Question 1

Describe how local communities react to global forces influencing and mingling with local cultures. Support your description with an example from the class.

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Question 2

Anthropologists who explore all aspects of 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 them are known as:

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A)  archaeologists. 
B)  sociolinguists. 
C)  sociologists. 
D)  ethnologists. 
E)  cultural anthropologists.

Question 3

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

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Question 4

The environmental issues that so concern people like the Marshall Islanders are aggravated by companies taking advantage of lax environmental regulations. What aspect of globalism does this demonstrate?

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A)  environment dodging 
B)  flexible accumulation 
C)  increasing immigration 
D)  rapid change 
E)  time-space compression

Question 5

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

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Exam 1: Anthropology in a Global Age

Describe how local communities react to global forces influencing and mingling with local cultures. Support your description with an example from the class.

Anthropologists who explore all aspects of 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 them are known as:

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

The environmental issues that so concern people like the Marshall Islanders are aggravated by companies taking advantage of lax environmental regulations. What aspect of globalism does this demonstrate?

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