chapter 14 anthro – Flashcards

How does the modern world system affect ethnographers?

What term refers to wealth or resources invested in business with the intent of producing a profit?

Periphery nations

Which is not true of core nations?

Which of the following did not result from Christopher Columbus' voyages?

According to Karl Marx, classes are

Who viewed the nation-state as an instrument of oppression and religion as a method of diverting and controlling the masses?

Which of the following statements about Karl Marx is not true?

Which of the following is not true about the modern world system?

What is the name of the political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time?

Which of the following statements about British colonialism is not true?

What was the intervention philosophy of the British empire?

In anthropology, history, and literature, the field of postcolonial studies has gained prominence since the 1970s. Postcolonial refers to

All of the following are true about neoliberalism except that it:

Neoliberalism is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). To Smith, economic liberalism encouraged "free" enterprise and competition, with the goal of generating profits. Kottak notes, however, that this meaning of "liberal"

The labels "First World," "Second World," and "Third World" represent a common, although ethnocentric, way of categorizing nations. The "First World" refers to the "democratic West," which is traditionally conceived in opposition to a "Second World" ruled by

According to Kottak, the World Bank's approach to corruption

What is the term for the physical destruction of ethnic groups (by murder, warfare, and introduced diseases)?

According to Wallerstein, the nations in the world system can be classified into three types: core, periphery, and frontier.

Trade and other economic relations between core and periphery disproportionately benefit capitalists in the core.

One consequence of the ongoing globalization of work and migration is that skilled Western workers must now compete against well-educated workers in such low-wage countries as India, where an experienced software programmer earns one-fifth the average salary of a comparable American worker.

Sugar and cotton helped fuel the development of a capitalist world economy

The Industrial Revolution did not begin in France because the French domestic manufacturing system could produce without innovating.

Marx argued that socioeconomic stratification was based on the sharp and simple division between the successful Protestant industrialists and the poor Catholic peasantry.

According to Marx, the bourgeoisie is made up of the people who must sell their labor to survive.

Weber argued that without Catholic ethic and values, capitalism and industrialism would have never spread beyond England.

Weber argued that the only true capitalists were Protestants and that people who believed in any other faith could never fully mature as capitalists.

The United States originally started out as a peripheral nation, but by 1900 it had asserted itself as a member of the industrialized core.

Mass production has led to critical consumption as people are forced to make careful decisions regarding what is needed and what is excess.

Colonialism refers to the solicitation by peripheral countries for political and financial assistance from core nations.

The British notion of "white man's burden" is similar to the French concept of "mission civilisatrice" in that both were racist ideologies that were used to justify the colonial efforts of their respective country.

French colonial strategies incorporated both direct and indirect rule.

Many of the political, linguistic, religious, and economic distinctions between the countries of West Africa today are artifacts of colonialism.

Belgian colonial administrators were careful to use culturally significant differences to distinguish between the Hutus and Tutsis.

Neoliberalism refers to a revival of Adam Smith's classic economic liberalism, which suggests that governments should not regulate private enterprise and that free market forces should rule.

The distinction between small-c communism and large-C Communism is another example of useless and arbitrary concepts defined in social science.

With the spread of industrialization, the existence of indigenous economies, ecologies, and populations has become threatened all over the world.

Ethnocide refers to the intentional destruction of an ethnic group's traditional customs, beliefs, and behaviors.

When indigenous peoples are incorporated into modern nation-states, they usually become part of the impoverished classes.