Exam 1: Anthropology in a Global Age

Archaeology, the study of cultures in the human past, focuses on what?

Describe how changes in transportation technology in the nineteenth century led to the development of anthropology.

An anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork on Mormon fundamentalists and their marriage patterns wants to now compare those patterns to those of Muslim tradition. What would this require?

Many large corporations-Walmart, General Motors, and others-routinely operate larger numbers of factories in places like China in order to take advantage of very cheap wages, putting workers in their home country out of a job. What is this an example of?

What field of anthropology studies monkeys and apes, but not human beings?

Explain how globalization has enabled flexible accumulation, and how it works. Provide an example from the class.

Global forces are expanding rapidly and moving into local communities everywhere. According to the author, people in local communities respond to these global forces by:

The scientific discipline that looks at genetics, evolution, the fossil record, and our closest relatives in the animal kingdom in order to gain a greater understanding of what it means to be human is known as:

Both historic archaeologists and prehistoric archaeologists study the past through the analysis of artifacts. What do historic archeologists have access to that prehistoric archaeologists do not?

What is one possible consequence of oil spills and other forms of mass water pollution?

The Latin language of ancient Rome is no longer spoken routinely. What kind of work is needed to examine how Latin changed into the Romance languages of today (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Italian)?

Which concept refers to anthropology's commitment to looking at the full scope of human diversity and experience, including cultural, biological, historical, and linguistic aspects?

The theory of time-space compression suggests that the way we think about time and space has been transformed. What do anthropologists think might be the underlying reason for this?

Participant observation as a research strategy is an essential part of which subfield of anthropology?

Material remains help prehistoric archaeologists reconstruct:

The text notes that increasing migration is one of the key dynamics of globalization. Explain where people are moving and why. What effect is this having on people around the world?

Audrey Richards conducted a detailed ethnography of the coming-of-age rituals of the Bemba, and is often credited with opening the door to the study of health and nutrition among women and children. Which of the four fields of anthropology was Richards working in?

The Chinese government counts nearly 250 million internal migrants floating in China's cities. What draws these internal migrants?

What do we call the belief that one's own culture or way of life is normal and natural and the practices of other people are abnormal and unnatural?

What type of anthropologists explore all aspects of living human culture-from war and violence to love, sexuality, and child rearing-and look at the meanings that people from all over the world place on these things?