Cultural Anthro CH 5&6 NNU final 2k19
Long-term damage to soil quality is typical of
Intensification
Food security refers to
access to sufficient nutritious food to be healthy and active
Development anthropologists often think of themselves as
advocates of poor and marginalized people
Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?
colonial history
Financial globalization has allowed for
corporations to move factories from one country to another
the process of promoting one culture over others, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as
cultural imperialism
Foodways are subject to large-scale industrial processes, trade relationships, and trends, suggesting that they are
dynamic
Anthropologist Sidney Mintz observes that most people around the world usually
eat a common patterned diet of core-legume-fringe foods
There are more undernourished people than obese and overweight people in the world.
false
when people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same.
false
he structured beliefs and behaviors surrounding the production, distribution, and consumption of food is referred to by anthropologists as
foodways
Which mode of subsistence includes the search for edible things?
foraging
One of anthropology's insights about the foraging mode of subsistence is that
foraging people have a cultural view of their environments as giving
One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that
global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves
A cultural relativist would be most likely to emphasize that pastoralists
have developed effective social institutions and knowledge that ensure long-term sustainability of the landscape
Anthropologists are interested in the nutrition transition because
it explains widespread changes in bodily form, eating patterns, and everyday life in urban settings
A world systems theory is important for all of the following reasons except
it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology
Why was meat eating important for human biological development?
it provides high-quality protein for human brain development
The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of __________________.
localization
Eating practices are
marked by identities such as gender, age, and ethnic group
What pivotal evolutionary shift happened around 1.8 to 2 million years ago that is closely related to human foodways?
meat consumption increased
___are people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries
migrants
the human diet is
omnivorous
The ability to digest milk into adulthood is called lactase___
persistence
A major social impact of industrial agriculture is
social stratification
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
A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that
they explain the rise of cultural conflict in the world
James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists
to expand state power
Some social networks are so spatially disbursed that migrants participate in a community that spans multiple countries, referred to as a
transnational community
Foragers tend work less to survive than agriculturalists or pastoralists.
true
Globalization is the
widening scale of cross cultural interactions caused by the rapid movement of...
Hybridization is about
cultural mixing
Push-pull factors
describe the factors that "push" people to migrate from their homes and that "pull" them to host countries
the most important goal of the congolese sapeur is to
accumulate prestige
A process that increases yields and includes prepping soil, technology, a large labor force, water management, and plant and soil modification is
intensification
Cultural differences are often caused and amplified by
interconnections between societies