Ch. 5: Globalization
When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same. (True or False)
False
__________________ are people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries.
Migrants
Development anthropologists often think of themselves as
advocates of poor and marginalized people
Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?
colonial history
Financial globalization has allowed for
corporations to move factories from one country to another
The process of promoting one culture over other, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as
cultural imperialism
One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that
global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves
A world systems theory is important for all of the following reasons except
it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology
The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatist and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of
localization
A key difference between anthropologists of development and developmental anthropologists is
the first are analysts of development; the second seek ways to influence it from within
A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that
they explain the apparent decline of cultural diversity
James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists
to expand state power
Some social networks are so spatially disbursed that migrants participate a community that spans multiple countries referred as a
transnational community
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 most important goal of the Congolese Sapeur is to
accumulate prestige
Hybridization is about
cultural mixing
Push-pull factors
describe the factors that "push" people to migrate from their homes and that "pull" them to host countries
Cultural difference are often caused and amplified by
interconnections between societies
