An Anthropologist Has Just Arrived at a New Field Site

question 65

Multiple Choice

An anthropologist has just arrived at a new field site and feels overwhelmed with a creepy,profound feeling of alienation,of being without some of the most ordinary,trivial (and therefore basic) cues of his culture of origin.What term best describes what he is experiencing?

• A) culture shock
• B) diachrony
• C) synchrony
• D) configurationalism
• E) agency paralysis

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Definitions:

Monetarists

Economists who believe that variations in the money supply are the main source of economic fluctuations.

Recession

A significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, typically visible in GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.

Monetarists

Economists who posit that variability in the money supply critically impacts the short-term national economic output and the price level over longer spans.

Money Supply

This refers to the total amount of money (including cash, coins, and balances in bank accounts) in circulation within an economy at a given time.