Exam 1: Anthropology in a Global Age

Dr. Ken Guest's research compares a community in New York's Chinatown with another community in Fuzhou, China. The two communities are linked by migration. What best describes his research?

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

Bronislaw Malinowski spent two years doing participant observation among the people of the Trobriand Islands in the early 1900s, and there he learned about the islanders' beliefs and customs regarding trade, warfare, marriage, sex, and death. What kind of anthropologist was Malinowski? Explain how participant observation works and what kind of information it provides. Name another topic you could study this way and how you would do it.

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

Marcus is studying developments in Chinese dialects over time, and how those dialects have evolved as migration has increased over the last two centuries. What kind of anthropological lens is Marcus using?

Anthropology looks at the complete diversity of human life across space and time. This kind of study requires a(n)

Which subfield of anthropology traces the history of human evolution in fossils?

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

Material remains help prehistoric archaeologists reconstruct

What type of anthropologists explore any and 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?

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?

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)?

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?

What type of anthropologist studies people from a perspective that considers how humans have adapted to their environments over time?

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?

What would we call an anthropologist working alongside a Native American group to map their spoken language into a written form?

The so-called "N-word" would be most likely studied for its origins, uses, and meaning by a(n):

The Chinese government counts nearly 230 million internal migrants floating in China's cities. What draws most of these internal migrants?

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:

Explain why anthropologists study nonhuman primates like apes and monkeys.