A sense of loyalty to the nation-state based on shared language, values, and culture is called __________
A. ethnicity
B. nationalism
C. statehood
D. popular sovereignty
Answer: B
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Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to
A. prescribe top-down solutions to ecological problems. B. contribute to development projects that sometimes, out of necessity, replace indigenous institutions with culturally alien concepts. C. find solutions, acknowledging that ecosystems management involves multiple levels. D. promote the concepts of environmental rights, even at the expense of cultural rights. E. work closely with state agencies, among whom they do most of their ethnography, to promote institutional change.
The status systems of chiefdoms and states are similar in that both are based on differential access to resources. Nevertheless, a key distinction is that
A. the status system of chiefdoms can sometimes function in a completely egalitarian manner when the populations are small enough. B. in chiefdoms, women are always excluded from the competition for status, whereas in states, this gender difference does not exist. C. stratum endogamy exists in chiefdoms but not in state status systems. D. status is much more important to leaders in chiefdoms than in states. E. differential access in chiefdoms is still very much tied to kinship.
Open-ended conversations in ethnographic research are also called _______________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Charles Lyell's 1865 book The Geologic Evidences for the Antiquity of Man was important because it:
a. Documented the fact that humans had lived with now-extinct animals in the distant past. b. Provided evidence that humans had been on the earth for a far shorter time than other scholars of the time suggested. c. Argued for an extremely young age of the earth (not more than 6000 years old). d. Finally showed that the "ancient ax heads" discovered in river gravels were nothing more than naturally fractured river cobbles. e. Showed that the remote antiquity of humankind would not be accepted by the scientific community