Question 1

What was the Industrial Revolution? How did the lives of ordinary working people change as a result of this revolution?

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Question 2

How did Marx and Weber's views on stratification differ?

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Question 3

What is the difference between colonialism and imperialism? What effects do they have on cultural and ethnic diversity?

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What are some lasting effects of colonialism in the world today? How have ethnic, political, and religious identities been altered by colonialism?

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Question 5

According to the text, what can we appropriately conclude from geneticists' finding that someone of African ancestry may have more in common biologically with someone of native Australian, Asian, or northern European descent than with a fellow African?

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This conclusion highlights the genetic diversity within the African continent and suggests that the concept of race based on physical appearance does not accurately reflect the complexity of human genetic variation.

Question 6

The value of garbology to archaeologists is that it provides evidence of what people think they did or should have done.

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Garbology provides evidence of what people actually did, as it studies the waste products they left behind, not what they thought they did or should have done.

Question 7

What themes and interests unify the subdisciplines of American anthropology? In your answer, refer to historical reasons for the unity of anthropology in the United States.

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Question 8

Define both ethnography and ethnology. Discuss the importance of both and their relationship in anthropology.

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Discuss anthropology's dual identity as a member of both the social sciences and the humanities. What advantages may be found in this dual identity? Use the anthropological approach to the study of "race" to substantiate your answer.

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Question 10

What are the four primary types of human adaptation? Why has their interrelationship been particularly important for the human species?

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Question 11

What kinds of work would applied anthropologists pursue? Provide one example for each subfield. What aspects of anthropology make it uniquely valuable in application to social problems?

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Quiz 1: Culture