Which of the following is a cultural generality?
A. Life in groups
B. The use of fire
C. Incest taboo
D. Use of symbols
E. Nuclear family
E. Nuclear family
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What do we call the practice in the United States of assigning race to the parent believed to pertain to a minority group (known also as the "one drop rule")?
a. ethnic derivation rule b. clinal distribution c. mitochondrial typing d. hypodescent rule
All of the following are ways that globalization has affected anthropology except:
a. Anthropologists have become increasingly more politically engaged with indigenous peoples. b. Anthropologists have become more active in social action to defend minority populations. c. Anthropologists today are more focused on studying relationships and exchanges between populations. d. Studies today are more holistic and tend to focus on the particular and specific characteristics of the societies in which the anthropologist is researching. e. Anthropologists frequently collaborate with those they study in order to better represent the culture and its changes.
Discuss the issue of anthropologists' involvement in local issues as it is raised in the example of Stuart Kirsch's work in Papua New Guinea. What were two of the ways Kirsch supported activism in the local community?
What will be an ideal response?
What do you think is the relation between theory and methods in anthropology, if they relate at all?
What will be an ideal response?