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Questions: Using all three of the required readings: Kottak, Shoumatoff, and Pearce, as well as the information provided in the required films: 1) Climate Change (Bolivia), 2) The Kayapo Warrior, 3) The Kayapo Fund. You need to cite at least two of the films in your answer.

Briefly, what is globalization and what are some of its negative aspects including the political implications it generates? What is global climate change and what are some of the effects of climate change on regional weather patterns? How is climate change impacting the indigenous farmers of Bolivia (view film on Climate Change: Bolivia)? What are some of the obstacles to slowing down climate change and how is America (including Americans in general) an obstacle to this progress? In detail, what is causing rapid deforestation in indigenous communities worldwide? You are required to consider the problems encountered by the Kayapo of Brazil AND the Penan of Borneo. How and why are environmental anthropologists fighting against deforestation and encouraging the empowerment of indigenous peoples living in many of the world's tropical forests? Among other aspects, consider how indigenous people are better at preventing deforestation than outsiders including their governments. Briefly, how has the globalization of the media, especially the internet, played a positive role in helping indigenous peoples preserve their ethnic identity as tied to preserving their indigenous rights to their land and overall cultural survival?