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| What was the intervention philosophy of the British empire? |
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| Which of the following statements about Spanish colonialism is NOT true |
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| It began to fall apart after WWII |
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| Political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended period of time |
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| A single world system committed to production for sale or exchange, with the object of maximizing profits known as |
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| You've been studying the culture of the anceitn people of Veracruz, Mexico by doing survey and excavation, examining the tools, pottery, and houses and temple structures they left behind 1000 years ago. What are you doing? |
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| Moctezuma was obsessed with |
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| are those societies believed to be living as pure as the Garden of Eden |
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| People from the same culture can predict one another's behavior because |
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| culture conditions behavior |
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| _____: political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by foreign power for an extended period of time |
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| What is NOT one of the subdisciplines of anthropology |
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| developmental anthropology |
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| What are the subdisciplines of anthropology |
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| cultural, biological, linguistic, archaeological |
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| Why were the Khoikhoi considered the 'epitome' of savage by the European explorers? |
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| they had few possessions and aimlessly herded cattle |
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| ______ was teh first academic anthropology professor of Oxford, generally known as an 'armchair anthropologist; he studied the development of religions and believed that 'animism' the belief in spirits was the first belief in supernaturalism |
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| What does the Age of Discovery, which occurred between the late 15th and 19th centuries refer to? |
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| European's discovery of the extraordinary 'global' biological and cultural diversity |
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| The emergence of the World System |
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| began with european exploration in the 15th c, began with the development of monocrop production economies, and paved the way for major exchanges of people, resources, ideas and diseases |
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| the emergence of colonial plantation economies fueled the |
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| trans atlantic salve trade |
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| a series of processes that work to make modern nations and people increasingly interlinked and mutually dependent is called |
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| Aztecs fed the sun god daily with CHALCHIHUATL the vital sacrificial fluid that came from the human heart, the very symbol of ____ |
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| True or False: Determining the historical facts regarding the Aztecs is often difficult because they were brilliant propagandists and often have incomplete accounts which blend actual events, legends, dreams, and aspirations |
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| what was the man capital of the Aztec Empire? |
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| Why did Moctezuma admit Cortes into the city and accord him divine honors? |
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| He thought Cortes was fulfilling a divine prophesy |
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| what does the perched eagle on the cactus symbolize in Aztec religion |
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| the sun god & the human heart |
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| True or False: the myth of the noble savage was created at home and then backed up by travelers returning home with romantic and imaginative stories |
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| the changing attitudes of westerners to non-western societies forma fascinating backdrop to what we may loosely term the ____ |
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| true or false: all cultures are adapted to their particular physical conditions and social environment |
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| true or false: imperialism is as old as the state |
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| the hierarchal model that emerged through the encounters of nonwestern peoples during colonial expansion and is part of the emergence (or roots) of anthropology is known as |
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| anthropology fundamentalism |
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| what types of communications are universal, according to Brian Fagan, author of Clash of Cultures |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: anthropologists, with their museums and artifacts, are a modern rendition of the west's preoccupation with descriptions and classifications of unusual beings, customs, and practices |
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| Captain Cook's Tahitians were considered |
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| childlike and innocent, virtuous and noble, and pure and natural |
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| the ____ myth became a universal image of the nature of human existance, a form of historical philosophy that had profound lessons for people despairing of their own civilization |
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| which book exemplifies the contrast between european civilization and non-western society |
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| Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" |
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| the purpose of Cook's expedition to Tahiti was |
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| there existed a strong desire in the 18th c European society to |
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| return to a "natural state of being |
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| at the time of Western contact, the Tasmanian population lived in |
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| according to the AAA (American Anthropological Association) Statement on "race" |
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| race is a cultural term to identify different histories, languages, etc |
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| according to the AA statement, 'race' was modeled after the ____ which posited natural categories on a hierarchy established by God or nature |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: so called racial groups are not consequences of their biological inheritance, but products of historical and contemporary social, economic, educational and political circumstances |
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| what emperor encouraged scientific research as a way of fostering nationalism? |
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| what was NOT part of the Tasmanian diet? |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: like other civilizations tasmania was to flourish after europeans introduced new tools and christianity |
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| why were the Tasmanian's considered such a strange oddity? |
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| they ran around naked, bodies had tattoos, bodies were full of raised marks (keloids) |
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| the Tasmanian's scheduled their lives around |
