Literature Flashcards
What is the brexit teacups study
Balthazar 2017
What is the desire for domination in Sarajevo case study?
Jansen 2014
Who wrote the wall street ethnography?
Ho 2009
What kind of models does Gudeman 2001 warn against?
Universalising models such as marxism
What is the paper for development as a gift?
Stirrat and Henkel 2012
What is the BNP manchester case study
Smith 2012
Who looks at the labour benefits of deported US workers?
Rodney 2016. They know the American consumer and so can serve call centres.
What is the title and content of Mosse’s work?
Cultiviating development, ethnography of aid policy and practice in a DFID funded agricultural scheme. He suggests that development is practice driven rather than policy driven.
What is the argument of Agier 2002?
She argues that they are comparable to a city but never able to reach it because of the emergency governance structure. It has its own hierarchies and trade, fuelled by Somali pastoralists and traders.
Which two people argue that development is an intellectual project as well as a material process?
Aprter 1987 and Power 2003
Who argues that there is too much Eurocentric focus on state, rather than other relationships in society?
Balandier 1967
What is the rural Peru case study?
Harvey and Knox 2012
What is the case study for immigrants in a rural scottish town regarding ethnicity?
Grill 2012
Which is the case study for the Lebanese border town?
Obeid 2010
Who argues that development is the final piece in the prorogation of colonialism?
Escobar 1995
Who argues that there is no clear break between colonialism and development
Wainright 2008
What is Gudeman 2001’s main argument
since each are the product of different motivations, you need to distinguish between the community and the market spheres of the economy
What is a key aspect of Abu Lughod’s argument in relation to the state?
These people exist at the border of the Egyptian state where the state is weakest
Whilst Engels said that patrilineal decent was the key to the perpetuation of male hegemony, how does gayle Rubin portray the central idea of the repression of women?
Obligatory heterosexuality is the central means to oppress women.
Give an example of a primordialist
Vanhanen 1999
What is the argument of Scott in 1985
the Gramscian idea of hegemony is flawed because you cannot assume that the dominated consent to being dominated
What is the argument of Gardiner and Lewis 1996 regarding development?
we need to pluralise the knowledge surrounding development to expose the intersection between language and power
What ethnographic example supports James Scott?
Abu Lughod 1990
What is the key concept in Ho 2009
hegemony, and how the narratives and discourses within the finance sector support and reproduce it
Who is the big guy in relation to resistance?
James Scott
What is the argument of deGenova 2002?
That the category of illegal immigrant facilitates the possibility of detention, so legitimises exploitative labour practices. A small number of people incarcerated is enough to create a tangible threat and the reality of an unstable labour force.
Who argues that there has been insufficient work done into resistance?
Ortner 1996
Who says that women have been domesticated so as to become a raw material for production?
Gayle Rubin
What is the argument of Scott in 1990
subordinate groups employ infrapolitics against their aggressors, so resistance is always there where there is domination, but just on the small scale, like to Abu Lughod.
What does Turner and Swartz 1966 say about the location of the political?
It must be seen as more than simply force and coercion
What is the key argument of Alvarez and when?
1995 anthropologists remind us of the micro-scale borders determining our daily practices
What is Herskovit’s argument?
The emphasis of economists on the phenomena of our own culture makes their principles difficult to apply to nonliterate societies
What is the case study for Nuer ethnicity and their conflict with the Dinka?
Hutchinson 2000
Who is the new ethnography of development?
Mosse 2005
What are the two important dates for James Scott?
1985 and 1990
Give an example of an instrumentalist?
Chandra 2004
Who distinguishes ethnic instrumentalism with ethnic primordialism?
Eriksen
Who looks at the immobility of people waiting in Morocco for new information and what do they label them?
Elliot 2016 paused subjects.
What is the core argument of Silitoe 2010
Distribution is unnecessary; the producers of everyday needs are the consumers: produce goes largely “from land to mouth”
What is the Wola Ethnography
Siltioe 2010
Who argues that argues that aid has perpetuated dependency and poor governance in Africa
Moyo 2009
What is the nationalism case study about the queer Israeli dating site?
Kuntsman 2008
Who argues that the manchester school’s emphasis is on process, conflict and a dynamic understanding of political anthropology?
Turner and Swartz 1966 and Balandier 1967
Who has the Banco Palmas case study?
Dacheux and Gouion
What is the case study for the resistance of the Bedouin women ?
Abu Lughod 1990
What assertion of Ho in 2009 is useful for the formalism/substantivism debate?
Neoclassical economics rests on the outdates assumption that it supposes that shareholders are closely tied and interested in the firm’s decisions, rather than simply using it as a vehicle to make money.
What are resources for the Wola?
Not scarce
Despite the fact that resources are not scarce for the Wola, what still happens?
socio-political exchange features ‘valuable’ scarce items
Who considers whether inequality is universal?
Salzman 1999
What is the leadership of the Grand Valley Dani and who was the person who did the ethnography?
Heider 1997, they do not have formal leadership but big man is primus inter pares.
Who wrote is Sex to Gender as race is to ethnicity?
Stolke 1993
Who argues that the state is a reified entity?
Gupta and Ferguson 2006
Who does the anthropology of a refugee camp?
Agier 2002
What is the case study regarding the fake documents of Russian immigrants?
Reeves 2013
What structuralist in 1974 argued that woman is tied to nature but man is identified to culture, so subordination becomes naturalised and internalised
Ortner 1974
What are two ethnogrpahies that can be used from development?
1) Osella and Osella 2010 Kerala masculinity
2) Lindley 2009
