Reading comp PrepTest 143 · Section 2 · Question 6

Incorrect. (Lines 45-46) Turner's work focuses only on the Kayapo, and there are no statements made through Turner's viewpoint talking about other indigenous peoples or indigenous peoples generally.

Incorrect. (Line 46) The Kayapo have access to video technology, so how much more widely spread the technology is is out of scope of Turner's argument. It's also out of scope of Weiner's—he cares only about the effects on indiginous cultures where the technology has spread, not how far it's spread.

Incorrect. (Lines 23-25) Weiner does believe there's value to preserving these traditional practices—he just believes that video actually subverts that goal. And Turner doesn't speak to Weiner's view on this, anyway.

Correct. Question Type:
Must Be True

Strategy Overview:
Review Terence Turner's viewpoint, Weiner's viewpoint, and then infer what the former would think of the latter

Answer Anticipation/Relevant Lines:
The structure of this passage is nice—a new viewpoint is introduced and, more or less, contained in each paragraph.

Terence Turner showed up in Paragraph 4—he's the field anthropologist who worked with the Kayapo. His work "lends credence to Ginsburg's position" (Line 47), which stands in opposition to Weiner's. And, specifically, Turner has found that the Kayapo videos, on all levels, mirror their principles and ceremonies. In short, they've managed to use the Western camera but end up with a product that reflects themselves.

Weiner (Paragraph 2) believes that this isn't possible. The Author says he believes cameras "inevitably purvey a Western ontology" (Line 21), and so a non-Western culture using one would lose their own viewpoint and necessarily adopt a Western one.

That's at odds with Turner's observations of the Kayapo maintaining their own principles and culture while using the camera, so the correct answer should reflect that.

Answer Explanation:
(Lines 56-60; Lines 20-21) Weiner believes that video "inevitably" causes indigenous peoples to adopt a Western ontology, costing them their cultural identity. Turner, on the other hand, has worked with an indiginous culture that was able to capture their culture in video that reflected their own values, not Western ones. As such, Turner would believe that Weiner underestimates the ability of indiginous peoples to adapt video technology to their own cultural values, since Weiner believes it can't be done and Turner has seen the Kayapo do just that.

Key Takeaway:
Fun question! We needed to understand two non-Author viewpoints to answer it. However, we know that the various viewpoints are important, so we should have started this question with a general view of what Turner's and Weiner's viewpoints were, and where to find the details of them in the passage.

Incorrect. There are no other specific technologies discussed in the passage, and certainly not in the paragraph describing Turner's views.