Anthropology 102 - Human Ways of Life » Spring 2021 » Topic 14 Humans and the Environment

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Question #1
Applied anthropologists often work with conservation and development organizations to implement projects that depend on an accurate understanding of local cultures and practices to succeed.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #2
Environmental Anthropology focuses on
A.   The relationship between humans and their environments. The study of the natural world, particularly its geological components. Living organisms and their vital processes.
B.   Living organisms and their vital processes.
C.   The study of the natural world, particularly its geological components.
D.   The relationship between humans and their environments.
Question #3
Anthropologists often become involved in environmental causes around the world.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #4
Even the most remote areas, like the Amazon jungle, are anthropogenic (shaped by humans).
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #5
According to the article, "In Deforestation's Wake, Wild Animals Turn Troublesome", the Marind view pets as objects of pity, "orphans of the forest" that have lost their wildness
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #6
According to the article, "In Deforestation's Wake, Wild Animals Turn Troublesome", rather than seeing pets as little "humans", or like us, the Marind view themselves in the pets, with pets being the embodiment of the troubles the humans are also experiencing.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #7
Multispecies ethnographies
A.   Are concerned with issues of social justice as it pertains to the environment.
B.   Challenge the centrality of humans in the world by kooking at non-humans as important environment actors. Look at the ways that humans cultivate the natural world to produce economic resources. Are concerned with issues of social justice as it pertains to the environment.
C.   Look at the ways that humans cultivate the natural world to produce economic resources.
D.   Challenge the centrality of humans in the world by kooking at non-humans as important environment actors.
Question #8
Anthropologists interested in eco-justice may also focus on the way that environment destruction can lead to ethniocide among indigenous communities around the world.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #9
"Anthropocene" means
A.   Geological time period in which humans have impacted the environment.
B.   The common name for the subfield of Environmental Anthropology. Geological time period in which humans have impacted the environment. Geological time period in which dinosaurs dominated the world.
C.   The common name for the subfield of Environmental Anthropology.
D.   Geological time period in which dinosaurs dominated the world.
Question #10
According the article "How COVID-19 is Changing People's Relationship with Houseplants", many cultures consider non-human entities, like plants, to have a form of "personhood".
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE

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