Question 1

Development projects usually fail when they try to replace indigenous institutions with culturally alien concepts.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

Cultural meaning is

Accepted Answer

A)   imposed by a text.
B)   locally created.
C)   inherent in a text.
D)   produced by a text, not from it.
E)   determined only by the author. B

Question 3

As a vehicle of change, religious proselytizing is a culturally neutral factor.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

How have recent movements regarding the politics of identity with regard to indigenous peoples varied around the world?

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Question 5

Illustrating how forces from world centers can and are creatively modified to fit the local culture, how did the Native Australians interpret the movie Rambo?

Accepted Answer

A)   They saw Rambo as an imperialist agent.
B)   They saw Rambo as a Communist spy.
C)   They assigned Rambo to the kangaroo clan.
D)   They created tribal ties and kin links between Rambo and the prisoners he was rescuing.
E)   They "creatively opposed" the film as a form of resistance to the world system.

Question 6

Modern technology plays an important role in both facilitating cultural imperialism and resisting it.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which is the single greatest obstacle to slowing climate change?

Accepted Answer

A)   the growing population of the poorer nations in the world
B)   proper climatic changes
C)   having scientists decide on a definition of climate change
D)   meeting energy needs, particularly in energy-hungry countries such as the United States, China, and India
E)   a lack of data portraying the effects of climate change

Question 8

Because our planet's climate is always changing, the key question becomes, how much of global warming is caused by human activities versus natural climate variability? On this issue, most scientists agree that the causes are mainly

Accepted Answer

A)   evolutionary.
B)   ecological.
C)   anthropogenic.
D)   moral.
E)   indigenized.

Question 9

This chapter describes Americans' belief that U.S. television programs inevitably triumph over local products around the world as

Accepted Answer

A)   ethnocentric.
B)   culturally relative.
C)   indigenized.
D)   imagined.
E)   politically correct.

Question 10

In 1989, a military government seized power in the Sudan. This resulted in which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Sudan now has no more tribal religions, because everyone has converted to either Christianity or Islam.
B)   The Sudan is now the largest country in Papua New Guinea.
C)   The Sudanese government adopted a policy of cultural imperialism.
D)   The Sudan has little ethnic or religious diversity.
E)   The Sudanese government has institutionalized cargo cults.

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT true of postmodernism?

Accepted Answer

A)   It originally described a style and movement in architecture.
B)   It rejects rules, geometric order, and austerity.
C)   It has a clear and functional design or structure.
D)   It draws on a diversity of styles from different times and places.
E)   It extends value well beyond classic, elite, Western cultural forms.

Question 12

How can the perspective of an ethnographer, who carries out research at the local level of communities, contribute to large-scale environmental concerns such as climate change and deforestation?

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Question 13

Unlike "indigenous peoples," what term, which highlights the prominence that the exclusion of strangers has assumed in day-to-day politics worldwide, has been claimed by majority groups in Europe?

Accepted Answer

A)   indigenous people
B)   autochthon
C)   mestizo
D)   euroindio
E)   freedom fighter

Question 14

Cultural forces are indigenized when native traditions are presented to and appreciated by the former colonialists, who acknowledge these forces as indigenous or native.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

TV programming that is culturally alien tends to outperform native programming when the alien programming comes from the United States, Great Britain, and France.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

What is a text, and how does its reading relate to the role of the individual in popular culture?

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Question 17

The last 30 years have seen a dramatic shift in the conditions of indigenous peoples in Latin America, where the drive by indigenous peoples for self-identification has emphasized all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)   political reforms involving a restructuring of the state.
B)   their cultural distinctiveness.
C)   their autochthony, with an implicit call for excluding strangers from their communities.
D)   territorial rights and access to natural resources, including control over economic development.
E)   reforms of military and police powers over indigenous peoples.

Question 18

What are some of the arguments for and against the interpretation of the mass media as forms of cultural imperialism?

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Question 19

Radiative forcings work to warm and cool the earth. If these didn't exist, there would be no global warming.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Identities are

Accepted Answer

A)   fixed by both genotype and phenotype.
B)   never dependent on context.
C)   not fixed; they are fluid and multiple.
D)   fictions.
E)   creative constructs and therefore of little real consequence.

Exam 24: Anthropologys Role in a Globalizing World

Development projects usually fail when they try to replace indigenous institutions with culturally alien concepts.

Cultural meaning is

As a vehicle of change, religious proselytizing is a culturally neutral factor.

How have recent movements regarding the politics of identity with regard to indigenous peoples varied around the world?

Illustrating how forces from world centers can and are creatively modified to fit the local culture, how did the Native Australians interpret the movie Rambo?

Modern technology plays an important role in both facilitating cultural imperialism and resisting it.

Which is the single greatest obstacle to slowing climate change?

Because our planet's climate is always changing, the key question becomes, how much of global warming is caused by human activities versus natural climate variability? On this issue, most scientists agree that the causes are mainly

This chapter describes Americans' belief that U.S. television programs inevitably triumph over local products around the world as

In 1989, a military government seized power in the Sudan. This resulted in which of the following?

Which of the following is NOT true of postmodernism?

How can the perspective of an ethnographer, who carries out research at the local level of communities, contribute to large-scale environmental concerns such as climate change and deforestation?

Unlike "indigenous peoples," what term, which highlights the prominence that the exclusion of strangers has assumed in day-to-day politics worldwide, has been claimed by majority groups in Europe?

Cultural forces are indigenized when native traditions are presented to and appreciated by the former colonialists, who acknowledge these forces as indigenous or native.

TV programming that is culturally alien tends to outperform native programming when the alien programming comes from the United States, Great Britain, and France.

What is a text, and how does its reading relate to the role of the individual in popular culture?

The last 30 years have seen a dramatic shift in the conditions of indigenous peoples in Latin America, where the drive by indigenous peoples for self-identification has emphasized all of the following EXCEPT

What are some of the arguments for and against the interpretation of the mass media as forms of cultural imperialism?

Radiative forcings work to warm and cool the earth. If these didn't exist, there would be no global warming.

Identities are