Exam Questions Ch14 Globalization, Culture, And Indigenous

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Chapter 14: Globalization, Culture, and Indigenous Societies

Multiple Choice

1. Though anthropologists disagree about how to define globalization, there is agreement that it involves an increase in ______.

a. interconnectedness

b. warfare

c. isolation

d. cultural sophistication

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss how anthropologists define globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Globalization: A Contested Term

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Which of the following is an effect of globalization?

a. A decline in imperialism.

b. The restricted spread of technological innovations.

c. The Industrial Revolution.

d. McDonald’s locations in Turkey.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss how anthropologists define globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Globalization: A Contested Term

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. How are postindustrial societies different for industrial societies?

a. They are less connected to other parts of the world.

b. They have less emphasis on manufacturing.

c. They have fewer jobs in the information sector.

d. They reward and promote manual labor jobs.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Describe some of the technological and economic trends resulting in globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Globalization: Technological and Economic Trends

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. What was the original purpose of the Internet?

a. The production and circulation of memes to increase American standing.

b. Communicating research about defense projects.

c. Creating a global encyclopedia of human knowledge.

d. Increasing communication among previously warring nations.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Describe some of the technological and economic trends resulting in globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Globalization: Technological and Economic Trends

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. When Americans call technical support numbers, they often expect to reach someone in India, rather than in the United States. Why is this the case?

a. globalization

b. international relations

c. outsourcing

d. manufacturing

Learning Objective: 14.2: Describe some of the technological and economic trends resulting in globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Globalization: Technological and Economic Trends

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The idea that traditional values must be discarded in order for societies to progress comes from ______.

a. modernization theory

b. dependency theory

c. world systems analysis

d. feminist anthropology

Learning Objective: 14.3: Compare the three theoretical approaches to analyzing globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Modernization Theory and the Cold War

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Rostow’s explanations of cultural change are most similar to ______ views.

a. historical particularist

b. enlightenment

c. traditionalist

d. unilineal

Learning Objective: 14.3: Compare the three theoretical approaches to analyzing globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Modernization Theory and the Cold War

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. Why is the concept of “Third World” countries problematic?

a. There is no difference between countries categorized as First and Third World.

b. Countries called Third World have no natural resources

c. Societies categorized as Third World are very different from each another.

d. The socialist countries that make up the Third World have disappeared.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Compare the three theoretical approaches to analyzing globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Criticisms of Modernization Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The ______ theory of globalization recognizes that global inequality is a product of the exploitation of some nations by others.

a. modernization

b. dependency

c. world systems

d. mode of production

Learning Objective: 14.3: Compare the three theoretical approaches to analyzing globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Dependency Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. According to dependency theorists, the United States is a/an ______.

a. metropole

b. satellite

c. First World country

d. core

Learning Objective: 14.3: Compare the three theoretical approaches to analyzing globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Dependency Theory

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Wallerstein’s idea of core countries is most similar to the ______ countries of modernization theorists.

a. satellite

b. exploited

c. First World

d. periphery

Learning Objective: 14.3: Compare the three theoretical approaches to analyzing globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Criticisms of World-System Analysis

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. By studying “globalization from below,” anthropologists examine the ______.

a. ways in which Third World countries develop into First World countries

b. interaction between cores, peripheries, and semiperipheries

c. exploitation of poor countries by wealthy countries

d. daily lives of people in areas affected by globalization

Learning Objective: 14.4: Discuss how anthropologists analyze globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Anthropological Analysis and Globalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. What is the result of “globalization”?

a. Hybridization of Western practices with local ones.

b. The erasure of local traditions in favor of Western practices.

c. Increasing homogeneity across the world.

d. Privileging the hegemonic worldview.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Discuss how anthropologists analyze globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Anthropological Analysis and Globalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. ______ would be most likely to support a policy that allowed for completely free markets.

a. World system analysts

b. Modernization theorists

c. Anthropologists

d. Neoliberals

Learning Objective: 14.4: Discuss how anthropologists analyze globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Anthropological Analysis and Globalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Which of the following is an example of what Benjamin Barber calls “jihad”?

a. resistance to dictatorships

b. the adoption of the Internet in developing countries

c. French protests of McDonald’s

d. neoliberalism

Learning Objective: 14.5: Discuss how anthropologists criticize some of the approaches to understanding politics, culture, and globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Globalization, Politics, and Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. One advantage to an anthropological perspective on globalization is that anthropologists are more likely to ______.

a. interview only the elites in a society

b. talk to people at every level of society

c. have an unbiased perspective

d. grasp the intricate factors at play

Learning Objective: 14.5: Discuss how anthropologists criticize some of the approaches to understanding politics, culture, and globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Globalization, Politics, and Culture

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Modernization theorists would refer to band, tribe, and chiefdom societies as ______.

a. First World

b. Second World

c. Third World

d. Fourth World

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Globalization and Indigenous Peoples

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Globalization processes often resulted in the absorption and ______ of indigenous societies.

a. genocide

b. democratization

c. ethnocide

d. progress

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Globalization and Indigenous Peoples

