Anthropology Quiz 4
World systems theory helped anthropologists...
All of these: Better understand local social relations. Better explain uneven development through time and space. Better explain the historical emergence of developmental patterns throughout the world.
Anthropologists are generally ignored by " development" experts at institutions like the World Bank.
False
Globalization is exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before.
False
Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider _______ in their field studies?
History
Which of the following is not true about hybridization theories?
Hybridization theories do not explain why conflict is growing in the world.
An anthropologist styling localization would be most interested in what topic?
The rise of the Zapatista separatist movement in Mexico.
People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.
True
The processes of capital accumulation and the expansion of European colonialism disrupted many societies.
True
One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that...
global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves.
The research that anthropologist Richard Rouse has done on the effects of migration on the Mexican village of Aguillla is interesting because...
it highlights how Aguilillans are part of a transnational community.
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.
Promoters of globalization highlight which of the following?
the more open a country is to foreign trade, the better the economy will be.
In a study on the Olympics a hybridization theorist would most likely focus on...
the unexpected social patterns that emerge from intermingling between athletes, fans, and officials.
James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists...
to expand state power.