Exam 16: Global Challenges local Responses and the Role of Anthropology

In the United States there are _______________ different ethnic groups within its borders (in addition to hundreds of federally recognized American Indians).

The question of choice is central to the story of how medicine and business generate controlling processes in the shaping of women's bodies.

Sudanese and other African women,North American women,and others experience body mutilation as part of cultural efforts to appear beautiful.

Because global corporations cut across national boundaries,they are a force for global unity despite the political differences that divide people.

What percentage of the population of the United States is descended from the original inhabitants?

Anthropologists are trained to develop effective predictions of the future because they _______________.

Prior to the mid-20th century,what types of external migration were most important?

Increasingly,the world's indigenous peoples are passive and non-assertive in the face of modernization not willing to defend their own interests.

When over 200,000 people were injured or killed as a result of gas being released from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal,India,the cause was attributed to a number of factors: the company saving money by not installing safety devices,the political arrangements that enable Union Carbide to build a plant in India,the people living in the vicinity of the plant being too poor to live in safer locations,etc.Thus the people were victims of _______________.

The five wealthiest countries in the world today are ____________________________.

Cosmetic surgery in the United States can be seen as necessary to the patient's psychological health.

Russia,the largest geographical country in the world,consists of 21 autonomous republics.

Global corporations such as CNN seek to _______________.

The major problem associated with cultural pluralism has to do with _______________.

So great is the power of global corporations that they increasingly hamper the wishes of governments.

Anthropologists are _______________,meaning they take into account many interacting factors to understand the functioning of a complex whole.

The world is clearly moving toward a single global culture.

The change from subsistence farming to cash crops _______________.

_______________________________ refers to the cooptive power that forces others into compliance through attraction and persuasion.

Over the past 5,000 years,political units have _______________.