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ANTH Final Question and answers 100% correct 2024/2025 ANTH Final :) Multi-sited ethnography, which is one method anthropologists use to study transnational phenomena, is a version of the comparative method. - correct answer True Keri Brondo argues that no matter where they are employed�...

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ANTH Final :)
Multi-sited ethnography, which is one method anthropologists use to study
transnational phenomena, is a version of the comparative method. - correct
answer ✔True


Keri Brondo argues that no matter where they are employed—academia,
government, or the private sector—most anthropologists share in common a
commitment to using theories about culture to engage with the problems of
our times. - correct answer ✔True


The central role of a txiv neeb in Hmong culture is to organize people
politically, something like a chief or headman. - correct answer ✔False


According to Keri Brondo, some anthropologists practice _______
scholarship, which is a values-driven approach to research that is
collaborative, reciprocal, and generates new knowledge that is shared by
partners in the research. - correct answer ✔engaged


Fadiman's notion that she was suspended in a bowl of "fish soup" while
learning about Hmong culture strongly parallels the anthropological concept of
__________, which refers to the ways different aspects of a society are
integrated and overlapping. - correct answer ✔holism


The Hmong recognize many things that can cause illness but according to
Fadiman the most common cause of illness they identify is _____ _____. -
correct answer ✔soul loss


If the world is not becoming homogenized, what is actually happening?
According to Welsch and Vivanco, most anthropologists would say: - correct

,answer ✔"Persistent border-crossing, media flows, and so on generate
hybridity, or the intermingling and fusion of cultures."


The Hmong concept of qua dab peg ("the spirit catches you and you fall
down"), from which Lia suffers, is understood by her family and community to
be: - correct answer ✔A difficult but blessed condition that could make her a
healer


Which of the following best illustrates the ideals of "public anthropology" as
described by Brondo? - correct answer ✔An anthropology professor writing a
weekly column for an online news site like the Washington Post


The story of sushi's global rise is the result of an interplay between dynamics
of transnational industries, markets, and culture. What is the cultural
dimension of this story, according to Theodore Bestor? - correct answer
✔Cultural control—the close association of sushi with Japanese cultural
identity, which is grounded in ethnic biases and flows of labor in the fishing
and restaurant industries


According to Anne Fadiman, the Hmong cannot withstand the pressure to
assimilate into U.S. culture, and their distinctive identity and traditions are
likely to soon disappear. - correct answer ✔False


The Hmong have long viewed mobility and migration as a way of preserving
their culture and autonomy. - correct answer ✔True


Anne Fadiman believes that Lia's life was ruined, not by a hospital-acquired
septic shock or non-compliant parents, but by cross-cultural
misunderstanding. - correct answer ✔True

, You wake up one day feeling like you've got a bad cold. Your roommate
insists you stay in bed instead of going to class and goes to the cafeteria to
get you chicken soup. Anthropologists would say that you and your roommate
are enacting a model of appropriate behavior for a person who is ill, which is
called the _____ _____. - correct answer ✔sick role


Tara Heffernan, who studied American patterns of childbirth, observes that
childbirth has been pathologized, home births have been discredited, and
laws rewritten to define physician control over birthing. In other words,
childbirth has been turned into a medical problem, a process anthropologists
call ________________. - correct answer ✔medicalization


The terms anthropologists use to identify a patient's own culturally-embedded
understanding of their affliction is _______________ __________ __
___________. Quag dab peg, or "The spirit catches you and you fall down," is
the Hmong version of this for the seizure disorder we call "epilepsy. - correct
answer ✔explanatory model of illness


Which of the following does not illustrate the social power and authority of
medicine in Fadiman's book? - correct answer ✔A txiv neeb and a physician
collaborating to decide on the course of Lia's treatment


Which of the following situations is most closely associated with the distinction
medical anthropologists make between disease and illness? - correct answer
✔Nathaniel tells his primary care physician about a persistent pain in his
chest, and after a few tests is sent home because none of the tests can
confirm his account


Which of the following situations from the film Shadows and Illuminations
illustrates medicalization? - correct answer ✔Pak Kereta goes to a
psychologist who diagnoses him with schizophrenia and gives him pills

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