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| A major difference between Brazilian and American racial classifications is that |
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US- determined at birth and does not change
Brazil- Can change day to day |
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| Policies and practices that harm a group and its members are known as |
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| are groups assumed to have a biological basis, but they are defined in a culturally arbitrary manner. |
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| The Holocaust is an example of |
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| _______ are ethnic groups that once had, or wish to have or regain, autonomous political status. |
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| ________ automatically places the children of a union between members of different groups in the minority group. |
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| ________ is the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States. |
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| ________ is the identification with, and feeling part of, a cultural group, and exclusion from other cultural groups. |
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| ________ refers to a person's ability to emphasize different identities in different social contexts. |
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| Situational negotiation of identity |
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| ________ refers to the devaluing of a group because of its assumed behavior, values, abilities, or attributes. |
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| ________ refers to the view that cultural diversity in a country is something good and desirable. |
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| When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, what defined social status? |
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| During the first 50 years in the American colonies, most of the plantation laborers were: |
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| indentured servants from Europe |
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| Early perceptions of Native Americans were that they differed from white Europeans in terms of culture; they were savages, but could be civilized. |
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| The film attributes _______________ as first putting forth the idea that there were genetic differences between blacks and whites. |
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| The biggest conflict between whites and Native Americans in the early 1800s was based on: |
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| The fact that the Cherokee and other Native Americans did not readily give up their lands to white settlers was used to justify the belief held by whites that there was a biologically based, inherent difference between the two groups of people that made whites the more superior "race." |
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| A political system ruled by men in which women have inferior status is a(n) |
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| According to Tylor, religion evolves through the sequence of |
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| animism, polytheism, monotheism |
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| Belief in mana was especially prominent in |
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| a feeling of great social solidarity, equality, and togetherness. |
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| Cross-cultural studies indicate that |
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| in most societies, women tend to be primary caregiver |
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| is generally reduced when domestic and public spheres are not sharply segergated |
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| Rites of passage usually consist of three phases: |
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| separation, liminality, incorperation |
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| The domestic-public dichotomy is defined as a strong differentiation between |
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| The fact that chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates engage in masturbation and same-sex sexual activity suggests that |
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| flexibility in sexual expression is part of humans' primate heritage. |
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| The largest religion in the world, in terms of number of practitioners, is |
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| The term ________ refers to the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to the sexes. |
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| The term intersex describes |
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| discrepancy between external and internal genitals. |
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| Which of these statements is NOT true? |
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| "Sexual orientation is genetically predetermined; culture plays no role in its expression." |
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| ________ have arisen in colonial situations in which local people have regular contact with outsiders but lack their wealth, technology, and living standards. |
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| ________ involves the belief that whatever is done to an object will affect a person who once had contact with it. |
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| ________ is NOT part of the patrilineal-patrilocal complex. |
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| reduced gender stratification |
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| ________ is/are NOT culturally constructed. |
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| ________ refers to the manipulation of the supernatural to accomplish specific goals. |
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| ________ was one of the founders of the anthropology of religion. |
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