Deck 10: Using and Doing Anthropology

Question 1

According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," Peace Corps volunteers conceive otime as lineal while the Tswana associate iwith events.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In "Advice for Developers," Alverson reports thaPeace Corps volunteers maintained an aloodistance when they talked with Tswana farmers.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Which othe following authors is an extreme diffusionist?

A)Erich von Däniken
B)W.Lloyd Warner
C)Emile Durkheim
D)Sigmund Freud

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In action anthropology, planned change is initiated, controlled, and implemented by

A)administrators
B)the people affected by change
C)the anthropologist
D)outside observers

Question 5

Acculturation refers to the process olearning one's culture.

Question 6

The meeting otwo culturally distincgroups is called

A)diffusion.
B)acculturation.
C)social contact.
D)cultural contact.

Question 7

An anthropologisattempts to influence the way people treatramps by publishing a book on tramp culture, thus making tramps more predictable to those who musdeal with them.Such an anthropologiswould be doing adjustmenanthropology.

Question 8

The process ochange due to culture contacis called

A)diffusion.
B)borrowing.
C)acculturation.
D)enculturation.

Question 9

Social acceptance oan innovation involves three steps: identification, analysis, and substitution.

Question 10

Any use oanthropological knowledge by anthropologists to increase the power oself- determination oa particular cultural group is called

A)action anthropology.
B)academic anthropology.
C)advocate anthropology.
D)adjustment anthropology.

Question 11

Any use oanthropological knowledge thamakes social interaction more predictable among persons having differencultural codes is called

A)academic anthropology.
B)action anthropology.
C)administrative anthropology.
D)adjustment anthropology.

Question 12

Action anthropology requires thathe group thais to change has some legitimate process for making decisions.

Question 13

Any use oanthropological knowledge to influence social interaction, to maintain or change social institutions, or to directhe course ocultural change is called

A)applied anthropology.
B)adjustment anthropology.
C)advocate anthropology.
D)administrative anthropology.

Question 14

In "Advice for Developers," Alverson observes thaTswana farmers speak aboutheir feelings with candor.

Question 15

A recombination othings thaare known into something differenis called

A)culture change.
B)innovation.
C)social integration.
D)diffusion.

Question 16

When an anthropologisattempts to make social interaction more predictable in cases where two people are operating with differencultural codes, he or she is doing action anthropology.

Question 17

Innovation is the recombination opreviously known concepts into something qualitatively new.

Question 18

Ian anthropologisstudied how the use otobacco spread throughouthe world, he or she would be interested in cultural diffusion.

Question 19

Applied anthropology focuses on the use oanthropological knowledge to inform, enlighten, or increase the understanding osome individual or group.

Question 20

In Alverson's "Advice for Developers," Peace Corps volunteers working in Botswana often isolated themselves, hung ouwith other Americans or Europeans, felspiteful toward the Tswana, and failed to complete contracts.

Question 21

In "Advice for Developers," Alverson concludes that, Peace Corps volunteers tend to force people like the Tswana to do whathey, the volunteers, consider is needed.

Question 22

In "Advice for Developers," Alverson observes thathe Tswana see time as

A)lineal.
B)connected to events.Time happens when events happen.
C)a non-concept.The Tswana do not think in terms of time.
D)measured by a cycle of ritual occasions.

Question 23

Alverson has seen the Tswana's beliethabeing alone is

A)a time to think.
B)a way to experience a religious experience.
C)a necessary part of resting.
D)a time for secrets.

Question 24

In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes thain Malawi culture, goats have traditionally been seen as

A)walking bank accounts.
B)animals bred solely for milk production.
C)animals that don't provide enough in resources to warrant raising them.
D)nuisance animals that eat the crops grown by villagers.

Question 25

In addition to typical weor dry seasons thamoscountries experience, Malawi has a "hungry season": the period between when the lasothe stored harvesis consumed and the firsothe nexseason's crops are harvested.

Question 26

According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," the Tswana like their privacy and resenAmerican volunteers when the latter invade their space.

Question 27

According to Patten in "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," the UDLP team undertook a plan to try teaching Malawi women how to incorporate cow's milk into the gruel fed to babies and children, to gemore protein and calories into their diet.

Question 28

In "Advice for Developers," Alverson suggests thathe Tswana are liable to show up aa volunteer's door when the American says, "We should getogether sometime."

Question 29

According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," how do Peace Corps volunteers see themselves?

A)They see themselves as students, there to learn from the Tswana about how to change their American ways.
B)They see themselves are experts, there to teach the less fortunate.
C)They know that the Tswana do not want them in Botswana, but feel that they know better than the Tswana was is good for their community.
D)They don't want to impart Western ideas in their work with the Tswana.

