Do people in your own society have any beliefs regarding the role of supernatural forces in health and illness? Give examples and compare these to cross-cultural patterns identified by medical anthropologists.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Specific examples arguing for or against the belief in supernatural forces
2. Comparisons with cross-cultural patterns—retribution for bad behavior, fate, or loss of soul
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Lisa Rose and Fiona Marshall have suggested that meat eating would have
A) fostered increased sociality B) resulted in home bases C) brought individuals together for social interaction and carcass processing D) all of the above E) none of the above
What is the first step in doing ethnographic fieldwork?
a. Doing preparatory research b. Choosing a research question c. Participant observation on site d. Gathering data e. Choosing a theoretical approach
Markus and Kitayama characterize the concept of the __________ self as a primarily Western notion
a. interdependent b. cognitive c. dependent d. independent
All of the following are true about race except: a. Race exists as a social and political category that promotes inequality in some societies. b. Biological evidence demonstrates unequivocally that separate human races do not exist. c. Scientists disagree on the number of biological human races that exist
d. Gene flow throughout evolutionary history has maintained humans as a single species.