Question 26 (0.5 points)

 

Ethnographic explorations of migrant and refugee lives can help show why refugee camps are not viable “durable solutions”. Which of these is NOT another durable solution discussed in the course material?

Question 26 options:

	resettlement
	alienation
	integration
	repatriation

Question 27 (0.5 points)

 

The Free Trade Zones depicted in Life and Debt use US tax dollars to incentivize foreign companies’ work there. What is forbidden in these factories?

Question 27 options:

	interpretation
	unionization
	labour
	development

Question 28 (0.5 points)

 

Anthropologists have observed that many migrants have experiences of displacement and refuge, even if the UN does not technically consider them to be refugees. This is because the UN definition of a refugee

Question 28 options:

	is quite restrictive
	is animated by economic justice
	is animated by social justice
	is fairly open-ended

Question 29 (0.5 points)

 

For women in Afghanistan, problems of malnutrition, poverty, and ill health were:

Question 29 options:

	More prevalent in women wearing the burqa.
	A result of the Taliban rejecting globalization.
	Caused by many factors other than the Taliban.
	Caused largely by Taliban exclusion of women.

 

Question 30 (0.5 points)

 

A functionalist anthropologist like Malinowski would argue that magic

Question 30 options:

	helps people imagine alternative possibilities
	is a symbolic and logical contradiction
	is a primitive form of play
	helps people control uncertain realities

 

Question 31 (0.5 points)

 

Anthropologist James C. Scott argues that stratified societies and unstratified societies should be understood as

Question 31 options:

	evolutionary progressions
	non-linear entanglements
	entertaining stereotypes
	devolutionary symptoms

Question 32 (0.5 points)

 

Religious syncretism refers to

Question 32 options:

	The separation of church and state
	Ritual sacrifices
	The adoption of a new worldview
	The creative synthesis of old practices and new ones

 

Question 33 (0.5 points)

 

Which of these statements reflects Farmer’s account of structural violence?

Question 33 options:

	Structural violence happens through environmental corrosion to national/municipal infrastructure
	Structural violence is rare, therefore difficult to depict
	Structural violence is less important than direct violence or oppression
	Structural violence is perpetuated by the membership of social order rather than by an individual actor

Question 34 (0.5 points)

 

There has been a broad trend in many developed nations toward

Question 34 options:

	Admitting increased numbers of climate refugees
	Admitting more refugees, since demand has increased
	Admitting fewer refugees in favor of keeping them camps near their homelands
	Admitting only refugees with family members already in the country

 

Question 35 (0.5 points)

 

The second half of the course focused on the themes of

Question 35 options:

	religion and social justice
	race and discipline
	FIFA and politics
	theology and natural science

Question 36 (0.5 points)

 

Biosocial analyses of disease are necessary because

Question 36 options:

	the human brain and culture co-evolved
	social inequalities are at the heart of structural violence
	epidemiology is sufficient for understanding HIV but not TB
	anthropologists don’t understand biology

 

Question 37 (0.5 points)

 

Ewing writes that anthropologists’ desire for neutrality (not judging their interlocutors) can

Question 37 options:

	help them interpret their interlocutors
	make them overly credulous
	help them get further into their interlocutors’ worlds in an ethical way
	conflict with their atheism, as they are drawn into their interlocutors’ worlds

Question 38 (0.5 points)

 

This is an example of informal dispute resolution:

Question 38 options:

	detention by the police
	mediation by a village elder
	a penalty under the law
	corporal punishment ordered by a judge

Question 39 (0.5 points)

 

An anthropological analysis can show how state secularism laws

Question 39 options:

	are the right way to manage minority populations.
	are the best way to ensure social harmony.
	keep social domains in their proper place (private vs. public).
	implicitly favours certain religions and produces social conflict

 

Question 40 (0.5 points)

 

One theme of colonial feminism, as argued by Edward Said and Lila Abu-Lughod, is that

Question 40 options:

	“American” women need to be liberated from their religion and culture
	“Occidental” women need to be liberated from their religion and culture
	“Nacireman” women need to be liberated from their religion and culture
	“Oriental” women need to be liberated from their religion and culture

Question 41 (0.5 points)

 

Bioarcheologists gain a broad understanding of violence by integrating the following forms of knowledge:

Question 41 options:

	perimortem and premortem fractures
	archeological context, social theory, and skeletal data
	animal remains
	a focus on intragroup violence

Question 42 (0.5 points)

 

Turner writes that the dialectic of immediacy (communitas) and mediacy (structure) is fundamental to society. Communitas represents

Question 42 options:

	the realm of possibility
	the domain of impossibility
	biological instinct
	cosmological realism

 

 

 

Question 43 (0.5 points)

 

A functionalist anthropologist like Malinowski would argue that a creation myth

Question 43 options:

	justifies social arrangements in the present
	imagines other possibilities
	is a pleasant folktale
	resolves logical contradictions in human social experience

Question 44 (0.5 points)

 

One tactic of Indigenous resistance to colonial extraction is blockading its machinery. Audra Simpson calls this

Question 44 options:

	the stand-off at Oka
	beaver wisdom
	capitalist economics
	a politics of refusal

Question 45 (0.5 points)

 

Ndembu chief initiations include a long harangue in which the chief-elect is berated for being selfish and mean. What is the social purpose of this ritual?

Question 45 options:

	To remind the chief not to keep his chieftainship to himself
	To fetishize past behavior
	To define orthopraxy
	To assert control over random contingencies

Question 46 (0.5 points)

 

The film Wajd features Sufi musicians from Syria. Their music, which expresses a longing for God, also speaks to their experiences of displacement. The film also depicts

Question 46 options:

	all of the above
	their resilience
	them missing their families
	the destruction of the war

Question 47 (0.5 points)

 

In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow argue that the story we tell ourselves about ourselves — that we are the end of history, that we are the most sophisticated form of human existence — is

Question 47 options:

	supported by archaeological evidence
	entirely wrong
	messianic
	fundamentally correct

 

 

Question 48 (0.5 points)

 

Anthropologists have argued over whether or not you can define “religion” universally. Which of the following is NOT a position taken seriously in this debate?

Question 48 options:

	Religion is an anthropological category
	Religion is a cultural system
	Religion is the opiate of the masses
	Religion is ideas and practices that give a perspective on extra-sensory reality

Question 49 (0.5 points)

 

My office hours for the term were held on

Question 49 options:

	Thursdays
	Fridays
	Mondays
	Wednesdays

Question 50 (0.5 points)

 

Michel Foucault argued that modern power just hits different. He called the kind of diffuse power that shapes our behavior in everyday interactions, which tries to shape our souls into rational subjects,

Question 50 options:

	disciplinary power
	sovereign power
	hidden transcripts
	authoritarian power