Exam 1: Anthropology in a Global Age

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.

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

The study of how people use language in its cultural context is known as:

The field of anthropology that explores genetics and evolution and looks at our closest relatives in the animal kingdom to gain a greater understanding of what it means to be human is known as:

What do historic archaeologists have access to that sets them apart from other archaeologists?

One aspect of globalization is uneven development. Explain what this means and how it affects the world. Provide an example from the class.

Research that compares two communities to examine links between them is referred to as:

South Korea has developed amazingly, with huge corporations making vast amounts of money and giving everyone there a high standard of living, while the vast majority of people in the Central American nation of Guatemala are plagued by extreme poverty, violence, and poor living conditions. This is an example of:

What kind of anthropologists explore ancient rift valleys and deep caves looking for ancient landforms with fossils of human ancestors to understand human evolution?

The worldwide intensification of interactions among human beings across national borders is referred to as:

Who describes spoken languages and preserves them as written languages?

The belief that one's own culture or way of life is normal and natural, and viewing the different practices of other people as strange and unnatural, is called:

Swift economic development and wealth among some groups while others are pushed into extreme poverty are due to:

The dramatic transformations of economics, politics, and culture are characteristic of what dynamic of contemporary globalism?

People who make comprehensive studies of languages and their component parts are:

Changes in communication technology that have allowed military spouses to switch from mailing letters to their partners in Afghanistan to chatting with them on Skype are an example of what dynamic of globalism?

When anthropologists compare the polygyny of Mormon fundamentalists in Utah to Muslim tradition, which allows a man to have as many as four wives, they are doing what kind of analysis?

Who studies how language changes over time?

Explain why anthropologists study nonhuman primates like apes and monkeys.

Ethnographic fieldwork is the primary research strategy of which field?