse culture shock
D)connotations
8

What term describes the dropping of your own culture and the adoption of the culture of your hosts as your own?
A)going native
B)reverse culture shock
C)cultural presuppositions
D)phenotypical adaptation
9

If we begin to think that our culture is inferior to that of our hosts, we've acquired a(n):
A)secondary ethnocentrism
B)ethnogenesis
C)ascribed status
D)inverted ethnocentrism
10

If you pick up the prejudices of your hosts in another culture, you have adopted a(n):
A)formal social structure
B)inverted ethnocentrism
C)secondary ethnocentrism
D)key scenario
11

Which of the following is NOT one of the three degrees of cultural relativism?
A)participant observation
B)strong doctrine
C)moderate doctrine
D)comparison taboo
12

What term describes advocating the separation of moral judgments and empirical claims?
A)ethical relativism
B)methodological relativism
C)division of labor
D)root metaphor
13

What position claims that there is no moral benchmark outside of culture by which to judge other cultures?
A)cultural diffusion
B)ecological economics
C)methodological relativism
D)ethical relativism
14

When a culture's beliefs and practices reduce the population's chances of survival, they are called:
A)maladaptive
B)ritualistic
C)core values
D)horticultural
15

Anthropologists working for or against change are doing:
A)non-scientific anthropology
B)maladaptive anthropology
C)applied anthropology
D)reverse anthropology





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