Question 30

Medical anthropology can be defined as the study ohuman health in a variety ocultural and environmental contexts.

Question 31

In Alverson's estimation, which statemenbesdescribes the Tswana?

A)The Tswana do not value friendships based on trust and honesty.
B)The Tswana believe that privacy is important part of daily life.
C)The Tswana value truth and honesty above all.
D)The Tswana feel that work comes before hospitality and socializing.

Question 32

Child undernourishmenin Malawi is a major problem, with a mortality rate for children under five o24 percent, or very nearly one in four.

Question 33

Based on Alverson's reporin "Advice for Developers," which one othe following statements abouPeace Corps volunteers is true?

A)They easily recognize Tswana class and age distinctions.
B)They are often able to make up a good lie rather than tell the truth. c They like their privacy and resent it when the Tswana interrupt their tranquility.
D)They are offended by the usual candor of Tswana speech.

Question 34

The projeccontinued to address food insecurity problems and issues thaarose from the goat-raising efforts.The researchers taughthe women how to plant, grow, and process soybeans into flour thathey could use when no goat's milk was available.All otheir efforts were sustainable-women were asked to return their firsbaby goato the researchers and 5 kg oseed after the firsharvest.The research team's efforts worked within the culture othe Malawi, incorporated indigenous resources, and were conducted in the native language othe villagers.
The author concludes thathe projecwas highly valued by rural women, as evidenced by the number who wanted to participate.Iproved thathe addition ogoat's milk to a child's diewas valuable, and the success othe projecis noted by similar projects thawere introduced by Malawi nongovernmental organizations.Additionally, Patten elaborates on the importance ohaving an anthropologison a research team, and identifies her role and responsibilities.Her expertise proved valuable to the acceptance othe projecand the high level oparticipation by the Malawian villagers.
ARTICLE 37 QUESTIONS
True or False?

Question 35

Tswana farmers, notes Alverson in "Advice for Developers," fail to recognize the subtle references abousex, age, and class in the English language oPeace Corps volunteers.

Question 36

In Alverson's estimation, Peace Corps volunteers feel they are making a sacrifice to serve other, less fortunate people, and thathey are the experts in relations with local people.

Question 37

In Malawi, babies are breastfed for only six months before mothers begin to wean them onto a gruel made from water and rice flour.

Question 38

According to Alverson in "Advice for Developers," Tswana see greeting others as

A)a waste of time.
B)a way to be polite.
C)a strategy to avoid work.
D)an essential act and time to exchange news.

Question 39

The length othe "hungry season" in Malawi has decreased in recenyears.

Question 40

As Alverson notes in "Advice for Developers," Americans reveal intimate information abouthemselves to friends.The Tswana feel revealing secrets is dangerous.

Question 41

Applied medical anthropology focuses on the biomedical studies ohuman adaptations to disease.

Question 42

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," female inmates atwo California prisons often avoided seeking treatmenfor their ailments, because getting an appointmenwith a health care provider took so long and many inmates could noafford the required copay.

Question 43

The purpose opublic interesethnography, in Stryker's analysis in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," is to

A)study the motivations of policy makers.
B)assess the costs associated with a policy.
C)assess a policy from the perspective of those affected by it.
D)discover inconsistencies in a policy.

Question 44

In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes thasome villages were nogood candidates for the social research projecdue to

A)a language barrier between the anthropologists and the villagers.
B)an ongoing problem of animal theft.
C)the elders' resistance to the plan.
D)the resistance of women head-of-households in those villages.

Question 45

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest,"

A)overcrowding was not a problem at the prisons she studied.
B)women were very well paid for the work they did in the prison.
C)women sometimes faked illness to get faster medical attention.
D)women had equal and unfettered access to adequate medical care.

Question 46

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," in order to receive medical treatment, female inmates in the California prison system had to

A)file a $10 copay form.
B)always see an MTA first.
C)always see a nurse practitioner first.
D)receive a ducat.

Question 47

As indicated in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," Stryker knew ofemale inmates in two California prisons who sometimes faked ailments to receive medical treatmenfaster.

Question 48

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," public interesethnography is aimed aredistribution owealth in the United States.

Question 49

From the research Patten's team conducted, they learned that

A)women in the villages headed 50 percent of all households.
B)each household had an adult male regularly living with them.
C)over 35 percent of the children were underweight for their age.
D)20 percent of the women were illiterate.

Question 50

In "Ethnography in the Public Interest," Stryker reports thaa Latina inmate named Nicole was subdued, stripped naked, and incarcerated separately when she experienced complications related to a medication she was taking.

