Globalization
The rapid innovation of communication and transportation technologies associated with globalization that transforms the way people think about space (distances) and time.
What is time space compression?
A key anthropological research strategy involving both participation in and observation of the daily life of the people being studied.
What is participant observation?
The practice by which a nation-state extends political, economic, and military power beyond its own borders over an extended period of time to secure access to raw materials, cheap labor, and markets in other countries or regions.
What is colonialism?
A system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, shared, and contested by a group of people.
What is culture?
The flexible strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative communication and transportation technologies.
What is flexible accumulation?
This statement is at the core of the American Anthropological Association’s statement on ethics.
What is do no harm?
A flawed system of classification, with no biological basis, that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population into supposedly discrete groups.
What is race?
Anything that represents something else
What is a symbol?
The accelerated movement of people within and between countries.
What is increasing migration?
he process of fieldwork alters the character of these people?
What are the ethnographer and the study community?
The way genes are expressed in an organism's physical form as a result of genotype interaction with environmental factors.
What is phenotype?
The unequal distribution of the benefits of globalization.
What is uneven development?
An anthropologist who was investigating why the thumbs-up and the "okay" hand signals used in North America are considered rude gestures in certain other parts of the world would be engaging in a comparative study of this.
What is kinesics?
Changes to Earth’s climate, including global warming produced primarily by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases created by the burning of fossil fuels.
What is climate change?
This term explains that Anthropologists are ethically bound to let those we study know why we are studying them, and to obtain their permission to do so.
What is informed consent?
Cultural classifications of what kinds of people and things exist, and the assignment of meaning to those classifications
What are mental maps of reality?