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| what paleontologist was famous for his comparative analysis and noted that there were no differences between Negros and whites? |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: Tasmanian's represented all the virtues of the Noble SAvage |
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| who was responsible for writing the "rules for better establishing a regular and uniform trade for provisions with the inhabitants?" |
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| Tasmanians were branded what type of people? |
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| murderers and viscous beasts |
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| the romantic view of noble savage changed and europeans began to see the natives as ignorant and dirty - what caused this 'paradigm' shift? |
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| Darwin's explanation of natural selection, 'scientific explanations' for the evolution of societies, and the idea that European man was highest on the Great Chain of Being |
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| what was the end result from the change in attitude toward social evolution on the Tasmanians? |
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| ____ believed that loyalty to ogd came first and transcended all commitments to any culture |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: the majority of western people believed it was their divine mission to protect non-western cultures and bring them to god |
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| Tahiti became what kind of symbol from the stresses of European civilization? |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: race like human nature, is culturally constructed |
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| what is NOT a ramification of social darwinism |
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| the ___ missionaries, also known as godly mechanics were inflexible in their belief that the bible was the sole authority |
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| why didn't hte missionaries train the local people in Tahiti for the ministry |
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| because they believed they had to be civilized first |
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| TRUE OR FALSE:the US of the early 20th c was fundamentally racisit |
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| Pomare II of Tahiti was known for |
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| ushering in the Christian era |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: the cartoon character the TASMANIAN DEVIL was officially adopted as the mascot for modern day tasmania |
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| herman melville the author of moby dick visited tahiti and was very critical of |
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| what was NOT a consequence of european contact and colonial governance in Tahiti |
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| the emergence of an upper class for the natives |
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| in the late 19th c there was a strong belief that science could improve the human race through |
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| what ethnicity ruled the basketball courts in the 1930s? |
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| the belief that hard work and profit making would lead the people to Christ was part of the |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: some populations due to their body shape and size are better equipped for particular sport activities |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: the ranked order of living things from simplest to the most complex is the great chain of being |
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| who was chosen by the british admirality to lead the expedition to Tahiti to witness planet venus's transit over the usn on june 3rd, 1769 |
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| the "societe des observateurs" was a french scientific organization dedicated to |
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| self knowledge and the advancement of humanity's perfection and happiness |
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| the myth of the ___ flourished and lingered in the european mind for generations after their glorious excursions across the pages of hawkesworth's publication of cook's voyage |
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| by which century did literature about with voyages and memories that illustrated exotic peoples of the globe and the nature of savagery |
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| cook's rules on trading with the Tahititans were devised for the purpose of |
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| regulating trade, avoiding confrontations, and maintaining stable rates of exchange |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: the evangelicals believed that god had created nature for humans to master and dominate, so they could acquire domination over the earth |
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| many of the most enduring stereotypes of non-westerners were planted in european minds. these stereotypes included: |
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| lack of religion, cannibalism, and primitiveness |
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| what did francois peron assume about the savages? |
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| they were healthier, stronger, physically superior to europoeans |
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| what did the Tahititans regard as one of life's greatest pleasures |
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| what society was still considered in the stone age by the time of mid 1800s |
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| ___ had a passion for science and exploration, he is also responsible for the discovery of the rosetta stone in egypt |
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| the first permanent settlers to tasmania were mainly |
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| cook's sailors contracted what type of diseases after european contact with tahitians |
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| in the end, what nation took tasmania under their protection once the missionaries efforts failed in 1843 |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: polygenists generally took a less human line toward non-westerners |
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| ___ and ____ had raised the cross in the wake of the conquistadors, scourging and cajoling thousands of Mayan and Aztec indians into the Christian fold |
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| westerners conception of their own civilization began to improve & their self esteem began to reach new heights. which was NOT one of the new european "catchwords" used (part of the vocab of revolution and profound social change) |
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| who wrote the origin of species? |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: monogenists believed that humankind was divided into a series of unchanging races of diverse origin, whose characteristics could be defined by precise skull measurements |
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| what was the name of the ship captain james cook commanded? |
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| the tahitians belief system consisted of |
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| spiritual powers and beings |
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| who coined the term 'survival of the fittest'? |
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| TRUE OR FALSE: the piltdown discovery though thought to be the missing link between man and ape, turned out to be a fraud |
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| why is the concept of missing link a false assumption? |
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| intelligence was believed to be the difference between ape and man, so scientists were looking for a large brained ape instead of bipedialism; evolution does not go in small equal increments of lineage progression that can be traced with each transition; there is greater evidence of human evolution in the fossil record than any other evolutionary sequence - there is no missing link |
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