Today’s ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to

What does the film “The Shackles of Tradition” show us about Franz Boas’s early life and early scientific career?

As we saw in the film about Franz Boas, “The Shackles of Tradition,” what initially influenced Boas’s idea of cultural relativism?

 For Franz Boas, as shown in “The Shackles of Tradition,” what was the relationship between culture and environment?

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How did the assumptions of humankind’s cultural past held by Karl Marx differ from those of theorists such as Herbert Spencer, E.B. Tylor, and Lewis Henry Morgan?

Which of the following statements about purported attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories based on common ancestry is true?

Considering the material in Chapter 14 of the Kottak book, what do you think is one outcome of outsourcing jobs to countries outside the United States?

In which of the following forms of political organization is it most likely that the most important leaders will acquire their positions based upon personal background or ability, rather than heredity?

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