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Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 1 1. Many people associate globalization with rapid economic development and the conveniences of digital media; however, these are not all its consequences. Make an argument for the fact that globalization also has […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 10 1. Karl Marx argued that societies in the emerging capitalist economy of nineteenth- century Europe consisted of two distinct classes of people. Identify the classes and the resources or factors that distinguished […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 11 1. Define the term commodity chain. How has globalization affected commodity chains? Describe two global commodity chains discussed in the text. Discuss how each illustrates the complex dynamics of the global economy. […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 12 1. What are the key threats to humanity in the twenty-first century? How can students engage with them? 2. What does the human ecological footprint indicate about the sustainability of the global […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 13 1. U.S. national origin myths commemorate the pilgrims who traveled to Plymouth Rock on the Mayflower in 1620 and the “melting pot” into which nineteenth-century immigrants assimilated. Do these national myths accurately […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 14 1. Compare and contrast the Egyptian state’s personal status courts and the Al Azhar Fatwa Council in Cairo. According to Hussein Ali Agrama, what gives authority and legitimacy to fatwas that are […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 15 1. The forces of globalization are affecting religion and religious practices. Provide three examples that illustrate how globalization is affecting religion and religious practices, and explain how. Conversely, are the religions and […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 16 1. How does Anne Fadiman’s research among Hmong refugees in California illustrate the conflicts that can arise between Western and non-Western approaches to health care and treatment? Describe Lia Lee’s health condition, […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 17 1. What is the difference between classic and contemporary ethnographic film? How does ethnographic film differ from indigenous media? 2. Explain the concept of “photographic gaze.” Briefly list the visual media you […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 2 1. Globalization has led to an unprecedented rate of change worldwide. Barely one hundred years ago, anthropologists traveled to remote places to document other peoples’ lifestyles, which have already dramatically shifted. How […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 3 1. Explain how ethnographers can explore global phenomena by conducting fieldwork at the local level. 2. Compare Nancy Scheper-Hughes’s early ethnographic fieldwork in Alto do Cruzeiro with her current research and work […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 4 1. Preserving endangered languages is an important goal of linguistic anthropologists. Discuss the ambiguous role that information technology and the digital divide may play in language preservation. Using examples from the text, […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 5 1. People sometimes decry that if a black police officer shoots an unarmed black person, then it cannot be due to racial animus. However, others argue that it is still an example […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 6 1. Define diaspora and nation-state. Discuss why there is tension within these two terms and why people living in a diaspora are often viewed with mistrust within a nation-state. 2. Compare how […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 7 1. Since the 1980s, anthropologists have studied how globalization reshapes gender roles in local economies. Some argue that flexible accumulation exploits women, and others that globalization opens up new opportunities for women. […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 8 1. Sex tourism is a multibillion-?3?dollar industry that supplies millions of sex workers for affluent white male European tourists around the world. Does this industry fulfill the promise of “development through globalization” […]

Name: ___________________________ Class: _________________ Date: __________ chapter 9 1. Sara Dorow advocates a comprehensive and global view of the adoption process that incorporates cultural norms and values, political contexts of the sending and receiving countries, economic factors, and a vast […]