SCL ANTHROPOLOGY FINAL TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2024/2025
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SCL ANTHROPOLOGY FINAL TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2024/2025
Social construction
A) is responsible for the concept of race
B) improves the ability of the built environment to withstand challenges of climate
C) discriminates against poorer constructors
D) predominates over biological construct...
SCL ANTHROPOLOGY FINAL TEST
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2024/2025
Social construction
A) is responsible for the concept of race
B) improves the ability of the built environment to withstand challenges of climate
C) discriminates against poorer constructors
D) predominates over biological construction among more advanced cultures - ANSWERSA) is
responsible for the concept of race
Prof. Kalmar argued that
A) difference in itself does not cause prejudice
B) the variety of language and culture among humans is potentially infinite
C) no one in the classroom could spend 1 minute in silence without words running through their head
D) the digital revolution will save humanity from extinction - ANSWERSA) Difference in itself does not
cause prejudice
Prof. Kalmar said that racialization
A) can happen when there is competition for resources
B) is not real
C) always happens when people look sufficiently different
D) appears as society becomes more complex - ANSWERSA) Can happen when there is competition for
resources
When you think of what languages and cultures might logically be possible, you find that in fact the
existing languages and cultures
A) resemble each other to a remarkable extent
B) have an unlimited range
C) are more different than similar to one another
, D) have developed independently of history - ANSWERSA) resemble each other to a remarkable extent
Prof. Kalmar suggested that, in anthropology,
A) we are especially fascinated by primitive religion
B) we need not differentiate between religion and spirituality
C) we are spiritual but not religious
D) we support the right to insult religion - ANSWERSB) we need not differentiate between religion and
spirituality
In the lecture it was suggested that if we interpreted religion in Lacan's terms,
A) religion would be a way to link reality and the real
B) religion is about icons and spirituality is about indices
C)Lacan would have to be seen as a radical atheist
D) religion represents the symbolic stage - ANSWERSA) religion would be a way to link reality and the
real
Galileo believed that if the Bible seems not to agree with (what we would now call) science, then
A) there is something wrong with science
B) we haven't understood the Bible
C) we must reject the Bible
D) we must go with the literal meaning of the Bible - ANSWERSB) we haven't understood the Bible
Idolatry
A) equates the signified with the signifier
B) is obligatory in Abrahamic religions
C) is a literalist form of disenchantment
D) is a form of arbitrary signification - ANSWERSA) equates the signified with the signifier
In class, it was suggested that an "imagined community" was
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