Exam 1: Anthropology in a Global Age

Studying how men and women use language differently and how this regularly leads to miscommunication between them would demand a close examination of the cultural context of language. This would be the work of what type of anthropologist?

The distinct era in which human activity is reshaping the planet in permanent ways is referred to as what?

Ancient rift valleys and deep caves often contain human fossils that can provide clues about human evolution and the lives of our ancestors. What do we call an anthropologist who examines just the human evolutionary aspect of fossils?

Anthropology has long studied the marginalized and remote segments of human society. Recently, a lot of research has begun to look at the upper segments of society, which can help us understand how the other marginalized groups come into being and exist at all. What is this process called?

Cultural anthropologists employ the process of ethnology to:

In late nineteenth-century debates on American immigration, many scholars and government officials privileged immigrants from northern Europe over those from southern Europe, such as Italians and Greeks, because the officials felt these southern people were a separate and inferior biological race with primitive ways. This is an example of:

What key dynamic of globalization is characterized by the movement of people, not only between countries but also within the individual countries themselves?

What does an anthropologist call the type of research that compares multiple communities in order to examine links between them?

Which discipline of anthropology studies human beings through the excavation and analysis of human material artifacts?

Globalization is also affecting the world's environment. Identify three effects of human activity on the environment, and then choose one and discuss its consequences.

Human beings have long been migrant, moving themselves, their material goods, and even ideas from one part of the world to another. What makes this process, which is now called globalization, seem so different today than in the past?

Global poverty has risen dramatically over the past twenty years, and is generally considered a sign of what by anthropologists?

Anthropology developed during an intense period of globalization in the nineteenth century. What was one of the major characteristics of that period of globalization that drove this development?

The sequencing of mitochondrial DNA to trace changes in human ancestors over time involves which specialization of anthropology?

In the "Social Life of Things," we follow the path of a shoe. In this example, a corporation in the United States makes a large profit. At the same time, almost half of the people in Senegal live in poverty and many children suffer poor living conditions. What is this an example of?

Compare and contrast how historic and prehistoric archaeologists investigate past human life and explain what insights can be gained.

In order to gain a complete understanding of any aspect of human behavior, the field of anthropology adopts what strategy?

Policy makers and environmental experts struggle to agree on what should be done with nuclear waste, the life span of which will extend beyond human existence itself. What concept is best used to explain this phenomenon?

Time-space compression is one of the key dynamics of globalization. Explain just exactly what time-space compression is and how it works, and give an example.

When companies move their production facilities around the world to take advantage of cheaper labor and lower taxes, what is this called by anthropologists?