Economic Dimensions
This post-WWII conference established the IMF, World Bank, and GATT, laying the groundwork for global economic governance.
What is the Bretton Woods Conference?
This anthropological concept refers to the dynamic system of shared meanings, beliefs, and practices transmitted over time.
What is culture?
T or F: Wikan argues that the opposite of honor is humiliation.
False.
She states that dishonor is the opposite of honor. It's also different than shame and humiliation.
This anime series uses hip-hop aesthetics to reframe historical narratives in 1800s Japan.
What is Samurai Champloo?
This anthropologist used the metaphor of a global pool hall to critique static views of culture.
Who is Eric Wolf?
T or F: Steger argued that structural adjustment policies are not related to colonialism.
False. Why?
T or F: Haitian Vodou is a highly centralized religion much like Protestantism and Catholicism.
False.
T or F: Islamic scripture and law accommodates honor killings.
False.
This ethnographic account about honor killings explores tensions between human rights and cultural relativism.
What is In Honor of Fadime?
This concept helps explains how colonial economies were locked into producing specific commodities, often leading to underdevelopment.
What is comparative advantage?
This U.S. law subsidizes American farmers by purchasing surplus crops, contradicting the idea of free markets.
What is Public Law 480?
What is ethnocentrism?
Evaluating another culture by the standards of ones own.
To view ones own culture as superior to other cultures.
This concept refers to the barriers that make it difficult to cross into alternative ethnic identities.
What are boundary mechanisms?
This ethnographic film documents the struggles of female factory workers in Tjiuana.
What is Maquilapolis: City of Factories?
This anthropological method involves immersive fieldwork and thick description.
What is ethnography?
This term describes the policies of privatization, deregulation, and liberalization often imposed on developing countries.
What is neoliberalism?
This term refers to the belief that Western cultural forms dominate and homogenize global culture.
What is cultural imperialism?
This Scandinavian country was criticized for failing to act on honor-based violence due to fears of racism.
What is Sweden?
This author analyzes religious conversion as a strategy for escaping communal obligations.
Who is Karen Richman?
This concept cautions against attributing magical powers to commodities, obscuring labor relations.
What is commodity fetishism?
This global phenomenon involves production processes spread across multiple jurisdictions, often obscuring labor conditions.
What is a commodity chain?
Give an example of cultural relativism and explain why it is appropriate.
The view that cultures must be understood within their own cultural contexts and standards.
This concept refers to the idea that social problems must be analyzed in terms of how they are framed, not just what they are.
What is an anthropological critique?
This concept from Hansen’s reading emphasizes how consumption shapes production, not the other way around.
What is a system of provision?
This concept describes how unequal distributions of resources and power reinforce patterns of inequality.
What is an inequality trap?