Discuss the anthropological study of tourism and describe one example of research in this area

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Tourism has many and complex effects on culture.
2. It can help to preserve cultural traditions and also to distort them for the sake of tourist consumers.
3. The hula in Hawai'i is an example of both effects. Thanks to tourist interest, hula has been preserved. But because of tourist preferences for short performances and certain styles, earlier forms of hula have been distorted for tourist consumption.

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Social problems or issues, especially those that arise as a result of the distribution of power in society, are the focus of __________ perspectives

a. conflict b. materialist c. structuralist d. interpretive

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The earliest traces of material culture are

a. fossil teeth of the species australopithecus. b. words like “ma” to indicate mother. c. simple stone tools, like choppers and scrapers. d. forms of social organization among different primates.

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Acting in a way that has a net loss of energy to the actor and a net benefit in energy to the receiver is known as:

A. altruism. B. foraging. C. crossing over. D. uniformitarianism.

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Adaptation is the outcome of _______________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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