Ch. 15 - Anthropology's Role in a Globalizing World

Question 1

Warming caused by trapped atmospheric gases

Answer 1

Greenhouse effect

Question 2

Caused by humans and their activities

Answer 2

Anthropogenic

Question 3

Global warming, plus changing sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects

Answer 3

Climate change

Question 4

Study of cultural adaptations to environments

Answer 4

Ecological anthropology

Question 5

Culture’s set of environmental perceptions and practices

Answer 5

Ethnoecology

Question 6

Acculturative influence of Western expansion on local cultures worldwide

Answer 6

Westernization

Question 7

Spread or advance of one (dominant) culture at the expense of others

Answer 7

Cultural imperialism

Question 8

The offspring of an area who have spread to many lands

Answer 8

Diaspora

Question 9

Process by which borrowed forms are modified to fit the local culture

Answer 9

Indigenization

Question 10

Time of questioning of established canons, identities, and standards

Answer 10

Postmodernity

Question 11

Marked by the breakdown of established canons, categories, distinctions, and boundaries

Answer 11

Postmodern

Question 12

Movement after modernism in architecture; now describes comparable developments in music, literature, and visual art

Answer 12

Post-modernism

Question 13

Deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder

Answer 13

Genocide

Question 14

Viewing identities that have developed historically as innate and unchanging

Answer 14

Essentialism