Chat with AIExam 5: Globalization and Culture: Understanding Global Interconnections
Is the diffusionist perspective of Boas and his students useful in anthropology today?
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VerifiedFranz Boas and his students Alfred Kroeber and Ralph Linton developed a theory of culture that emphasized the interconnectedness of societies. The Boasians thought of themselves as diffusionists, emphasizing that cultural characteristics result from either internal historical dynamism or a spread (diffusion) of cultural attributes from one society to another. Later, be-ginning in the 1950s, Marxist anthropologists like Eric Wolf argued against the isolation of societies, suggesting that non-Western societies could not be understood without reference to their place within a global capitalist system, which reaches across international boundaries with abandon. And yet, until the 1980s, such themes of interconnectedness rarely interested most cultural anthropologists.
How do the findings and theories of anthropologists of globalization affect your understanding of culture?
(32) VerifiedWe aim to deepen your understanding of culture as a dynamic process by showing its importance for understanding contemporary global processes. For anthropologists, globalization is not simply a matter of cultural homogenization. It is a process that illustrates how people create and change their cultures because of their connections with others. Not everybody participates equally in these diverse kinds of global connections, which means we also have to consider power relationships and social inequality.
Is hybridization occurring in American life? If not, why? If so, give an example and use the discussion of hybridization from the book to make your case.
(39) VerifiedHybridization is persistent cultural mixing that has no predetermined direction or end-point.
For what kinds of research projects is multi-sited ethnography useful and not useful? In your answer give at least one example for each.
(44) Which of the following best describes the methodology of multi-sited ethnography?
(38) Cultural diversity persists in the world because cultures have been isolated from each other for so long but that diversity is bound to disappear as cultures intermingle more.
(26) How and why do people participate in global processes and local communities simultaneously? Give some examples to illustrate your point.
(32) Eric Wolf encouraged anthropologists to consider what in their field studies?
(41) Do you think an ethnographer could employ a multi-sited approach in a project studying Walmart's cultural influence inside and outside the United States. If not, why not? If yes, what field sites would you study?
(36) The processes of capital accumulation and the expansion of European colonialism disrupted many societies.
(47) A key marker of development anthropology's success is when local perspectives and voices are paid attention to in development projects.
(37) Multi-sited fieldwork has been productive for studying transnational phenomena like environmentalism and other social movements, the media, certain religious societies whose membership extends across the borders of many countries, and the spread of science and technology.
(25) Describe how you would apply the theory of McDonaldization to explain how airlines work in the United States.
(33) Some social networks are so spatially disbursed that migrants participate a community that spans multiple countries, referred to as a
(37) The process of promoting one culture over others, through formal policy or less formal means, is referred to as
(37) Localization is the creation and assertion of highly particular, place-based identities and communities.
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