Chapter 15 - Anthropology and Globalization

Question 1

Globalization

Answer 1

Spread and connectedness of production, distribution, consumption, communication, and technologies across the world

Question 2

Globalization as Ideology

Answer 2

Efforts by the International Monetary Bank (IMB), the World Bank (WB), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and others to create a global free

Question 3

Anthropogenic

Answer 3

caused by humans and their activities

Question 4

Ecological Anthropology

Answer 4

A study of cultural adaptations to environments

Question 5

Ethnoecology

Answer 5

Society’s set of environmental practices and perceptions

Question 6

Deforestation

Answer 6

Often demographically driven
(Commercial logging, road building, cash cropping, and clearing and burning associated with livestock)

Question 7

Acculturation

Answer 7

Changes in cultural patterns of either or both groups through contact

Question 8

Westernization

Answer 8

Accumulative influence of Western expansion of indigenous peoples and their cultures

Question 9

Cultural Imperialism

Answer 9

Spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others or its imposition on other cultures, which it modifies, replaces, or destroys

Question 10

Postmodernity

Answer 10

Described our time and situation, with today’s world in fluctuation

Question 11

Postmodern

Answer 11

A period of a blurring and breakdown of established canons, categories, distinctions, and boundaries

Question 12

Essentialism

Answer 12

The process of viewing identity as established, real, and frozen (hides the historical processes and politics within) to perpetuate and hierarchies and to justify violence against categories seen as less than fully human

Question 13

Diaspora

Answer 13

Offspring of an area who have spread to many lands

Question 14

Greenhouse Effect

Answer 14

Natural phenomena that keeps the Earth’s surface warm