Why are anthropologists concerned with preserving indigenous peoples?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: Because anthropologists believe that the disappearance of any people group is a basic human rights issue and needs to be addressed. The preservation of culture is a major tenant of anthropology as many indigenous groups have been pushed off their lands or removed in the name of progress.
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How was the blade-core method, which characterizes the tools of Upper Paleolithic traditions, superior to Mousterian technology?
A. The Upper Paleolithic blade-core method was faster and produced 15 times as much cutting edge from the same amount of material. B. The Upper Paleolithic blade-core method was faster but also more difficult to achieve, resulting in many tries that yielded no results. C. There was no difference between the two methods—only a greater diversity of tool uses among Upper Paleolithic traditions. D. The Upper Paleolithic blade-core method produced sharper and longer cores than was typical of the Mousterian method. E. The Upper Paleolithic blade-core method used naturally occurring metal ores to strike blades off cores.
Structural violence can best be described as:
a. a systematic extermination of a group of people based solely on their race, gender, and religious affiliation b. physical and psychological harm caused by an exploitative, impersonal, and unjust social, political, and economic system c. a political system that classifies individuals in order to deny them access to resources and authority d. a doctrine of superiority that leads to the dehumanization of a group of people based on their cultural practices and physical race
The perspective of the insider, trained or not, is not always considered more accurate and legitimate than the observations of an outsider anthropologist
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
___________ anthropologists help us to understand relationships between extinct and living species by comparing DNA sequences
a. DNA b. Osteological c. Molecular d. Cultural e. Historical