Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to
A. find solutions, acknowledging that ecosystems management involves multiple levels.
B. prescribe top-down solutions to ecological problems.
C. contribute to development projects that sometimes, out of necessity, replace indigenous institutions with culturally alien concepts.
D. work closely with state agencies, among whom they do most of their ethnography, to promote institutional change.
E. promote the concepts of environmental rights, even at the expense of cultural rights.
Answer: A
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A. the most general aspects of cultural patterns B. features unique to a given culture, not shared with any others C. cultural features exhibited by individuals rather than groups D. different levels of culture E. features of a culture that are isolated from other features in the same culture
Researchers have concentrated on __________ as the most likely nonhuman primate to successfully train to use language
a. gorillas b. orangutans c. chimpanzees d. gibbons
The process by which children learn culture is
A. acculturation. B. cultural transmission. C. enculturation. D. ethnoabsorption. E. diffusion.
The word for a disease-producing agent is:
A. pathogen. B. bacteria. C. illness. D. virus.