Ethnographic explorations of migrant and refugee lives can help show why refugee camps are not viable “durable solutions”. Which of these is NOT another durable solution discussed in the course material?
Question 26 options:
resettlement | |
alienation | |
integration | |
repatriation |
The Free Trade Zones depicted in Life and Debt use US tax dollars to incentivize foreign companies’ work there. What is forbidden in these factories?
Question 27 options:
interpretation | |
unionization | |
labour | |
development |
Anthropologists have observed that many migrants have experiences of displacement and refuge, even if the UN does not technically consider them to be refugees. This is because the UN definition of a refugee
Question 28 options:
is quite restrictive | |
is animated by economic justice | |
is animated by social justice | |
is fairly open-ended |
For women in Afghanistan, problems of malnutrition, poverty, and ill health were:
Question 29 options:
More prevalent in women wearing the burqa. | |
A result of the Taliban rejecting globalization. | |
Caused by many factors other than the Taliban. | |
Caused largely by Taliban exclusion of women. |
A functionalist anthropologist like Malinowski would argue that magic
Question 30 options:
helps people imagine alternative possibilities | |
is a symbolic and logical contradiction | |
is a primitive form of play | |
helps people control uncertain realities |
Anthropologist James C. Scott argues that stratified societies and unstratified societies should be understood as
Question 31 options:
evolutionary progressions | |
non-linear entanglements | |
entertaining stereotypes | |
devolutionary symptoms |
Religious syncretism refers to
Question 32 options:
The separation of church and state | |
Ritual sacrifices | |
The adoption of a new worldview | |
The creative synthesis of old practices and new ones |
Which of these statements reflects Farmer’s account of structural violence?
Question 33 options:
Structural violence happens through environmental corrosion to national/municipal infrastructure | |
Structural violence is rare, therefore difficult to depict | |
Structural violence is less important than direct violence or oppression | |
Structural violence is perpetuated by the membership of social order rather than by an individual actor |
There has been a broad trend in many developed nations toward
Question 34 options:
Admitting increased numbers of climate refugees | |
Admitting more refugees, since demand has increased | |
Admitting fewer refugees in favor of keeping them camps near their homelands | |
Admitting only refugees with family members already in the country |
The second half of the course focused on the themes of
Question 35 options:
religion and social justice | |
race and discipline | |
FIFA and politics | |
theology and natural science |
Biosocial analyses of disease are necessary because
Question 36 options:
the human brain and culture co-evolved | |
social inequalities are at the heart of structural violence | |
epidemiology is sufficient for understanding HIV but not TB | |
anthropologists don’t understand biology |
Ewing writes that anthropologists’ desire for neutrality (not judging their interlocutors) can
Question 37 options:
help them interpret their interlocutors | |
make them overly credulous | |
help them get further into their interlocutors’ worlds in an ethical way | |
conflict with their atheism, as they are drawn into their interlocutors’ worlds |
This is an example of informal dispute resolution:
Question 38 options:
detention by the police | |
mediation by a village elder | |
a penalty under the law | |
corporal punishment ordered by a judge |
An anthropological analysis can show how state secularism laws
Question 39 options:
are the right way to manage minority populations. | |
are the best way to ensure social harmony. | |
keep social domains in their proper place (private vs. public). | |
implicitly favours certain religions and produces social conflict |
One theme of colonial feminism, as argued by Edward Said and Lila Abu-Lughod, is that
Question 40 options:
“American” women need to be liberated from their religion and culture | |
“Occidental” women need to be liberated from their religion and culture | |
“Nacireman” women need to be liberated from their religion and culture | |
“Oriental” women need to be liberated from their religion and culture |
Bioarcheologists gain a broad understanding of violence by integrating the following forms of knowledge:
Question 41 options:
perimortem and premortem fractures | |
archeological context, social theory, and skeletal data | |
animal remains | |
a focus on intragroup violence |
Turner writes that the dialectic of immediacy (communitas) and mediacy (structure) is fundamental to society. Communitas represents
Question 42 options:
the realm of possibility | |
the domain of impossibility | |
biological instinct | |
cosmological realism |
A functionalist anthropologist like Malinowski would argue that a creation myth
Question 43 options:
justifies social arrangements in the present | |
imagines other possibilities | |
is a pleasant folktale | |
resolves logical contradictions in human social experience |
One tactic of Indigenous resistance to colonial extraction is blockading its machinery. Audra Simpson calls this
Question 44 options:
the stand-off at Oka | |
beaver wisdom | |
capitalist economics | |
a politics of refusal |
Ndembu chief initiations include a long harangue in which the chief-elect is berated for being selfish and mean. What is the social purpose of this ritual?
Question 45 options:
To remind the chief not to keep his chieftainship to himself | |
To fetishize past behavior | |
To define orthopraxy | |
To assert control over random contingencies |
The film Wajd features Sufi musicians from Syria. Their music, which expresses a longing for God, also speaks to their experiences of displacement. The film also depicts
Question 46 options:
all of the above | |
their resilience | |
them missing their families | |
the destruction of the war |
In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow argue that the story we tell ourselves about ourselves — that we are the end of history, that we are the most sophisticated form of human existence — is
Question 47 options:
supported by archaeological evidence | |
entirely wrong | |
messianic | |
fundamentally correct |
Anthropologists have argued over whether or not you can define “religion” universally. Which of the following is NOT a position taken seriously in this debate?
Question 48 options:
Religion is an anthropological category | |
Religion is a cultural system | |
Religion is the opiate of the masses | |
Religion is ideas and practices that give a perspective on extra-sensory reality |
My office hours for the term were held on
Question 49 options:
Thursdays | |
Fridays | |
Mondays | |
Wednesdays |
Michel Foucault argued that modern power just hits different. He called the kind of diffuse power that shapes our behavior in everyday interactions, which tries to shape our souls into rational subjects,
Question 50 options:
disciplinary power | |
sovereign power | |
hidden transcripts | |
authoritarian power |