Exam 19: Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World 

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Identities are

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Worldwide, concern about environmental and technological risks is more developed in groups that are less endangered by those risks.

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All of the following are examples of key forces in modern global culture EXCEPT

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In Latin America, the drive by indigenous peoples for self-identification has emphasized their autochthony, with an implicit call for excluding strangers from their communities.

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Identities are not fixed; they are fluid and multiple. People seize on particular, sometimes competing, self-labels and identities, depending on context.

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The spread of environmentalism may expose radically different notions about the rights and values of plants and animals versus humans. Fortunately, it is clear to everyone that certain animal rights trump other rights.

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Although acculturation can be applied to any case of cultural contact and change, the term most often has described Westernization, the positive influence of Western expansion that has spread democratic and capitalistic values to those less fortunate.

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________ refers to the blurring and breakdown of established canons-rules, standards, categories, distinctions, and boundaries.

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To Arjun Appadurai (1990), "________" describes the linkages in the modern world that have both enlarged and erased old boundaries and distinctions.

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Mass media can play an important role in constructing and maintaining national and ethnic identities.

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When people are asked to give up the basis of their livelihood, they usually comply, especially if they are paid money.

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Scientists prefer the term climate change to global warming. Climate change points out that, beyond rising temperatures, there have been changes in sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects.

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Cultural forces are indigenized when native traditions are presented to and appreciated by the former colonialists, who then acknowledge these forces as indigenous or native.

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The last 30 years have seen a dramatic shift in the conditions of indigenous peoples in Latin America, where the push by indigenous peoples for self-identification has emphasized all of the following EXCEPT

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Anthropology has always been concerned with how environmental forces influence humans, and how human activities affect the biosphere and the Earth itself. The 1950s through the 1970s witnessed the emergence of an area of study known as cultural ecology or ecological anthropology. This field

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Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to

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Essentialism refers to the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.

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________ refers to the changes that result when groups come into continuous firsthand contact.

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The term indigenous people gained legitimacy within international law with the creation in 1982 of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

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Westernization is a form of what kind of cultural change?

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