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As discussed in the text, what Caribbean people have been characterized as living “between two islands” (Grasmuck and Pessar 1991)?

Which is the key assumption in Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism?

Ethnographers typically combine emic and etic research strategies in their fieldwork. This means they are interested in applying both

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

Which of the following statements is true of your professor’s research in the Caribbean?

All of the following are proper roles for applied anthropologists EXCEPT

Just as in other areas of anthropology, the study of language involves investigating what is or isn’t shared across human populations and why these differences or similarities exist. The linguist Noam Chomsky has argued that the human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language, so that all languages have a common structural basis. He calls this set of rules

Which of the following is NOT true of your professor’s applied anthropological research?

In linguistics, what is “abstraction?”

How does acculturation differ from diffusion, or cultural borrowing?