ANTH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Exogamy, Endogamy, Ethnology
6 Jan 2018
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Chapter 1: physical anthropologists: study human physical forms, past and present. Focus more on how cultures change over time. Studies both people and the structures of power. Belief that all humans are connected: global temperatures are predicted to increase 2. 5 to 10 degrees fahrenheit by the year. > easier for individuals to pursue lives further away from family and friends: flexible accumulation: allows companies to be globally exible in how they accumulate pro ts. > global corporate expansion and outsourcing: time-space compression: theory that considers the role of new communication and transportation technologies in speeding up our senses of time and place. > rapid communication and global travel: globalization: the worldwide intensi cation of interactions and the increased movement of money, people, goods and ideas within and across national borders, sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics, historic linguistics: Eldwork: ethnographic authority: early in the ethnography the anthropologist discusses the preparation and methods involved in his eldwork.
