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Question 1:

In Japanese business relationships, the meishi, or business card, ________.
a) is a symbol of the owner’s status
b) helps establish the relationship between the parties
c) is an important object in the introduction ritual
d) all of the above

Question 2:

According to Umberto Melotti, ________ is the immigration policy where immigrants and their offspring are always considered outsiders or “guests,” even when the offspring are born within the new country.
a) uneven pluralism
b) the institutionalization of precariousness
c) pillarization
d) ethnocentric assimilation

Question 3:

The Samoan faamatai and the Western system of democracy are similar in that in both systems, ________.
a) elected leaders are responsible for representing the interests of their constituents
b) elected leaders tend to be older males
c) anyone is free to run for office
d) elected officials must be selected from aristocratic lineages, or upper-class families

Question 4:

Anthropologist Alexander Ervin worked with ________ when participating in collaborative, community-based research.
a) Samoan faamatai
b) Latin American countries
c) the Saskatoon Social Planning Council
d) Northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo

Question 5:

Anthropologist Melissa Checker lists ________ core themes in “action” anthropological work.
a) two
b) four
c) six
d) eight

Question 6:

Some Samoans are opposed to Western parliamentary democracy because this system would disrupt the tradition of leadership through chiefly lineages.
a) True
b) False

Question 7:

All of the nations in the European Union have strictly separated religion from the state.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

Anthropologists generally agree that all human societies are equally good and life-enhancing for the societies’ members.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

Anthropologists generally agree that all human societies and the perspectives they possess are equally valid.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Racial tensions in the neighbourhood of Rione Monti, Rome are the result of the historically right-wing values held by the long-time residents of the neighbourhood.
a) True
b) False

Question 11:

Serge Tcherkézoff believes that Samoans should fully return to the faamatai system because it is less flawed than the Western democratic system.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Biological anthropologists have contributed significantly to the defence of human rights in the world.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Cultural Anthropology, Third Edition: Chapter 14