According to the Transnational Migration and Identity lecture, Haitian, Dominican, and African immigrants do not embrace the “black” or “ African American” identity that is imposed on them by American society
a. true
b. false
a. true
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The saying, "I against my brother; my brother and I against my cousins; I, my brother, and my cousins against the outsider," best describes the organization of
A) band society. B) a segmentary lineage. C) a kindred. D) a matriclan. E) complex industrial society.
Economic anthropologists have been concerned with two main questions, one focusing on systems of human behavior and the other on the individuals who participate in those systems. The first question is: How are production, distribution, and consumption organized in different societies? The second question is:
A. Why has the myth of the profit-maximizing individual been so pervasive, despite evidence to the contrary? B. What are the best ways to convince individuals in funding agencies of the value of ethnographic knowledge in the realm of economics? C. What encourages overconsumption in Western economies? D. What motivates people in different cultures to produce, distribute or exchange, and consume? E. What has been the impact of globalization at the level of individuals?
The HbS allele increased in frequency in West African populations due to
a. sickle-cell anemia. b. genetic drift. c. migration. d. increased mutation rates. e. natural selection.
Who was studied at a distance during the 1940s in an attempt to predict the behavior of the political enemies of the United States?
A. the Koreans and English B. the Yanomami and Betsileo C. the Malagasy D. the Germans and Japanese E. the Brazilians and Indonesians