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Globalization

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Spread and connectedness of production, distribution, consumption, communication, and technologies, across the world

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The globalization of risk

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Concern about risks often more developed in groups that are less endangered objectively

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Global climate change

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Scientific measurements confirm global warming not due to increased solar radiation

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Anthropogenic

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Caused by humans and their activities

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Climate change

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Global warming, plus changing sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects

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The greenhouse effect

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Warming from trapped atmospheric gases

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Ecological Anthropology

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The study of cultural adaptations to environments

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Ethnoecology

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Societies set of environmental practices and perceptions

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Global assaults on local autonomy

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  • -> A clash of cultures may occur when developments threatens indigenous peoples and their environments
  • -> Spread of environments may expose different notions about the “rights” and values of plants and animals vs humans
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Deforestation

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Forest loss can increase greenhouse gas production and loss of global biodiversity

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Interethnic contact

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Since at least 1920, anthropologists investigated changes that arise from contacts between industrial and nonindustrial societies

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Acculturation

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Changes in cultural patterns of either or both groups

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Westernization

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Accumulative influence of western expansion on indigenous peoples and their cultures

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Cultural Imperialism

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Spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others

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Indigenized

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Modified to fit the local culture

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Diaspora

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The offspring of an area who have spread to many lands

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Postmodernity

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Describes our time and situation, with today’s world in flux

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Postmodern

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Period of a blurring and breakdown of established canons, categories, distinctions, and boundaries

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Postmodernism

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Style and movement in architecture that succeeded modernism beginning in the 1970s

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Essentialism

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Process of viewing identity as established, real, and frozen