The anthropologist Fuambai Ahmadu of Sierra Leone views female genital mutilation as __________
a. a form of persecution
b. a symptom of patriarchy
c. an Islamic practice
d. an emotionally positive validation of womanhood
d
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What research methods do most environmental anthropologists use at the local level?
A) archaeological B) genetic C) ethnographic D) historical
All of the following are ways that globalization has affected anthropology except:
a. Anthropologists have become increasingly more politically engaged with indigenous peoples. b. Anthropologists have become more active in social action to defend minority populations. c. Anthropologists today are more focused on studying relationships and exchanges between populations. d. Studies today are more holistic and tend to focus on the particular and specific characteristics of the societies in which the anthropologist is researching. e. Anthropologists frequently collaborate with those they study in order to better represent the culture and its changes.
It was during the Oligocene that proto-monkeys became the most numerous of the primates
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The Dongria Kondh are facing imposition that will affect
a. very little as the Dongria Kondh are very adaptable. b. their entire way of life as strip-mining will destroy their land and impose on their sacred places. c. only their agriculture due to the effects of mining on the water supply. d. their wealth as the Dongria Kondh, like many indigenous tribes, will benefit from the wealth of multi-nationalcorporations.