ANTHROPOLOGY 1200 PEOPLES OF THE WORLD FINAL EXAM Spring 2014 STUDENT NAME: ___Amanda McLaughlin________________ Multiple Choice (2 points each) 1. The Mashpee Wamponoag lost their 1976 lawsuit seeking to reclaim approximately 16‚000 acres that had previously belonged to them on Cape Cod. Which of the following was not true regarding the case? a. They demanded the return of all land‚ including all homes constructed in the past 200 years. b. They never had legal deed to the land. c. The
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four subfields of anthropology. (4 points) The field of anthropology has four subfields including biological (also known as physical)‚ cultural‚ linguistic‚ and archaeology. Biological anthropology studies humans as biological species through human genetics‚ evolution‚ and close human relatives such as primates. Cultural anthropology studies human cultural behaviors and cultural systems through variations in cultural expression among current human populations. Linguistic anthropology describes the
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Race classifications in forensic anthropology. Race classification will always precede controversy. Perhaps nowhere else in the scientific world is such controversy as profound as in the field of forensic anthropology. Forensic anthropology is concerned with the employment of the scientific standards and principles of anthropology in order to investigate crime. It is the unfortunate task of the forensic anthropologist to make use of race as a means of classifying human remains on a near daily basis
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The American Museum of Natural History: Anthropology The American Museum of Natural History has many exhibits that demonstrate many aspects of anthropology. The Museum is located on Central Park West between W81st and W77nd streets. The museum is an excellent place to open oneself to many new ideas and cultures. When looking through the museum the exhibits that are anthropological could enhance ones understanding of a culture. The museum is very big and a lot of time is needed to get the most
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Anthropology (from the Greek word ἄνθρωπος‚ "human" or "person") consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). The discipline is a holistic study‚ concerned with all humans‚ at all times‚ in all humanity’s dimensions. Anthropology is traditionally distinguished from other disciplines by its emphasis on cultural relativity‚ in-depth examination of context‚ and cross-cultural comparisons. Anthropology is methodologically diverse‚ using both qualitative and quantitative methods‚ such as firsthand
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forward to your lively‚ insightful interactions and discussions. Major Learnings Chapters 1-2 o Contemporary globalization is an on-going process of not just economic flows‚ but also cultural flows—the increasing flow of trade‚ finance‚ culture‚ ideas‚ and people brought about by the technology of communication and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism… (7). o Globalization is a reality‚ as well as regionalization and localization. Neoliberal capitalism has a global
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Through chapters 17-19 in Anthropology for Christian Witness Charles Kraft covers a range of topics; Education‚ family‚ and status and role. Through these three chapters we see the importance of looking outside our own culture and our own ‘world’. In the sense that we can not safely assume that everyone else lives the same way do. Education can be something we simply look at as “accumulating of information” but something much more. Chapter 17 in Anthropology for Christian Witness Charles Kraft breaks
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Exam 1 study guide PEOPLE * EB Tylor- the father of modern anthropology‚ supported evolutionism/uni-lineal evolution * Franz Boaz- the father of American anthropology‚ supported empiricism * Margaret Mead- Boaz’s student‚ wrote about the sexual revolution * Borshay Lee- studied the !Kung San from Africa * Zora Neal Hurston- one of Boaz’s students‚ an African-American folklorist * Bronislaw Malinowski- the father of fieldwork‚ said anthropologists need to learn the language
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the Yąnomamö by Napoleon Chagnon. The Wadsworth Cengage Learning group‚ in California in the year 2009‚ published this edition of the book. He published more than five editions and it is commonly used as an introductory text in university level anthropology classes. The Yąnomamö are a group of indigenous tribal Amazonians that live in the border area between Venezuela and Brazil. Chagnon lived and studied with the Yąnomamö from the mid-1960s to the 1990s. I plan to describe the physical environment
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POLITICS‚ POWER AND VIOLENCE Politics and power can be thought of as intimate aspects of all subjects that anthropologists investigate‚ as processes of domination‚ resistance and social transformation are inevitably involved in the creation and representation of cultural practices and relationships. Power and violence are not the same. Power is psychological‚ a moral force that makes people want to obey. Violence enforces obedience through physical coercion. Those who use violence may manage to
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