Globalization and Culture
The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to
accumulate prestige
one of the main reason localization interests anthroplogist is that
global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves
In a study on the Olympics a hybridization theorist would likely focus on
the unexpected social patterns that emerge from intermingling between athletes, fans, and officials
Some social networks are so spatially disbursed that migrants participate a community that spans multiple countries, referred to as a
transnational community
People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.
False
When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same.
False
A key marker of development anthropology's success is when local perspectives and voices are paid attention to in development projects.
True
Promoters of globalization highlight which of the following?
the more open a country is to foreign trade, the better the economy will be
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 unexpected social patterns that emerge from intermingling between athletes, fans, and officials
false
A world systems theory is important for all of the following reasons except
it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology
Localization is the creation and assertion of highly particular, place-based identities and communities.
true
The processes of capital accumulation and the expansion of European colonialism disrupted many societies.
true