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QUESTION 90

What contemporary sociocultural anthropologist who teaches at NYU has defined the process of globalization as "an infintely varied contest of sameness and difference in a complex disjunctive disorder" or shaped by a disorganized capitalism influenced by what he terms the social imaginary?

	a.	Arjun Appadurai
	b.	Theodore Bestor
	c.	Franz Boas
	d.	Clifford Geertz

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QUESTION 91

What term referes to the way that people use culture to adapt to particular environments?

	a.	cultural diffusion
	b.	cultural hybridization
	c.	culural ecology
	d.	cultural relativity

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QUESTION 92

Gmelch notes in "Baseball Magic" that fetishes are often associated with baseball magic. These are:

	a.	lucky charms
	b.	things to be avoided
	c.	sayings
	d.	repetitive actions

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QUESTION 93

In the U.S., prior to the 1950s, motorcycle riding had what many perceived as an image that it was suitable for

	a.	couples
	b.	outlaws
	c.	average Americans
	d.	single women

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QUESTION 94

A social group with a common geographic origin that is now scattered world-wide living in populations around the globe, for instance, Tibetans in Europe, Australia and the United States.

	a.	remittance
	b.	diaspora
	c.	multicultural
	d.	World System

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QUESTION 95

In “Village Walks,” Guneratne and Bjork note that some Tharu from the village were working overseas and sending money home, yet tour companies characterized the Tharu as

	a.	the remnants of a lost Nepalese tribe
	b.	successful forest horticulturalists
	c.	refugees from central Nepal.
	d.	primitive forest aboriginals

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QUESTION 96

What system refers to the provision of goods and services to meet basic biological needs and social wants?

	a.	economic
	b.	religous
	c.	reciprocal
	d.	legal

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QUESTION 97

In "Talking on the Job", linguist Deborah Tannen describes misunderstandings in the workplace based on different speaking styles of

	a.	ethnolinguistic differences between people who are racially diverse
	b.	corporate owners of Fortune 500 companies and their employees
	c.	membership in high school cliques
	d.	men and women

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QUESTION 98

           Families can be consanguine or conjugal. The conjugal family has many forms. One type of conjugal family is the _____, consisting of the husband, wife, and dependent children.

	a.	nuclear
	b.	polyandrous family
	c.	polygynous family
	d.	extended

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QUESTION 99

Often created by media sources, political movements, or other social groups to present a particular point of view about something..._______________________ are social cosntructions of social phenomena.People construct these to advance a particular message they want listeners to hear.

	a.	frames
	b.	volags
	c.	mantras
	d.	symbols

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QUESTION 100

According to McCurdy in “Family and Kinship in Village India,” which is the most important structural tension associated with marriage in Bhil society?

	a.	whether wives will inherit from their own or their husband’s families.
	b.	the shifting of a woman’s loyalty, labor, and reproductive potential from her family to her husband’s family.
	c.	the decision about how large the dapa (bride price) will be.
	d.	the possibility that young people will refuse to be married.

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90. The correct answer is A. Arjun Appadurai

Arjun Appadurai is a contemporary sociocultural anthropologist who teaches at NYU has defined the process of globalization as "an infinitely varied contest of sameness and difference in a complex disjunctive disorder" or shaped by a disorganized capitalism influenced by what he terms the social imaginary. He is an Indian-American.

91. The correct answer is C. cultural ecology

92. The correct answer is A. lucky charms

93. The correct answer is B. outlaws

94. The correct answer is B. diaspora

95. The correct answer is A. the remnants of a lost Nepalese tribe