Exam 12: The Global Economy

Did you get a tax refund last year? If you did, you have experienced redistribution. What would an anthropologist consider this to be?

Pastoralism frequently includes the process of transhumance. What is this process?

Which group of humans employed adaptive strategies that included hunting, fishing, and gathering plants for food?

Today fewer than 250,000 people make their primary living from food foraging. Where do the remaining food foragers often live?

Immanuel Wallerstein's modern world systems analysis sees nations and regions as divided into different groups in terms of economic dominance. These include core, semiperiphery, and periphery groups. What is one defining characteristic of the periphery group?

After World War II, the United States was strongly influenced by Fordism. There was unprecedented industrial growth, with government stepping in to regulate some aspects of corporate behavior. What was the tax structure imposed on the country at that time and what side effect did it have?

What distinguishes Wallerstein's notions of core, peripheral, and semiperipheral nations? Define each, and explain how they correlate to the concepts of colonial and postcolonial nations. After explaining the role of each in production or exchange networks, explain-using the example of Appalachia from the text-how a peripheral area can exist within a core. Provide a second example of how a core can exist within a periphery. How does the author account for this phenomenon?

In its critique of modernization, modern world systems analysis argues that the source of raw materials today is ________ nations, the same as it was during the height of colonial expansion.