Deck 12: How Do Anthropologists Study Political Relations

Question 1

The study of social power in human society is called

A) political anthropology.
B) social anthropology.
C) cultural anthropology.
D) sociocultural anthropology.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The freedom of self-contained individuals to pursue their own interests above everything else and to challenge one another for dominance is known as

A) free agency.
B) waivers.
C) independence.
D) hegemony.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Where national identity and political territory coincide:

A) hegemony.
B) governmentality.
C) ideology.
D) nation-state.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A sense of identification with and loyalty to the nation-state is called

A) heritage.
B) nationality.
C) ideology.
D) ethnicity.

Question 5

Forms of power preoccupied with bodies, both the bodies of citizens and the social body of the state itself is called

A) biopower.
B) governmentality.
C) culture.
D) ideology.

Question 6

The term ________ is commonly used to refer to migrant populations with a shared identity who live in a variety of different locales around the world.

A) diaspora
B) nationalists
C) free agents
D) peasants

Question 7

Members of a diaspora organized in support of nationalist struggles in their homeland or to agitate for a state of their own are known as

A) long-distance nationalists.
B) flexible citizens.
C) trans-border citizens.
D) mass migrants.

Question 8

A group made up of citizens of a country who continue to live in their homeland plus the people who have emigrated from the country and their descendants, regardless of their current citizenship make up a

A) diaspora.
B) flexible citizenry.
C) long-distance nation.
D) trans-border citizenry.

Question 9

The rights and obligations of citizenship accorded by the laws of a state make up the concept of

A) flexible citizenship.
B) legal citizenship.
C) substantive citizenship.
D) transnational citizenship.

Question 10

The actions people take, regardless of their citizenship status, to assert their membership of a state are referred to as peoples'

A) flexible citizenship.
B) legal citizenship.
C) substantive citizenship.
D) transnational citizenship.

Question 11

A nation-state in which the relationships between citizens and the state extend to wherever citizens reside is a(n)

A) diaspora.
B) postnational nation-state.
C) transnational nation-state.
D) trans-border citizenry.

Question 12

The strategies and effects employed by managers, technocrats, and professionals who move regularly across state boundaries and seek both to circumvent and to benefit from different nation-state regimes are called

A) flexible citizenship.
B) legal citizenship.
C) substantive citizenship.
D) diasporic citizenship.

Question 13

A new form of citizenship developing among residents of indigenous territories who have been granted full control and authority over lands that are located within the boundaries of nation-states is called

A) flexible citizenship.
B) substantive citizenship.
C) postnational citizenship.
D) territorial citizenship.

Question 14

According to Erazo, negotiating the specific responsibilities and duties associated with territorial citizenship is one of the key sites of enacting

A) sovereignty.
B) flexible citizenship.
C) a postnational ethos.
D) multiculturalism.

Question 15

Nations are groups of people who

A) share the same genetic information.
B) have always lived in the same territory.
C) believe they share a set of common attributes.
D) fight for the survival of the group.

Question 16

According to the text, a central theme in multicultural debates within Europe is

A) coming to terms with increasing numbers of Muslims living in countries where Christianity has historically been dominant.
B) whether to accept the model of multiculturalism predominant in the United States.
C) providing a single, European response to migration.
D) assuring state intervention to resolve disputes involving Muslims and Christians in historically Christian nations.

Question 17

In recent years, political candidates from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere have come to the United States to seek votes from migrants from those countries who have migrated to the United States. In the terms used in the text, this signals the emergence of

A) associated citizenship.
B) a cosmopolitan state.
C) a transborder state.
D) a collapsing state.

Question 18

According to John Bowen, as discussed in the text, how are French legal scholars working to craft solutions to the challenges Muslim marriage practices present to French law?

A) They are refusing to recognize any marriages or divorces that are not in keeping with French law.
B) They will only recognize Islamic marriages or divorces that were made outside France.
C) They are making "practical exceptions" to the concept of public order.
D) They are allowing polygamous marriages to occur, in certain circumstances.

Question 19

According to Rudy Colloredo-Mansfeld, vernacular statecraft is

A) state-initiated "conduct of conduct" of its subject population.
B) an attitude toward the world in which people submit to the governmentality of the capitalist market while trying to evade the governmentality of nation-states.
C) the repurposing of state administrative procedures by local communities under circumstances where state institutions are weak, unreliable, or absent.
D) based on the constant, powerful presence of a state that actively intervenes in local affairs.

Question 20

Define the anthropological concept of power and how it is understood in state and stateless societies. Provide examples from the text.

Question 21

Why would the concept of biopolitics be useful to anthropologists doing ethnographic research?

Question 22

The text state, "Politics is . . . very much a matter of struggling over meaning, not just of physical coercion." Discuss what this means, identifying concepts of power and politics used in the text. Support your discussion with examples.

Question 23

Describe the forms of "everyday peasant resistance" as articulated by Scott. Identify examples of behavior in American society that could be described in similar terms. Discuss what this suggests about the circumstances in which practitioners of these actions live?

Question 24

Discuss the ways in which both Islamic and French legal scholars are working to address the issues raised by Islamic marriage in France.

Question 25

Discuss the concepts of nationalism and citizenship as they have are developing under the effects of globalization. Provide examples from the text in your discussion. Analyze how these concepts interrelate and where they diverge. What do you think the future of globalization will look like in these contexts?