Exam 24: Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Although locals may create a new religion, on a global scale religious change is more commonly the result of

________ describes the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.

Cases where local communities use modern technology to preserve and revise their traditions

One of the challenges that environmental anthropologists face is that risk perception is rarely related to actions that can reduce threat to the environment.

When people are asked to give up the basis of their livelihood, they usually comply, especially if they are paid money.

How have indigenous movements, political mobilization, and identity politics affected ethnography?

Forces influencing production and consumption are no longer restricted by national boundaries.

Westernization is a form of what kind of cultural change?

Ethnoecology is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptions-that is, its cultural model of the environment and its relation to people and society.

Diaspora refers to the hegemonic policy of dominators to isolate individuals who publicly resist from the rest of the population.

________ refers to the blurring and breakdown of established canons-rules, standards, categories, distinctions, and boundaries.

Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand but also to

Which of the following is NOT one of the possible consequences experienced after the "shock phase" of an encounter between indigenous societies and more powerful outsiders?

To Arjun Appadurai (1990), "________" describes the linkages in the modern world that have both enlarged and erased old boundaries and distinctions.

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that keeps the earth's surface warm. Without greenhouse gases-water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, halocarbons, and ozone-life as we know it wouldn't exist. The current problem is that

Globalization promotes intercultural communication, migration, and commerce, thereby increasing the opportunities for what the text describes as postmodern moments.

In Latin America, the drive by indigenous peoples for self-identification has emphasized their autochthony, with an implicit call for excluding strangers from their communities.

Essentialism describes the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.

________ refers to the changes that result when groups come into continuous firsthand contact.

Mass media can play an important role is constructing and maintaining national and ethnic identities.