Unit 4 Study Guide

Which of the following was a result of the growing demand for sugar in Europe?

Capitalism expanded to the rest of the world.

What are gradual genetic shifts that are found among human populations?

Clines

The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time is

Colonialism

According to Coburn (2011), a development initiative in Afghanistan that involved an NGO donating an electric kiln failed because it ignored?

Local culture by donating the kiln to a women's center, where men- who did the work of pot-making and firing-could not enter.

The deliberate physical extinction of a group is known as

Genocide

What is NOT a proper role for an applied anthropologist?

Helping to impose development programs designed solely by international authorities.

People are living multi locally when?

Migrants maintain ties with their native lands through phoning, e-mailing, visiting, sending money, and watching ethnic TV.

An abundance of Hominoid fossils date to this time period?

Miocene

__________disease theories might attribute a person's illness to the consumption of hot or cold substances under the wrong conditions.

Naturalistic

Which of the following statements about neoliberalism is FALSE?

Neoliberalism espouses a belief in communally owned property, and people should work for the common good.

Which of these statements about the world system is NOT true?

The world system depends on each nation producing all that is needed by its own population.

Participants' groups are most effective when they are based on_____or______among members.

Traditional social organization, socioeconomic similarity

What refers to the tendency to view less-developed countries as more alike than they are.

Under-differentiation

Agriculturalists

use their land intensively and continuously

Which of these statements is NOT true?

"Applied Anthropology is a recently developed sub field within anthropology and reflects an entirely new concern with the application of anthropology to social problems."

Which of these statements about Catal Huyuk is NOT true?

"Catal Huyuk was first planned and built by the Jomon."

Data from the 2013 US Census Report reveal that the richest 1% of Americans own more wealth than the bottom____% combined.

90

According to the American Anthropological Association, what is one of the two key factors causing anthropogenic climate change?

An ever-expanding culture of consumerism

According to Marx, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are

Distinct and opposed classes in the capitalist economy.

What focuses on how cultural beliefs and practices helped human populations adapt to their environments?

Ecological anthropology

What describe the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, thus ignoring the historical processes within which that identity was forged?

Essentialism

One fact about australopithecines is that they

Include both gracile and robust species

What refers to the contemporary world in flux, with people on the move, in which established canons, categories, distinctions, and boundaries are breaking down?

Postmodernity

A disease is defined as a(n)

Scientifically identified health threat.

Which of these statements about semi-periphery nations is NOT true?

Semi-periphery nations' economic activities are less mechanized than those in the periphery.