Anthropology Chapter 5: Globalization

Development anthropologists often think of themselves as...

A: Advocated of poor and marginalized people

Rapid increases in the scale and amount of communication...

A: Mean that people in remote places can be in contact with people all over the world

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

B: Transitional community

A key difference between anthropologists of development and development anthropologists is...

A: The first are analysts of development; the second seek ways to influence development programs from within

World systems theory helped anthropologists...

B: Better explain the historical emergence of development patterns throughout the world

Hybridization is about...

B: Cultural mixing

Globalization is the...

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

___ are people who are expelled by authorities of their own home countries.

C: Exiles

Which of the following best describes the methodology of multi-sited ethnograpy?

D: Comparative

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

D: Migrants

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

D: To expand state power

A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that...

A: They explain the apparent decline of cultural diversity

Financial globalization has allowed for...

A: corporations to move factories from one country to another

If a developmental anthropologist were to get involved in a project in your city that is revitalizing a poor neighborhood, she or he would probably have to emphasize the...

B: Overarching importance of listening to the priorities of the neighbors

Cultural differences are often caused and amplified by...

C: Interconnections between societies

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

C: Transnational

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

B: Cultural imperialism