Exam 19: Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World 

________ is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptions-that is, its cultural model of the environment and its relation to people and society.

Global warming is primarily due to increased solar radiation, not human activity.

Which of the following is NOT a factor in the emergence and spread of dangerous infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, Ebola, West Nile, SARS, Lyme disease, and Zika?

Which of the following is NOT one of the possible consequences experienced after the "shock phase" of an encounter between indigenous societies and more powerful outsiders?

Social movements worldwide now use indigenous people as a self-identifying label in their quests for social, cultural, and political rights.

Postmodernism refers to the breakdown of traditional categories, standards, and boundaries in favor of a more fluid, context-dependent set of identities.

Ethnoecology is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptions-that is, its cultural model of the environment and its relation to people and society.

As discussed in the text, what Caribbean people have been characterized as living "between two islands" (Grasmuck and Pessar 1991)?

________ describes 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.

Although anthropologists may be interested in contemporary global issues such as climate change, their perspective is necessarily limited to the local scale of their fieldwork.

Which of the following is NOT true of postmodernism?