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ANTH 411 Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025 ANTH 411: Final Exam Identity - correct answer Multiple and complex ways in which people come to define themselves Either by choice or by ascription How I define myself Examples: Age, Ethnic, National/Regional, Professional, ...

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ANTH 411: Final Exam
Identity - correct answer ✔Multiple and complex ways in which people come
to define themselves


Either by choice or by ascription


How I define myself


Examples: Age, Ethnic, National/Regional, Professional, Vocational,
Religious, Political, Gender, Sexual, Bodily, Relationship-based


Is a social construct (something that we/others/society actively creates and
perpetuates)


Situational Negotiation of identity - correct answer ✔Type of Identity


Depending on the context, one of your identities will take precedent over the
others


Intersectionality - correct answer ✔Type of Identity


Interconnected nature of social categorizations (race,class, gender) as they
apply to an individual or group


Status - correct answer ✔Relative social position within a group


Get it through: Our achievements, or ascribed/ assigned to us

,Role - correct answer ✔Part that society expects us to play within a certain
status


Social group membership gives us a set of role tags that allow people to know
what to expect from each other


Achieved Status - correct answer ✔A status that is acquired by doing
something


Ascribed Status - correct answer ✔Status that is the result of being born into
a particular family or being born male or female


"Me" cultures - correct answer ✔Self comes first


Focus on growth/progress


Competitive


Individual achievement are earned and awarded


"We" culture - correct answer ✔Group comes first


Focus on tradition and precedent


Collaborative

,Success and position are ascribed


Religion - correct answer ✔A system of beliefs usually involving the worship
of supernatural forces or beings


Provide shape and meaning to one's perception of the universe


Full of psychological needs


Religious Rituals - correct answer ✔Performed in special places and under
special conditions


Removed from the ordinary world, the sacred acts are enhanced for the
believers


Reinforces the basic tenets of religion


Often charged with high emotions


Repetitive, formal, performed in specical places, social acts


Example: Going to church on Sunday is a common religious ritual for
Christians


Secular Rituals - correct answer ✔Non religious


Can make you "feel good", which reinforces your continuance of the practice

, Repetitive, formalized, rites of passage that takes place in non religious
settings


Example: Brushing your teeth when you wake up or when you go to bed


Day of the Dead - correct answer ✔Belief: Decesed continues to exist after
death and return each year to visit family


Special time is set aside to honor the deceased familiy members


Necessities: Candles, Bread, Mini- Skulls, and Marigolds


Includes: Parades, Fireworks, Cemeterys come alive


Mix of religious and secular rituals


Happens in Oaxaca


Imitative Magic - correct answer ✔Also called Sympathetic Magic


Based on the principle that "like produces like."


Basis for use of Voodoo dolls


Something done that closely reflects the desired outcome

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