Chapter 5 Student Quiz 1

. Globalization is

the isolation of communities.

when one culture takes over the goods and popular culture of another.

a set of institutions ostensibly aimed at alleviating problems.

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

. Development is

when one culture takes over the goods and popular culture of another.

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

the isolation of communities.

a set of institutions ostensibly aimed at alleviating problems.

. Immigrants are people who

leave their country with no expectation of returning.

are expelled by the authorities of their home country.

leave their home to work for a time in other regions or countries.

migrate because of political oppression or war.

. Refugees are people who

leave their country with no expectation of returning.

are expelled by the authorities of their home country.

leave their home to work for a time in other regions or countries.

migrate because of political oppression or war.

. Strikes, protests, and spirit possession are examples of

globalization.

development.

resistance.

psychosis.

. Localization is

illustrated by ethnic restaurants in big cities.

the integration of goods and capital with a local market.

a phenomenon whereby greater global integration creates opportunity for local cultures to express themselves.

when anthropologists learn the local language and politics while doing research.

. Transnationalism and globalization are

conceptually similar.

conceptually different.

not related.

opposites.

. Wanjira was an outspoken poet who had to leave her home country after publishing a dissenting play about the government. She is a(n)

refugee.

exile.

immigrant.

migrant.

. Paula moved to New York City from Poland twenty years ago when she married her husband. She is a(n)

exile.

refugee.

migrant.

immigrant.

. Anthropologists call the persistent cultural mixing that had no predetermined direction or end-point

transnationalism.

cultural circularity.

hybridization.

diffusionism.

. Pedro was expelled from his home country after running against the incumbent president in a rigged national election. Pedro is a(n)

exile.

migrant.

refugee.

immigrant.

. If an anthropologist wanted to study the way clothing is made and circulated around the world, they would most likely conduct

a multisited ethnography.

a world systems analysis.

a diffusionist ethnography.

an ethno-scientific analysis.

. Anthropologists call the persistent cultural mixing that had no predetermined direction or end-point

transnationalism.

cultural circularity.

hybridization.

diffusionism.

. During apartheid, South African public schools only taught English and Afrikaans and banned the use of indigenous languages. This is an example of

developmentalism.

cultural imperialism.

localization.

postcolonialism.

. A development anthropologist would be most interested in which project?

helping distribute water filtration systems in rural communities

tracking the development of a new local dialect

analyzing the shifts in asylum application processes to account for discrimination against sexual minorities

mapping the global interconnections involved in the abalone trade

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