The notion that biology dictates all aspects of life
What is biological determinism?
100
The increased movement of money, people, goods, and ideas across national borders is known as what process?
What is globalization?
100
These transfers, often financial, flow from migrants back to their home countries.
What are remittances?
100
“Disciplined hanging out” is another way to describe this anthropological method.
What is participant observation?
100
The !Kung start celebrating Christmas for this reason.
What is missionization? (arrival of missionaries from England)
200
The perspective that understands the deep connection between biology and culture.
What is a bio-cultural perspective?
200
What key aspect of globalization involves innovative advancements in communication and travel technologies?
What is time-space compression?
200
People who flee their country of origin because they share a well-founded fear of persecution.
Who are refugees?
200
Judging a culture’s beliefs and behaviors based on the beliefs of your own culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
According to Lee, when a !Kung hunter kills a large animal, he is likely to tell others this.
What is “I am no good for hunting. I saw nothing at all…just a little tiny one.”?
300
The ability of humans to irreversibly alter their behavior or biology in response to environmental changes.
What is plasticity?
300
This key aspect of globalization pertains to the ability of economic entities to accumulate assets financially.
What is flexible accumulation?
300
In “Village Walks,” Guneratne and Bjork note that tour companies have characterized the Tharu as these type of people.
What are primitive forest aboriginals?
300
This method describes when a researcher spends time immersing themselves in the lives of the peoples they are observing or researching to better understand their culture and practices.
What is the ethnographic method?
300
The cross cultural misunderstanding experienced between Lee and the !Kung occurred for this reason.
What is the cultural meaning of the gift of an ox?
400
This percentage of human brain development occurs after birth in a cultural environment.
What is 75%
400
The creation and assertion of highly particular, often place-based, identities and communities.
What is localization?
400
Thok, a Nuer refugee relocated to America, remained close with his cultural ties as well as kinship ties because of these three reasons.
What are 1) befriending other Nuer refugees in America, 2) transnational contact, and 3) remittances
400
The process of enculturation begins at this stage of life.
What is birth?
400
The way the !Kung treated Richard Lee’s gift of a Christmas ox reveals how much they value this trait.
What is equality?
500
In this reading, we learn that genetic, nutritional, developmental, disease are all factors that determine height.
What is "The Tall and the Short of It"?
500
Cultures don't just blindly adopt dominant cultural traits, but rather borrow parts of different culture that complement or contribute to their own.
What is cultural hybridization?
500
According to Guneratne and Bjork in “Village Walks,” Tharu villagers preferred this type of tourists.
What are tourists who arrived in the village by themselves rather than in a tour group.
500
Activities—including ritual, myth, art, dance, and music—that dramatically depict the meanings shared by a specific body of people.
What are symbolic actions?
500
This world-famous desert is the traditional home of the Kung!