Question 51

According to Patten in "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," the UDLP planned to provide

A)village elders with goats to collectively raise and milk for the all of the village's children.
B)the male head of household a milk-producing goat to raise and use for the nutritional needs of his entire family.
C)the male head of household a goat to raise and slaughter for meat.
D)the woman of each household with a milk-producing goat to raise and use for her children's nutritional needs.

Question 52

In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes thathe UDLP projecto teach women how to raise and care for goats, and to incorporate milk into their children's food, was

A)flatly rejected by the village leaders.
B)so popular that it quickly had more participants than it could accommodate.
C)too difficult for the women of the villages to undertake.
D)failed due to the theft of goats by people in other villages.

Question 53

In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes thaby 2004,

A)one third of the women still had their original project animal.
B)half of the women had lost their original animals to theft.
C)only one woman had sold her animal before it had produced a viable kid.
D)village elders had taken control of all of the buck stations and had begun charging for its services.

Question 54

In "Ethnography in the Public Interest," Stryker notes thapublic interesethnography involves fieldwork among policy makers.

Question 55

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," public interesethnography looks apublic policy from the perspective othose who are affected by it.

Question 56

As Stryker contends in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," public interesethnography may achieve a redistribution opower thaincludes those affected by policy.

Question 57

In "Ethnography in the Public Interest," Stryker's study determined that

A)there are adequate translation services in the prisons studied.
B)the number of MTA positions should be increased.
C)overcrowding had no impact on prisoners' access to health care.
D)the MTA position should be eliminated.

Question 58

According to Patten in "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," the "hungry season," the time between the consumption othe lasothe stored harvesand the firsharvesothe new season, now often begins in _________ and ends in __________.

A)June; November
B)December; March
C)September; March
D)March; September

Question 59

In "Ethnography in the Public Interest," Stryker admits thathe Women's Prison Healthcare Projecshe directed unfortunately failed to produce actionable recommendations.

Question 60

As indicated in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," the ethnographic projecStryker directed recommended thaprisons should eliminate the medically trained guard (MTA) position.

Question 61

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," the prison position oMTA was held by a

A)nurse practitioner.
B)medically trained guard.
C)medical appointment secretary.
D)designated prison doctor.

Question 62

According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," ethnographers work largely by administering and analyzing questionnaires.

Question 63

As he describes iin his article "Using Anthropology," McCurdy notes thaone othe problems aUTC was thawarehouse workers failed to counbooks correctly.

Question 64

The manager aUTC spentime learning the warehouse system as an insider views it, and discovered thainaccurate warehouse inventory numbers resulted from

A)employees throwing away materials.
B)a problem with software that tracked inventory.
C)pressures on employees to work fast, preventing them from accurately counting and recording what was shipped.
D)employee theft.

Question 65

According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," over halthe Ph.D.s in anthropology each year find employmenoutside oacademia.

Question 66

McCurdy reports in "Using Anthropology" thaan anthropologiswho works as a consultandiscovered thaChicago-area natural gas consumers lied on questionnaires when they said they were trying to conserve energy.

Question 67

According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," an anthropologiswas hired to find ouwhy customers oa utility company failed to reduce energy consumption, despite their claims thathey were trying to conserve.He discovered that

A)customers were lying.
B)thermostats were faulty.
C)meters were faulty.
D)fathers turned down thermostats, other family members turned them up.

Question 68

In "Using Anthropology," McCurdy assesses thaone disadvantage ousing the ethnographic approach in managemenis thaworkers come to feel thano one cares abouthem.

Question 69

McCurdy claims in "Using Anthropology" thain many companies, newly installed managers tend to

A)listen to their employees' suggestions.
B)ask employees to teach them the new job.
C)leave their employees alone.
D)impose a new agenda on their employees.

Question 70

In "Using Anthropology," McCurdy argues tha is an importanskill thapeople who study anthropology can take into daily life.

A)ethnography
B)knowledge of particular cultures
C)the ability to conduct survey research
D)knowledge of cross-cultural economics

Question 71

According to Stryker in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," the state asked the ethnographic projecshe directed to assess

A)how women access health care in prison.
B)the effects of overcrowding.
C)whether the position of MTA should be abolished.
D)how much female inmates should be paid for their work.

Question 72

According to McCurdy in "Using Anthropology," the firsthing a new manager aUTC did after assuming a new position was to

A)shrink-wrap books in the warehouse.
B)ask warehouse workers, customer outlet staff, and other employees about problems and procedures.
C)ask previous warehouse managers for advice.
D)change the counting and shipping procedures in the warehouse.