Quiz 5

Migrants

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

A believer in cultural imperialism would explain that people who watch American television in remote places like a Walpiri camp in the Australian outback are

being subjected to alien cultural influences

the methodology of multi-sited ethnography

comparative

People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.

false

One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that

global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves.

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

history

The major goal of 'development' is

improving healthexpanding capitalist marketsalleviating poverty all of the above

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 synonym for hybridization is

syncretism, friction, creolization

A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that they explain

the apparent decline of cultural diversity

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 from different countries

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

to expand state power

A key marker of development anthropology's success is when local perspectives and voices are paid attention to in development projects.

true

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

true

Development anthropologists often think of themselves as

advocates of poor and marginalized people

A multi-sited ethnographer studying Mexican migrants in the United States would be most likely to conduct fieldwork

in a government hearing on immigration policy by traveling with migrants as they cross borders in the Southwest by interviewing border officials

Which of the following is not true about hybridization theories?

it explains why conflict is growing in the world.