Exam 1: Anthropology in a Global Age

The belief that one's own culture or way of life is normal and natural is known as:

Which discipline of anthropology studies human beings in the present and from the past through the excavation and analysis of material artifacts?

Explain how globalization is affecting the Marshall Islanders and why they are concerned about what happens in industrial countries. Do they have a reason to be troubled? What about other countries?

Cultural anthropologists analyze and compare data on different cultures using the method known as:

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:

Bronislaw Malinowski spent two years doing participant observation among the people of the Trobriand Islands, 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.

In order to understand how any group of people lives in our global world today, it is necessary to explore not only the customs, beliefs, and other aspects of their local culture but also:

What field traces the history of human evolution by reconstructing the human fossil record?

The study of fossils and ancient DNA to trace changes in human ancestors over time involves which specialization of anthropology?

The dramatic impact of globalization in the past and even more so today is driven by what kind of changes?

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

What is considered the most distinctive feature of being human?

It is impossible to study a local community today without considering the effect of:

A researcher who studies how the Latin language of ancient Rome changed into the Romance languages of today (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Italian) is practicing what type of anthropology?

Archaeology is the study of cultures in:

The study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people understand each other define what aspect of anthropology?

Anthropology looks at the complete diversity of human life across space and time, and this reflects the field's commitment to:

What field of anthropology studies monkeys, apes, and other nonhuman primates?

In the study of immigration, anthropologists look at physical differences between populations, how the groups involved conceive of themselves and others, what they say about those other groups, and how these groups related to others in the past. This is an example of what aspect of anthropology?

What type of anthropologist studies people from a biological perspective as well as how humans have evolved over time?