Cultural Anthropology : Quiz 3 - Globalization & Culture

Cultural diversity persists in the world because cultures have been isolated from each other for so long but that diversity is bound to disappear as cultures intermingle more.

False

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

Migrants

Often, anthropologists use the term "___________" rather than "globalization" to refer to the "global" circulation of goods and people.

Transnational

Development anthropologists often think of themselves as

advocates of poor and marginalized people

World systems theory helped anthropologists

better explain the historical emergence of development patterns throughout the world

Financial globalization has allowed for

corporations to move factories from one country to another

Hybridization is about

cultural mixing

Globalization is so exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before.

false

People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.

false

According to anthropologists, ___________ is the contemporary widening of scale of cross-cultural interactions owing to the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas.

globalization

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

history

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

it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology

Rapid increases in the scale and amount of communication

mean that people in remote places can be in contact with people all over the world

A key difference between anthropologists of development and development anthropologists is

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

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

to expand state power

The processes of capital accumulation and the expansion of European colonialism disrupted many societies.

true

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