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Culture is


A) learned and shared.
B) a product of biology.
C) a product of individual psychology.
D) something you get when you go to the opera.

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The unilateral decision of one social group to take control of the symbols, objects, and practices of others is called cultural appropriation.

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How would you apply a cross-cultural approach to study sleeping habits?

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Anthropologists stress that a cross-cult...

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The theory of culture that proposes that cultural practices, beliefs, and institutions fulfill the psychological and physical needs of society is called


A) historical particularism.
B) social evolution.
C) functionalism.
D) cultural materialism.

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Cultural determinism is unproductive for cultural analysis because it


A) denies the influence of factors like physical environment and biology on humans.
B) denies the history of social atrocities.
C) explains that human action is the product of biology alone.
D) is commonly used as a guiding framework by contemporary cultural anthropologists.

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Examples of social institutions are


A) kinship, marriage, and farming.
B) numbers and the alphabet.
C) texts, books, and archival materials.
D) material artifacts.

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Enculturation starts


A) around five years old.
B) around two years old.
C) as soon as we are born.
D) after puberty.

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Culture can be transmitted virtually through the Internet in addition to face-to-face interaction.

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When Kay Warren presented her anthropological research, a group of Maya intellectuals, activists, and political leaders


A) were there cheering her on.
B) challenged her right to study the Maya culture as a foreign anthropologist.
C) collaborated with Warren.
D) copublished the paper.

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Cultural determinism is


A) the idea that culture waxes and wanes according to population size.
B) the idea that culture is determined by human evolution.
C) the belief that culture is determined by environment.
D) the belief that culture is responsible for all human action.

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Why does culture feel stable and natural when it is something that is artificial?

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Imagine how chaotic life would be if you...

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How would (a) a functionalist and (b) an interpretive anthropologist analyze Americans' love of baseball? How would their analyses differ?

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