Among the reasons anthropology is relevant in today's world is: Group of answer choices as the world becomes increasingly globalized and interconnected, understanding and respect for cultural and physical differences can help avoid conflict and violent confrontation. all of the above. it helps us realize that many differences between people around the world are the result of physical and cultural adaptations to different environments. if we understand why other groups are different from ourselves, there is less reason to condemn and mistreat them.

In writing about her findings in a brazilian shantytown, nancy scheper-hughes’s account of alto do cruzeiro provides a window into the terrible toll of nonconsensual organ harvesting among the poor, as well as how she herself changed over time. how might an anthropologist justify the publication of this ethnographic research when considering the problem of ethnographic authority? a. all of the poor must be given an equal voice, thus polyvocality is justification. b. anthropologists are themselves changed in fieldwork, and so honest reflexivity is justification. c. the horrific conditions made it impossible to ignore, and since she obtained informed consent, this is justification. d. authoritative writing asks us to consider what right we have to report, thus a moral challenge is justification.