ANTA02 Final Exam Prep

What questions about “progress” might you expect to be asked by contemporary anthropologists?

(Multiple correct answers)

• How can we help other cultures progress?

• How is progress related to social hierarchy?

• 1. When will humans complete cultural progress?

• 1. What political or economic actions are justified in the language of progress?

What generally explains changes to subsistence strategies through human history?

• Intensive agriculture = developed society

• 1. Agriculture makes life easier and more efficient

• 1. Increased population density made foraging/hunting difficult

• 1. Agricultural technologies create more egalitarian societies

What did L.H. Morgan assume when creating his model of cultural development (savagery > barbarism > civilization)?

• 1. All human groups progress through each stage at differing paces

• 1. Cultural evolution is radically different than biological evolution

• 1. Some cultural groups are forever developmentally “stuck”

TRUE/FALSE: According to anthropologists, race is a biological fact

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following have historically contributed to normalizing/naturalizing racial differences? (Multiple correct answers)

• Intelligence tests

• Skull size (phrenology)

• Kinship diagrams

• Intersectionality

Markers of identity which are fixed at birth are examples of: 

• Achieved status

• Class

• Caste

• Ascribed status

The American Dream or being able to achieve a higher status through hard work and effort is an example of:

• Plutocracy

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Meritocracy

For Whampagoostui Cree, "being alive well" generally refers to

• Getting rid of illness

• Physiological wellbeing

• Connection to land and identity

• A biomedical health model

The Couple in a Cage documentary illuminates:

• The importance of displaying dying cultures

• That colonial representations of culture are enduring

• That Americans will believe anything in a museum

• That when people progress, they need to leave the past behind

For Whampagoostui Cree, stories about these themes help define being alive well (Multiple correct answers):

• Warmth

• Cree Food

• The Whiteman

• Strength/Endurance