ANTH 1000 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Colonialism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The political social, economics & cultural domination of a territory
and its people by foreign power for an extended period of time
Settler Colonialism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a form of colonialism that seeks to replace the original
population of the colonized territory with a new society of settlers.
covenant settler states - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Believe they have a mandate from God to settle in the
territory
Manifest Destiny - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the
United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Age of Discovery - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Time from contact with the Americas to end of American
Revolution
Causes of Decolonization - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Post WWI1., British empire weakens, nationalist
movements
Post colonialism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Everything that comes after is a product of it. 2nd half of 20th
century.
World bank and IMF - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅made loans and supervised economic policies of poor
nations keeps formerly colonized nations in a cycle of debt
Indigenous peoples - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅natives of an area who have been conquered or dominated
by others who came later
indigenous people "frozen in time" - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Salvage ethnography(boas)- try to
document everything before their gone- put them into a box where they are stuck in time and feel
pressure to conform to static notions of the "traditional indian"
,Noble Savage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a person who has not been corrupted by society or civilization
The residential school system - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅native american children are forcibly removed
from families under guise of saving them, part of policies aimed to eradicate Native American culture
sex - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the culturally agreed upon physical differences between male and female,
especially biological differences related to human reproduction
3 primary factors considered in determining biological sex - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅genitalia, gonads,
chromosomes
Gender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the expectations of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to
people of different sexes
sexual dimorphism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Differences in physical characteristics between males and
females of the same species.
gender identity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅each persons internal experience and understanding of their
own gender
gender expression - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the way in which a person expresses their gender identity,
typically through their appearance, dress, and behavior.
Transgender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identification with a gender that does not match one's biological
gender.
Cisgender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅individuals whose gender identity matches his or her biological sex
cultural construction of gender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the ways humans learn to behave as a man or
woman and to recognize behaviors as masculine or feminine within their cultural context
, gender performance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the way gender identity is expressed through action
Machismo in Mexico - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅macho stereotype includes self centered tough guys also
involved in drugs violence infidelity and gambling, but for the working class community, masculinityis a
shiftung landscape that depends on the circumstance
Intersex - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅possessing biological sexual characteristics of both sexes
Castor Semenya - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅muscular black woman; people believed that she
overproduced testosterone aka Hyperandrogenous
Intersex surgery - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅performed as a series of staged procedures to transform the
normal adult genitalia of one sex to that of the other sex; usually done before the child is old enough to
make a decision
Hijras - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅religious followers of the Hindu Mother Goddess, Bahuchara Mata, who
is often depicted and described as transgender
Two Spirit - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅an additional gender identity in many Native North American
cultures; often thought to have special spiritual powers
gender stratification - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege
between men and women
gender stereotypes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅widely held beliefs about characteristics deemed
appropriate for males and females
gender ideology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a set of cultural ideas, usually stereotypical, about the
essential character of different genders that functions to promote and justify gender stratification
gender violence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅forms of violence shaped by the gender identities of the
people involved
Colonialism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The political social, economics & cultural domination of a territory
and its people by foreign power for an extended period of time
Settler Colonialism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a form of colonialism that seeks to replace the original
population of the colonized territory with a new society of settlers.
covenant settler states - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Believe they have a mandate from God to settle in the
territory
Manifest Destiny - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the
United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Age of Discovery - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Time from contact with the Americas to end of American
Revolution
Causes of Decolonization - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Post WWI1., British empire weakens, nationalist
movements
Post colonialism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Everything that comes after is a product of it. 2nd half of 20th
century.
World bank and IMF - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅made loans and supervised economic policies of poor
nations keeps formerly colonized nations in a cycle of debt
Indigenous peoples - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅natives of an area who have been conquered or dominated
by others who came later
indigenous people "frozen in time" - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Salvage ethnography(boas)- try to
document everything before their gone- put them into a box where they are stuck in time and feel
pressure to conform to static notions of the "traditional indian"
,Noble Savage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a person who has not been corrupted by society or civilization
The residential school system - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅native american children are forcibly removed
from families under guise of saving them, part of policies aimed to eradicate Native American culture
sex - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the culturally agreed upon physical differences between male and female,
especially biological differences related to human reproduction
3 primary factors considered in determining biological sex - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅genitalia, gonads,
chromosomes
Gender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the expectations of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to
people of different sexes
sexual dimorphism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Differences in physical characteristics between males and
females of the same species.
gender identity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅each persons internal experience and understanding of their
own gender
gender expression - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the way in which a person expresses their gender identity,
typically through their appearance, dress, and behavior.
Transgender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identification with a gender that does not match one's biological
gender.
Cisgender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅individuals whose gender identity matches his or her biological sex
cultural construction of gender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the ways humans learn to behave as a man or
woman and to recognize behaviors as masculine or feminine within their cultural context
, gender performance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the way gender identity is expressed through action
Machismo in Mexico - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅macho stereotype includes self centered tough guys also
involved in drugs violence infidelity and gambling, but for the working class community, masculinityis a
shiftung landscape that depends on the circumstance
Intersex - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅possessing biological sexual characteristics of both sexes
Castor Semenya - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅muscular black woman; people believed that she
overproduced testosterone aka Hyperandrogenous
Intersex surgery - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅performed as a series of staged procedures to transform the
normal adult genitalia of one sex to that of the other sex; usually done before the child is old enough to
make a decision
Hijras - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅religious followers of the Hindu Mother Goddess, Bahuchara Mata, who
is often depicted and described as transgender
Two Spirit - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅an additional gender identity in many Native North American
cultures; often thought to have special spiritual powers
gender stratification - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege
between men and women
gender stereotypes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅widely held beliefs about characteristics deemed
appropriate for males and females
gender ideology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a set of cultural ideas, usually stereotypical, about the
essential character of different genders that functions to promote and justify gender stratification
gender violence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅forms of violence shaped by the gender identities of the
people involved
