ANTH 201g Midterm: Midterm Study Guide
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Key: very important concepts (page 1, important concepts (page 4, key terms (page 8, important concepts (page 14) Very important concepts: chapter 1: anthropological perspectives on contemporary human problems. The human system of adaptation that we live in today is an industrially based global commercial economy. The world wildlife fund for nature (wwfn) estimated that since 1995, human consumption of food, fiber, and energy has exceeded the annual biological productive capacity of the world. A major cause of global warming is the excessive burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, Tribal people designed their cultural world around small-scale social groups. Culture is the learned and shared symbolic information and way of life and thought that people use to improve their own and their children"s survival. The dominant cultural value of the global economy is increasing consumption of commercial goods and services, instead of human well-being like in tribal societies.
