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According to Melanie Medeiros, what happened to marriage patterns in Brogodo, Brazil, as the tourism industry created more economic opportunities for women?

Militarized thinking assumes that people are fundamentally

How has globalization affected sexuality around the world?

In a matrilineal descent group, continued membership in the same family group is passed down through which member?

A Chinese medical student plans to spend her career solving health problems among children living in slums in Medellín, Colombia. Which of the following is a piece of advice that anthropologist Paul Farmer would most likely give to this medical student?

Although many are close with the families into which they are born, others are marginalized or stigmatized in ways that create deep, lasting alienation between them and their birth families. What do many people alienated from their birth families seek to create?

The French sociologist Émile Durkheim developed the notion of a fundamental dichotomy between which of the following sets of ideas that has been used by anthropologists in examining religion?

Benedict Anderson studies how people who most likely will never meet and have little in common socially, politically, or economically

How do anthropologists refer to the way in which cultural institutions and systems of power interconnect to affect individual lives and group experiences?

According to the excerpt from the article Polluted Promises (Checker 2005), what is the strongest variable for predicting where hazardous waste facilities are located?