legacies of violence quiz

Here is a compilation of questions and answers from the provided quizzes, with the correct answers highlighted:

• What is the name of the village in Sardinia that is the focus of Antonio Sorge's Legacies of Violence?

  • Orgosolo

• When do tutorials start for this class?

  • After the midterm

  • The first week of class

  • The second week of class

• How many books are assigned for this class?

  • 4

  • 1

  • 5

  • 3

  • 2

• What is the topic for Week 12?

  • Being Alive Well

  • So what? What now? What can you do with what you learn in Anthropology?

  • Exam review only

  • Resolving Conflict

• What is the name of the anthropologist whose definition of anthropology we discussed in the intro lecture?

  • Tim Ingold

  • Bronislaw Malinowski

  • Antonio Sorge

  • Naomi Adelson

  • Ella Deloria

• Which of the following is an unofficial name for the central highland area of Sardinia?

  • Barbagia

  • Orgosolo

  • Nuoro

  • Mediterranean

  • Barbequeria

• The Balinese cockfight and Canadian ice hockey are both "small-scale renderings", in their respective cultures, of what cultural concept or value?

  • Status

  • Rivalry

  • Dignity

  • Violence

  • Equal opportunity

• If an anthropologist from a culture that did not consider seal meat to be food wrote an ethnography that described another culture’s practice of eating seal meat as disgusting, barbaric, and wrong, this would be an example of:

  • moral relativism

  • biological anthropology

  • ethnocentrism

  • cultural relativism

• True or False: Society and culture are the same thing.

  • True

  • False

• Is sociocultural anthropology best characterized as part of the sciences or of the humanities?

  • Both

  • Humanities

• What is the term that anthropologists use to describe shared cultural perceptions of reality?

  • Worldview

  • Culture

  • Religion

  • Rite of passage

  • The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

• Which mode of livelihood (way of making a living) is most significant for understanding the unique history and contemporary social organization of Orgosolo?

  • Hunting

  • Fishing

  • Industrial agriculture

  • Pastoralism

  • Subsistence agriculture

• Geography alone cannot explain the worldview of the people of Orgosolo, but which geographic feature has had the greatest effect on the history, beliefs, and values of the people of Orgosolo?

  • Caves

  • Mountains

  • Rivers

  • Beaches

  • Prairies

• Which of the following is NOT a form of symbolic action?

  • art

  • ritual

  • myth

  • agriculture

  • dance

• What is a rite of passage?

  • A ritual that involves a symbolic or literal sacrifice.

  • The rights and responsibilities that one earns upon changing status

  • Having social permission to change one's status

  • A ritual that accompanies a change in status

• Which of the following people would an anthropologist classify as your parallel cousin?

  • The cousin with who you have the closest blood relationship.

  • Your mother's sister's child.

  • Your father's sister's child.

  • Your mother's brother's child.

  • The cousin with whom you have the closest relationship

• What is the basic unit of social organization in Orgosolo?

  • The people with whom one shares a herd of sheep

  • The patrilineage

  • The extended, multigenerational household

  • The nuclear family

  • The church congregation

• In Orgosolo, who are the members of a cricca?

  • Teammates a local sports team

  • A co-ed group of friends, usually people who went to school or church together

  • A close-knit group of men who are friends, hang out together, and look out for each other's interests

  • A group of elders who give advice to local youth

  • Members of one's extended family group

• What is a patrilineage?

  • A form of bilateral kinship classificaiton

  • A group of brothers and their wives.

  • Ego's closest male relatives

  • A lineage that is formed by tracing descent through men

  • A lineage that is formed by tracing descent through women

• What is a form of inheritance in which the goods or property of a family is divided among the heirs

  • The way that family traits are passed down biologically from one generation to the next.

  • A forms of inheritance in which family property is passed undivided to one heir.

  • The way that social expectations and cultural practices are passed down from one generation to the next.

  • A form of inheritance in which the goods or property of a family is divided among the heirsanswer text provided.

• True or False: All Orgolesi agree that balentia, and other values rooted in highland pastoral culture, provide a practical blueprint for how people in the village should live today.

  • True

  • False

• True or False: Contemporary Sardinia remains politically and economically isolated and separate from the rest of Italy, Europe, and the world.

  • True

  • False

• True or false: Traditionalists in Orgosolo love local traditions and practices; cosmopolitans in Orgosolo disdain these traditions and hope they disappear.

  • True

  • False

• True or false: Orgolese are mistrustful of outsiders, and are therefore reluctant to offer any hospitality to someone who visits them.

  • True

  • False

• The image of the rock art ("Shepherd at Rest") on the cover of the book symbolizes the intertwined significance of:

  • local landscape and local livelihood through pastoralism

  • local landscape and local creativity

  • landscape and vendetta (blood fued)

  • Shepherds and bandits

  • Shepherds and artists