Anthro Test 2
The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to
Accumulation prestige
People participate in globalization by
All of the above (consuming coca cola, watching tv, migrating to distant cities for work)
Socioecological pressures are forces that modify primate behaviors and can include all of the following except
Altruism
Which of the following best describes the methodology of multi-sited ethnography?
Comparative
are people who are expelled by the authorities of their home countries
Exiels
The argument that modern H. sapiens appeared as a new species in Africa about 200,000 years ago is called the
Recent African Origin model
Among the Bonobo chimpanzees, social conflict is often resolved through sexual activity. This is a form of
Reconciliation
Development anthropologists often think of themselves as
advocates of poor and marginalized people
Which of the following are areas of social activity that globalization affects?
all of the above
A synonym for hybridization is
all of the above syncretism friction creolization
Social behavior patterns observed in one species that look like behavior patterns in another, but which do not arise from a shared ancestry, are known as
analogous behaviors
World systems theory helped anthropologists
better explain uneven development through time and space, local social relations, & better explain the historical emergence of development patterns throughout the world
Financial globalization has allowed for
corporations to move factories from one country to another
An example of how modern humans differ from primates is
cultural variations in mating patterns
Franz Boas and his students were __________, emphasizing that cultural characteristics result from a spread of cultural attributes from one society to another
diffusionists
One striking difference between the social behavior found in common chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes,and in bonobo chimpanzees, Pan paniscus, is that of
dominance relationships
Anthropologists are generally ignored by "development" experts at institutions like the World Bank.
false
Globalization is exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before
false
People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.
false
When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same.
false
The process through which bone and teeth slowly turn into stone is called
fossilization
Which of the following is not one of the key benefits of full-time bipedalism?
gives humans a choice to climb or walk
According to anthropologists, __________ is the contemporary widening of scale of cross-culturalinteractions owing to the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas
globalization
Tool making was an important part of early human cultural development. The gradual improvements led eventually to forms of
highly refined blade tools made from the chips of the material used
Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?
history
Cultural __________ occurs when influential nations of the West impose their products and beliefs onless powerful nations.
imperialism
The major goal of "development" is
importing health, expanding capitalist markets, alleviating poverty.
Which of the following is not true about hybridization theories?
it explains why conflict is in the world
The research that anthropologist Richard Rouse has done on the effects of migration on the Mexicanvillage of Aguililla is interesting because
it highlights how Aguilillans are part of a transnational community
A world systems theory is important for all of the following reasons except
it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology
The creation and assertion of highly particular, often place-based, identities and communities is knownas __________.
localization
The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Basques in Europe areexamples of
localization
in some species of primates, females and their relatives and young are socially organized around
matrifocal units
Rapid increases in the scale and amount of communication
mean that people in remote places can be in contact with people all over the world
For much of its early history, physical anthropology was associated with what methodology?
measurement and classification of skulls according to racialcharacteristics
People who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries are called
migrants
The rough edge stone chopping tools made by early members of the genus Homo are called
oldowan tools
Molecular and morphological knowledge of living humans and apes supports the idea that humans aremore closely related to chimpanzees and gorillas than we are to
orangutans
One important adaptation found in New World monkeys is the presence of
prehensile tail
A dominance hierarchy exists when members of the same group have
ranking relative to others that establishes access to resources
The presence of a raised area in the middle of the cranium found in H. erectus is known as a
saggital keel
Archaic humans can be distinguished both through morphological differences as well as
specialized tools
One compelling argument that favors the adaptation of bipedalism and the ability to run long distances is that early hominins, unlike many of the animals they sought as prey, had
the ability to sweat
Anthropologists often study primates to broaden understanding of
the evolution of social behavior in humans
A key difference between anthropologists of development and development anthropologists is
the first are analysts of development; the second seek ways to influence it from within
Biocultural evolution is the term used to describe how modern humans arrived on the scene, and itencompasses
the interaction of biology and culture over time
Ethnoprimatology is an emerging field that studies
the interface between human and ape communities
Cultural differences are often caused by
the isolation of communities
Promoters of globalization highlight which of the following?
the more open a country is to foreign trade, the better the economy will be
One of the persistent ideas that has captured the public imagination is that of the "missing link,"something paleoanthropologists recognize as impossible due to
the non-linear evolution processes that have led to our modern form
A key feature of financial globalization is
the reduction or elimination of tariffs to promote trade
The word primate comes from the Latin for "of the first rank" and was the word Linnaeus used in histaxonomic system because
the word Linnaeus used in his taxonomic system because he took for granted the idea that humans were closer to divine powers
A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that
they explain the apparent decline of cultural diversity
james Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists
to expand the power of the state
Often, anthropologists use the term "__________" rather than "globalization" to refer to the "global"circulation of goods and people
transnational
Localization is the flip side of globalization
true
The processes of capital accumulation and the expansion of European colonialism disrupted many societies.
true
The theory that as a result of global capitalist expansion, the world is divided between a dominant"core" and a dependent "periphery" is
world systems theory