Ch. 6 Questions

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

A historical study of indigenous resistance to colonialism

The most important goal of the Congolese sapeur is to

Accumulate prestige

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 (where):

All of the Above

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

World systems theory helped anthropologists

Better explain historical emergence of development patterns throughout the world

Financial globalization has allowed for

Corporations to move factories from one country to another

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

Diffusionists

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

Exhiles

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

People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.

False

The authors think that cultural diversity persists in the world because cultures have been isolated from each other for so long but that diversity is bound to disappear as cultures intermingle more.

False

When people consume the same clothes, food, and goods they eventually think and behave the same.

False

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

Finances Communication Migration All of the Above

One of the main reasons localization interests anthropologists is that

Global Integration creates opportunities for local cultures to express themselves

According to anthropologists, ___________is the contemporary widening of scale of cross-cultural interactions owing to the rapid movement of money, people, goods, images, and ideas.

Globalization

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

History

Cultural differences are often caused by

Isolation of communities

The recent rise of autonomy movements among Hawaiian separatists and Zapatistas in Mexico are examples of

Localization

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

Migrants

A synonym for hybridization is

Syncretism Friction Creolization All of the Above

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

The importance of listening to the priorities of the neighbors

A key feature of financial globalization is

The reduction /elimination of tariffs to promote free trade

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

To expand state power

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

Transnational

Globalization and localization are complementary dynamics.

True

Localization is the flip side of globalization.

True

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

True

Promoters of globalization highlight which of the following?

Winners, the more open the economy, the better for the country

The linked elements that contribute to the manufacture of an object like a T-shirt is called a _________.

commodity chain

Cultural ________________often exist not in spite of but because of global interconnections.

diversity

Which of the following is not true about hybridization theories?

it explains why conflict is growing in the world

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

it lends itself readily to ethnographic methodology

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

People around the world often think of development as undermining self-determination but will often accept it when it is _________________.

on their own terms

The major goal of "development" is

Importing health Expand capitalist market Alleviate poverty All of the Above

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

Unexpected social patterns that emerge from intermingling between athletes, fans, and officials from different countries

A key difference between anthropologists of development and development anthropologists is

A.o.D. are analysts of development; D.A. seek ways to influence it from within

The theory that explains why cultural differences have not disappeared because cultural consciousness is increasingly bringing people together around cultural similarities is

Clash of Civilizations Theory

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

Comparative

People participate in globalization by

Consuming Coca Cola Watching Youtube Migrating to distant cities to work All of the Above

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

Globalization

The research that anthropologist Karen Tranberg Hansen has done on secondhand clothing in Zambia is interesting because

Highlights how people impose local meanings on objects

Cultural _____________occurs when influential nations of the West impose their products and beliefs on less powerful nations.

Imperialism

A commodity chain analysis applied to motorcars would be interested in all of the following except

The layout of the factory in which they are built

A central feature of cultural convergence theories is that

They explain apparent decline of cultural diversity

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

True

Anthropologists use _______________to juxtapose phenomena that were once thought worlds apart.

multi-sited ethnography