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. The production of cell phones and laptops rely on ______, which results in environmental degradation and health problems in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

a. coltan mining

b. diamond extraction

c. coal reserves

d. Ik labor

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Mbuti

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Colin Turnbull called the Ik people the ______, due to the famine that resulted from their forced resettlement.

a. pygmies

b. hungry folk

c. loveless people

d. social movers

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Ik

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. The idea of ______ helped Europeans to feel better about the seizure of land from Native Americans.

a. sedentism

b. cultural imperialism

c. imperialism

d. manifest destiny

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Relocation of Native Americans

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. The ______ system was responsible for atrocities such as the Trail of Tears.

a. reservation

b. modernization

c. education

d. cultural materialist

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Relocation of Native Americans

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Colonization by Europeans reduced the indigenous population of North America by ______ by 1890.

a. 42%

b. 95%

c. 400,000

d. 5 million

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Native North American Indians in the Twenty-First Century

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. Missionary activity in the Amazon rain forests has resulted in ______ for groups such as the Yanomamö.

a. increased civilization

b. large scale conversions to Christianity

c. cultural progress

d. increased scarcity of game for hunting

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Native South American Horticulturalists

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. The ______ way of life of many pastoralists makes them less easily controlled by state governmental power.

a. foraging

b. sedentary

c. warlike

d. nomadic

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Pastoralist Tribes

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Prohibitions against ______ in Hawaii led to a decrease in cultural and ethnic identity.

a. speaking the native language

b. trading with Europeans

c. growing sugar cane

d. whaling

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Hawaiian Islands

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Captain Cook was treated as a ______ by the people of Hawaii.

a. savior

b. savage

c. sacrificial victim

d. priest

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Hawaiian Islands

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. One example of a tribe created as a result of interaction with state level societies is the ______.

a. Bedouins

b. Mbuti

c. Qashqa’i

d. Yanomamö

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Qashqa’i

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. ______ were key players in revitalization movements among Native American groups.

a. Peyote guides

b. Prophets

c. Priests

d. Missionaries

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the different forms of resistance to globalization by indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Revitalization Among Native Americans

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. According to Wovoka, the ______ would cause the whites to disappear and bring about the restoration of Native American ways of life.

a. Ghost Dance

b. peyote

c. reservations

d. chiefs

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the different forms of resistance to globalization by indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Ghost Dance

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. The Native American Church combined Christian teachings and ______.

a. western economic systems

b. traditional gods

c. the Ghost Dance

d. the use of peyote

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the different forms of resistance to globalization by indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Peyote Cult

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. ______ cults emerged as Melanesian and Papua New Guinean groups tried to replicate the spiritual processes that brought certain goods to Westerners.

a. Peyote

b. Prophetic vision

c. Cargo

d. Christian

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the different forms of resistance to globalization by indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Melanesia and New Guinea: The Cargo Cults

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. The Hawaiian Renaissance is a response to ______.

a. syncretism

b. pressure from Japan

c. the decline in tourism as European culture becomes predominant

d. native Hawaiians’ marginalization in their own land

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the different forms of resistance to globalization by indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: A Hawaiian Religious Renaissance

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. What is one result of the disappearance of indigenous cultures?

a. technological progress

b. the loss of practical knowledge and wisdom

c. increased morality

d. The loss of harmony between people and their environment

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the different forms of resistance to globalization by indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: A Lost Opportunity?

Difficulty Level: Medium

35. One result of globalization has been ______.

a. social progress

b. increasing human intelligence

c. reduced poverty

d. a widening wealth gap

Learning Objective: 14.8: Discuss how anthropologists contribute to the understanding of globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Pro- and Anti-Globalization: An Anthropological Contribution

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Globalization reduces armed conflict.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Discuss how anthropologists define globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Globalization: A Contested Term

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Imperialism did not exist in preindustrial states.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Compare the three theoretical approaches to analyzing globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Dependency Theory

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Non-Western culture are more fixed and unchanging than Western culture.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Discuss how anthropologists criticize some of the approaches to understanding politics, culture, and globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Globalization, Politics, and Culture

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Globalization continues to impact indigenous people in North America today.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Native North American Indians in the Twenty-First Century

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Peyote is highly addictive.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the different forms of resistance to globalization by indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Peyote Cult

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of evaluating globalization from a modernization theory perspective.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Compare the three theoretical approaches to analyzing globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Criticisms of Modernization Theory

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Does globalization help foraging societies? Examine the arguments for and against globalization as progress for foragers.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Vanishing Foragers

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. The impact of the forced and coerced resettlement of Native American groups in what is now the United States is often taught from the perspective of the colonizer rather than the indigenous people in U.S. schools. What would be included and left out of the way we teach about resettlement if the emphasis were instead on the indigenous perspective?

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Relocation of Native Americans

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. How is the idea of Manifest Destiny ethnocentric?

Learning Objective: 14.6: Discuss the consequences of globalization for indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Relocation of Native Americans

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Discuss the forms of resistance by indigenous societies against globalization.

Learning Objective: 14.7: Describe the different forms of resistance to globalization by indigenous peoples.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Forms of Resistance Among Indigenous Peoples

Difficulty Level: Hard