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