Exam 13: Globalization, Culture, and Indigenous Societies

Globalization refers to the rise of industrial states and the social, economic, political, and cultural consequences this industrialism has had on nonindustrial societies, among other things.

U.S. plantation owners responded to the decline in native Hawaiian populations through infectious diseases by __________.

The Ju/'hoansi San were protected from exploitation and assimilation by the South African government.

The term "Second World" refers to __________.

"Ethnocide" refers to the physical extermination of a particular group of people.

Describe some of the changes that have occurred within Ju/'hoansi San society as a result of global industrialization. Support your answer with specific examples.

As recently as 1934, Native Americans were not considered U.S. citizens but wards of the state.

The introduction of a cash economy has disrupted traditional Ju/'hoansi San patterns of __________.

According to modernization theory, self-sustained growth requires the consistent reinvestment of savings and capital into modern technology.

Eric Wolf emphasized which of the following in terms of how ethnographers should conduct their research in the current era of globalization?

Describe the five stages by which a traditional society undergoes modernization to reach a level of high economic growth.

A principal criticism of world-systems theory is that it tends to overemphasize the importance of __________.

Using one example of each, compare and contrast a First World, a Second World, and a Third World country with one another. What would need to happen in order for your Third World example to become a member of the First World?

In one of the rituals of the Native American Church, participants use __________ as a form of communal sacrament to partake of the Holy Spirit.

Native Americans no longer sing the songs associated with the Ghost Dance because of its failure as a resistance movement.

A country will be classified as underdeveloped because of poor health care and high infant mortality even if the total value of goods and services produced by that country is as high as that of a developed country.

Dependency theory was influenced by Marxism.

The main issue anthropologists have with the work of political scientists studying conflicts in the Middle East is that __________.

Globalization began in the middle of the last century.

The displacement of Native Americans from their tribal lands in the United States in order to make the land available to white settlers was __________.