ANTH 307/ Ecological Anthropology
Final Exam Review Sheet
Spring 2013/Minnesota State University Moorhead
Dr. Roberts
The final exam will be not be cumulative. It will only cover material since the
midterm. Believe me, that's enough! The exam will consist of
objective questions – multiple-choice, true-false, and matching – and some short
answer and a
couple of essays with some leeway for choice just for fun.
Labor Intensive Agriculture and Peasant Farmers.
Industrial Agriculture
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Readings:
Bates Ch 7; Barlett:
Industrial Agriculture in Evolutionary
Perspective.
The Seven Deadly Myths of Industrial Agriculture. Video:
My Father's Garden
(clip only). Fred
Kirschenmann in
Changing the Way We
Eat Video:
The 7 myths
of industrial agriculture
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What is the
demographic transition and what's
the significance for food
production?
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In what ways did the industrial revolution contribute to greater
intensification of food production?
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What were the
Green and
Blue Revolutions? Were they without costs?
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What types of
centralized administrative systems were developed in
China and the former
Soviet Union in the 20th century and why?
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Generally speaking, what happens to people when agriculture
becomes mechanized and agricultural products and labor become
devalued in relation to other commodities?
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Why is the case of
Wasco, California illustrative of the development of
agribusiness in the U.S?
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What kinds of differences did Sonya Salamon find between
German and "Yankee" immigrant farmers in the
Midwest?
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What did Creed's study of
Zamfirovo reveal about
collective agriculture in
Bulgaria?
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What are the 7 myths of industrial agriculture?
Biotechnology and genetically modified foods
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Readings:
Stone --
Biotechnology
and Suicide in India
;
Videos:
Genetic Chile,
I want My Father Back
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What are genetically
modified organisms?
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What are some of the
potential benefits they are thought to have?
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What are some of the
potential risks involved in their development and
dissemination?
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How do GMOs affect people at the level of both producer and
consumer?
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Why are corporations trying to patent crop genetic resources?
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How are some individuals – e.g., indigenous peoples, social
activists and organic farmers—trying to fight this process?
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What can/should anthropologists do about this?
Conservation of Natural/Communal Resources
Culture Change, development, and globalism
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Reading:
Bates Ch 8; Bodley:
Anthropology & Global Environmental Change.
Video:
I want My Father Back
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Over the course of human cultural evolution, what kinds of
things have occurred during
long-term culture change? Please try to
think about
the
reasons for these related trends and
do not simply memorize
and regurgitate them!
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What are the differing assumptions of modernization and
dependency paradigms of development?
By the way, dependency theory and world systems theory go
hand in hand!
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What are structural adjustment programs and why
have I spent so much time talking about them?
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What happened during and after the rapid
entry of women into the
industrial workforce in the cases of
Puerto Rico,
Dominican Republic, and
Cuba?
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What is
cyber culture
and what effect is it having upon
cross-cultural diversity?
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What are the various
ecological consequences of
post industrialism that
Bates discusses?
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What are some of the critical contributions that have been made
by
development anthropologists?
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What does Bates say about those anthropologists who consider it
unethical to interfere directly in peoples' lives by
participating in development projects?
Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Development and (The New) Applied Ecological
Anthropology