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Identify each statement as an accurate statement about Martinique's Carnival celebration. - Controversy over the Kepone chemical contamination scandal was expressed at Carnival. - Carnival is a venue for public conversation about the big debates of the day. - At the 2013 Carnival, chemicals were spilled that resulted in an environmental crisis. - Carnival includes overt displays of sexuality and gender transgression.

- Controversy over the Kepone chemical contamination scandal was expressed at Carnival. - Carnival is a venue for public conversation about the big debates of the day. - Carnival includes overt displays of sexuality and gender transgression.

Identify which scenario is a result of ecological overshoot. (Check all that apply) - Political systems fail to address environmental crises. - Freshwater systems are depleted. - Carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere. - Fisheries collapse in the oceans.

- Freshwater systems are depleted. - Carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere. - Fisheries collapse in the oceans.

Identify the key threats to the future of humanity. (Check all that apply) - climate change - the collapse of nation-states - population growth - poverty

- climate change - the collapse of nation-states - population growth - poverty

Identify each statement as a problem associated with the building of the Panama Canal, or not. (Check all that apply) - residents forced to relocate - disruption of the river-based economy - mining for the mineral phosphate - submersion of entire riverside towns

- residents forced to relocate - disruption of the river-based economy - submersion of entire riverside towns

Based on the ethnography, How Forests Think (2013), identify each statement as a reasonable strategy for multispecies ethnography. (Check all that apply) - see the world through the eyes of an animal - eat, sleep, and spend time as aniterm-7mals do - investigate the ecological relationships between people and plants - communicate with forest plants and trees by imitating the sounds of wind and water

- see the world through the eyes of an animal - investigate the ecological relationships between people and plants

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about food insecurity. Today __________ people suffer from food insecurity—not knowing where they will get an adequate supply of food for the day. Of those facing food insecurity, 75 percent are __________ and 50 percent are __________. Twenty-five percent of the world's undernourished people are __________. Urban and rural populations are closely connected, as many urban dwellers are migrants and children of migrants from rural peasant communities.

1 billion rural dwellers peasant families urban dwellers

Match the anthropologist with the fieldwork they conducted that relates to the environment. 1. Trobriand Gardens 2. indigenous people and land in the Great Basin area of the American West 3. Chinese water management and irrigation farming 4. migrant workers in Florida's Everglades swampland

1. Bronislaw Malinowski 2. Julian Steward 3. Owen Lattimore 4. Zora Neale Hurston

Match each statement as part of the Gimi worldview, or the classic Western worldview. 1. People live as part of their local ecosystem, where they interrelate and influence one another, not outside it 2. Nature is untouched and exotic, so it must be protected from the activities of people

1. Gimi Worldview 2. Classic Western Worldview

Match which statement is describing the Anthropocene, or the Holocene. 1. a climate that remained fairly stable for about 12,000 years 2. Humans must adapt to environmental changes that we have set in motion.

1. Holocene 2. Anthropocene

Identify each statement about glaciers as expressing indigenous Athapaskan and Tlingit views, or modern scientific views. 1. Glaciers are sensitive to smells, can listen, and make moral judgements. 2. Glaciers are natural forces and valuable records of historical climate change.

1. Indigenous Athapaskan and Tlingit Views 2. Modern Science

Match each statement as associated with industrial agriculture and livestock production, or peasants. 1. produces 25 percent of the global greenhouse emissions 2. smaller scale production, use less fossil fuels and water

1. Industrial Agriculture and Livestock Production 2. Peasants

Match the anthropologist with their multispecies ethnography. 1. Do Glaciers Listen? 2. Alien Ocean 3. How Forests Think

1. Julie Cruikshank 2. Stefan Helmreich 3. Eduardo Kohn

College students can engage environmental issues on personal and institutional levels. Match each example as more personal, or more institutional. 1. Kevin rides a bike rather than using a car. 2. Leo challenges his college to invest in solar and wind power.

1. More personal 2. More institutional

True or false Ecotourism always involves the tourists doing environmental conservation work, such as tree planting.

False

True or false Studies suggest that as early as 1940 humans began to use more resources than the planet could regenerate.

False

Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence. Consuming Ocean Island (2014) is an ethnography written by anthropologist __________. It tells the story of the __________ of the South Pacific island Banaba. The people of Banaba were relocated between __________.

Katerina Teaiwa removal of the surface 1900-1980

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about the environment intersecting with other systems of power. Anthrpologist __________ makes the point that "there is no such thing as a natural disaster." Hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthwuakes are all __________. Whether they become disasters, however, is largely determined by __________.

Neil Smith natural events social inequality

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about peasants and their human rights. On December 17, 2018, the United Nations finalized the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and __________ Working in Rural Areas. This declaration raises the visibility of the conditions of rural populations and it provides an internationally accepted __________ that peasant organizations and rural social movements can invoke as they work on some of their most pressing issues: __________, security, and health.

Other People legal framework food

True or False Agard-Jones writes that in order to understand the way the world works, sometimes one must begin by examining the small places and the marginalized people.

True

True or False In Martinique, some people worry that the widespread contamination of environmental toxins is now leading to effeminizing of the male population and an increase in intersex births.

True

True or False Laura Ogden's Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades (2011) relied on data from oral histories conducted with gladesmen.

True

True or false The significant changes that are needed to reestablish the balance between humans and our planet are: 1. Slow population growth 2. Leave fossil fuels in the ground 3. Reassess the culture of consumption 4. Switch from non-renewable to renewable fuels

True

Identify the anthropological category promoted by Donna Haraway as a framework for interpreting the environment. a. kinship b. culture c. politics d. economy

a. kinship

The impact of climate change on vulnerable people will be determined by... a. racial hierarchies b. income stratification c. both

c. both

Fill in the blanks to complete the definition of multispecies ethnography. Multispecies ethnography includes __________ research designed to consider the interactions of all __________ living on the planet and see the world from a __________ perspective.

ethnographic species more than human


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