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Pop Quiz: Anthropology 101

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1.

Polyandry is the practice in which many men, usually brothers, marry a single woman. In which of these countries is polyandry practiced?

Algeria
China
Tibet

2.

In pre-1947 India, these people were excluded from the caste system. Although they performed important economic functions, such as shoemaking and cleaning the community, they existed outside the accepted ranking system, and as such were pariahs in the community.

Untouchables
Warriors
Brahmins

3.

This word refers to a system of growing crops based on gardening in which no plow is used.

Omniculture
Horticulture
Agriculture

4.

This word refers to the tendency for a person to see one's own culture as the standard by which other cultures should be judged. It can also refer to the tendency to view one's own culture as superior to all other cultures.

Ethnography
Ethnocentrism
Ethnology

5.

This word refers to the smallest unit of meaning in a language.

morpheme
phoneme
syllable

6.

The traditional myths, legends, beliefs, stories and customs of a people, transmitted within a culture orally, are referred to as:

culture pool
folklore
witchcraft

7.

The Middle Eastern proverb "I against my brothers; my brothers and I against my cousins; my cousins, my brothers and I against the world." illustrates the notion of

segmental opposition
lineage systems
kinship

8.

A ritual held at a certain point in a person's life to mark the end of one stage of life and the beginning of another is called a:

rite of passage
sanction
ceremony

9.

The process by which culture spreads across a geographical area is called

diffusion
transfusion
evolution