Imagine that you are an anthropologist hired to liaise between a tungsten mining operation (which provides materials for cell phones) and the local people in the Congo basin. Discuss the ethical considerations of your involvement in this situation. To whom are you most responsible?
What will be an ideal response?
1. First responsibility to the people being studied
2. Development projects and concerns over displacement, illness, and other issues
3. What to do if the employer violates ethical principles
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Campbell and Loy argue that Homo erectus ate substantial amounts of meat based on
A) the design of Acheulean tools B) a large body size C) reduction of the gastointestinal tract D) an increase in brain size E) all of the above
The transfer of goods for other goods between two or more individuals or groups is called:
a. redistribution. b. reciprocity. c. market exchange. d. distribution.
How does difference in schooling style affect the study of cross-cultural cognitive development? Give at least three examples of ways in which the style of schooling (not the subject) affect a child’s temperament, cognitive ability, or psychological development.
What will be an ideal response?
Research on artifacts found in the remains of slave quarters at an eighteenth-century tobacco plantation in Virginia is an example of __________
A. historical archaeology B. forensic anthropology C. applied anthropology D. classical archaeology