anthropology chapter 4 UPDATED

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Learning important lessons about life in America.

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

They explain the apparent decline of cultural diversity.

A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that

Anthropologists of development are analysts of development -Development anthropologists seek ways to influence it from within

A key difference between anthropologists of development and development anthropologists is

The reduction or elimination of tariffs to promote trade.

A key feature of financial globalization is

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

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

friction syncretism creolization

A synonym for hybridization is

Lending itself readily to ethnographic methodology.

A world systems theory is important for all of the following reasons except

globalization

According to anthropologists, __________ is the contemporary widening of scale of cross-culturalinteractions owing to the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas

imperialism

Cultural __________ occurs when influential nations of the West impose their products and beliefs onless powerful nation

Difference

Cultural __________ often exist not in spite of but because of global interconnections

isolation of communities

Cultural differences are often caused by

advocates of poor and marginalized people

Development anthropologists often think of themselves as

Diffusionists

Early twentieth-century Boasian anthropologists who held that culturalcharacteristics result from either internal historical dynamism or a spread (diffusion) ofcultural attributes from other societies

history

Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies

corporations to move factories from one country to another

Financial globalization has allowed for

diffusionists

Franz Boas and his students were __________, emphasizing that cultural characteristics result from aspread of cultural attributes from one society to another

Overarching importance of listening to the priorities of the neighbors.

If a development anthropologist were to get involved in a project in your city that is revitalizing a poorneighborhood, they would probably emphasize

The unexpected social patterns that emerge from intermingling between athletes, fans, and officials from different countries.

In a study on the Olympics a hybridization theorist would likely focus on

expand state power

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

Winners and losers

Many arguments over global integration are about __________, but anthropologists are just asinterested in cultural nuances such as inequality, confrontation, domination, and resistance

World culture

Norms and values that extend across national boundaries

transitional

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

On their own terms

People around the world often think of development as undermining self-determination but will oftenaccept it when it is _______

consuming coca cola watching tv migrating to distant cities for work (all of the above)

People participate in globalization by

Exiles

People who are expelled by the authorities of their home countrie

Immigrants

People who leave their countries with no expectation of ever returning

Migrants

People who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries

migrants

People who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries are called

Refugees

People who migrate because of political oppression or war, usually with legalpermission to stay in a different country

Hybridization

Persistent cultural mixing that has no predetermined direction or endpoint.

The more open a country is to foreign trade, the better the economy will be by standard measures.

Promoters of globalization highlight which of the following?

mean that people in remote places can be in contact with people all over the world

Rapid increases in the scale and amount of communication

Transnational

Relationships that extend beyond nation-state boundaries without assuming they cover the whole world

Development anthropology

The application of anthropological knowledge and researchmethods to the practical aspects of shaping and implementing development projects

Localization

The creation and assertion of highly particular, often place-based identitiesand communities

localization

The creation and assertion of highly particular, often place-based, identities and communities is known as __________

Anthropology of development

The field of study within anthropology concerned withunderstanding the cultural conditions for proper development or, alternatively, thenegative impacts of development projects

Postcolonialism

The field that studies the cultural legacies of colonialism andimperialism

improving health expanding capitalism markets alleviating poverty (all of the above)

The major goal of "development" is

Accumulate prestige and a higher social status

The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to

Localization

The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Basques in Europe areexamples of

It highlights how people impose local meanings on objects.

The research that anthropologist Richard Rouse has done on the effects of migration on the Mexicanvillage of Aguililla is interesting because

Push-pull factors

The social, economic, and political factors that "push" people to migratefrom their homes and that "pull" them to host countries.

clash if civilizations theory

The theory that as a result of global capitalist expansion, the world is divided between a dominant"core" and a dependent "periphery" is

World systems theory

The theory that capitalism has expanded on the basis of unequalexchange throughout the world, creating a global market and a 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 rapidmovement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas within nations and across nationalboundaries

all of the above

Which of the following are areas of social activity that globalization affects?

Comparative

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

It explains why conflict is growing in the world.

Which of the following is not true about hybridization theories?

-Better explain the historical emergence of development patterns throughout the world -Better explain uneven development through time and space -Better understand local social relations

World systems theory helped anthropologists

A historical study of indigenous resistance to colonialism.

World systems theory would be most suited to which of the following research projects?

exiles

_________ are people who are expelled by the authorities of their home countries.

True

t/f A key marker of development anthropology's success is when local perspectives and voices are paid attention to in development projects

false

t/f Anthropologists are generally ignored by "development" experts at institutions like the World Bank

True

t/f Globalization and localization are complementary dynamics.

False

t/f Globalization is exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before

true

t/f Localization is the flip side of globalization.

false

t/f People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion

False

t/f The authors think that cultural diversity persists in the world because cultures have been isolated fromeach other for so long but that diversity is bound to disappear as cultures intermingle more

true

t/f The processes of capital accumulation and the expansion of European colonialism disrupted manysocieties.

false

t/f When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same


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