Anthropology ch. 6
Diffusionists
Early twentieth-century Boasian anthropologists who held that cultural characteristics result from either internal historical dynamism or a spread (diffusion) of cultural attributes from other societies.
The more commonly understood definition of development is
a set of institutions ostensibly aimed at fighting poverty and alleviating social problems.
multi-sited ethnography
an ethnographic research strategy of following connections, associations, and putative relationships from place to place
Wanjira was an outspoken poet who had to leave her home country after publishing a dissenting play about the government. She is a(n)
exile
Hybridization theory emphasizes that globalization
generates cultural mixing
By watching TV and consuming spaghetti noodles, people are participating in
globalization.
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
learning important lessons about life in America
Migrants are people who
leave their home to work for a time in other regions or countries.
The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of
localization
World culture
norms and values that extend across national boundaries
Exiles
people who are expelled by the authorities of their home countries
immigrants
people who enter a foreign country with no expectation of ever returning to their home country
Migrants
people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries
Refugees
people who migrate because of political oppression or war, usually with legal permission to stay in a different country
Hybridization
persistent cultural mixing that has no predetermined direction or end-point
Transnational
relationships that extend beyond nation-state boundaries without assuming they cover the whole world
development anthropology
the application of anthropological knowledge and research methods to the practical aspects of shaping and implementing development projects
Globalization is
the contemporary widening of scale of cross-cultural interactions owing to the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas.
Localization
the creation and assertion of highly particular, often place-based, identities and communities
anthropology of development
the field of study within anthropology concerned with understanding the cultural conditions for proper development, or, alternatively, the negative impacts of development projects
Postcolonialism
the field that studies the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism
cultural imperialism
the promotion of one culture over others, through formal policy or less formal means, like the spread of technology and material culture
A key feature of financial globalization is
the reduction or elimination of tariffs to promote trade
World systems theory
the theory that capitalism has expanded on the basis of unequal exchange throughout the world, creating a global market and global division of labor, dividing the world between a dominant "core" and a dependent "periphery"
Globalization
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
Cultural imperialism occurs when influential nations of the West impose their products and beliefs on less powerful nations.
true
