Ch. 5: Globalization

When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same. (True or False)

False

__________________ are people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries.

Migrants

Development anthropologists often think of themselves as

advocates of poor and marginalized people

Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?

colonial history

Financial globalization has allowed for

corporations to move factories from one country to another

The process of promoting one culture over other, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as

cultural imperialism

One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that

global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves

A world systems theory is important for all of the following reasons except

it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology

The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatist and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of

localization

A key difference between anthropologists of development and developmental anthropologists is

the first are analysts of development; the second seek ways to influence it from within

A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that

they explain the apparent decline of cultural diversity

James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists

to expand state power

Some social networks are so spatially disbursed that migrants participate a community that spans multiple countries referred as a

transnational community

Globalization is the

widening scale of cross-cultural interactions caused by the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images and ideas within nations and across national boundaries

The most important goal of the Congolese Sapeur is to

accumulate prestige

Hybridization is about

cultural mixing

Push-pull factors

describe the factors that "push" people to migrate from their homes and that "pull" them to host countries

Cultural difference are often caused and amplified by

interconnections between societies