Cultural Anthropology : Quiz 3 - Globalization & Culture
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
Who are people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries.
Migrants
Often, anthropologists use the term "___________" rather than "globalization" to refer to the "global" circulation of goods and people.
Transnational
Development anthropologists often think of themselves as
advocates of poor and marginalized people
World systems theory helped anthropologists
better explain the historical emergence of development patterns throughout the world
Financial globalization has allowed for
corporations to move factories from one country to another
Hybridization is about
cultural mixing
Globalization is so exciting to anthropologists right now because they have never studied interconnectivity before.
false
People in the periphery responded passively to capitalist expansion.
false
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
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
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
James Ferguson, who is an anthropologist of development, argues that development exists
to expand state power
The processes of capital accumulation and the expansion of European colonialism disrupted many societies.
true
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
