Though pastoral nomadic peoples are often blamed for causing environmental degradation, the fault is often not theirs. Rather, in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa it is caused by:
a. unrestricted development.
b. a tremendous increase in tourism.
c. the ever-burgeoning use of off road vehicles.
d. governments that restrict their movements causing overgrazing.
e. global warming.
d
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Development projects that use traditional social organizations and that respond to locally perceived needs are more likely to be successful.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
An example of an ethnography is a/an:
a. study of chimpanzee language. b. excavation of an archaeological site. c. study of the behavior of residents in a retirement home. d. study of rates of disease in prehistoric populations. e. comparative analysis of blood proteins between populations.
What is culture shock?
What will be an ideal response?
While prehistory was largely ignored in Germany prior to Hitler's rise to power, archaeological research flourished under Hitler's control. Nazi archaeology
a. provided Europe with some of the best archaeological research that had ever been done, using cutting edge methods and sound scientific principles. b. found evidence that Germanic people had emanated from a northern European core area, carrying with them all the major cultural achievements that then spread to the less civilized peoples of Europe. c. was used to support claims for Aryan superiority, in spite of the fact that no such evidence existed. d. found evidence of Aryan kings in locations as far away as Tibet and Iceland, thus proving the cultural and biological superiority of Germanic peoples. e. is practiced today in the Americas.