Why are anthropologists more politically and socially engaged today with the populations they are studying?
What will be an ideal response?
Because of globalization, anthropologists are finding that the populations with whom they are working are facing increasing threats from disease, corporations, governments, and even tourists.
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The primary difference between a village head and a "big man" is that
A. village head is a permanent political office, while big man is a temporary position. B. a big man can enforce his decisions. C. a village head is a band leader, while a big man is a tribal leader. D. a big man has supporters in multiple villages. E. a big man's high status is ascribed, while a village head's high status is achieved.
According to the unilineal evolutionists, the non-Western cultures being documented in the nineteenth century were
a. the products of unique historical events and human interactions. b. as civilized as those of Western Europe. c. examples of an earlier stage of cultural evolution. d. anomalies that were impossible to explain.
When comparing a North American wolf and a whale, the fact that they both have a placenta would be considered a(n):
A. autapomorphic feature B. shared derived feature C. shared ancestral feature D. shared archetypical feature
Bone tools, beads, and decorated ocher fragments were found at Blombos Cave as old as 73,000 years old
Indicate whether the statement is true or false