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Anthropology 1200 Final Exam
ANTHROPOLOGY 1200 PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
FINAL EXAM Spring 2014

STUDENT NAME: ___Amanda McLaughlin________________

Multiple Choice (2 points each)
1. The Mashpee Wamponoag lost their 1976 lawsuit seeking to reclaim approximately 16,000 acres that had previously belonged to them on Cape Cod. Which of the following was not true regarding the case?
a. They demanded the return of all land, including all homes constructed in the past 200 years.
b. They never had legal deed to the land.
c. The jury ruled that the Wampanoag Indians had no right to the land because Congress had approved the sales.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.

2. According to the information presented in class on the sex trade industry in Thailand, which of the following factors helped produce today’s conditions:
a. The development of “R and R” in Thailand for military troops
b. Government and international development agency development efforts focused on tourism
c. Decreased government support for rural family farms.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

3. The estimates are that as of the late 1990s, about 35,000 young women were “enslaved” workers in sex industries in Thailand. Workers in this industry:
a. Are sometimes sold into the work by family members
b. Earn much less in this work than in nearby manufacturing facilities
c. Choose where they work and who their clients will be
d. All of the above
e. None of the above

4. Most genetic evidence clearly supports the fact of three distinct biological races among humans:
a. True
b. False ESSAYS (Make sure to be as specific as possible in answering your questions-provide specific examples from class materials to support your points)

1. In both Tobacco Town Futures and Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance basically focus on starting a new future for the people who live in those communities. In Lyon-Callos book his research focuses on the homelessness and poverty the poor go through in order to find a place to

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