Deck 10: Perspectives in Globalization

Question 1

Each of the following terms has been used to describe globalization except:

A) shifting world
B) decompression of time and space
C) global ecumene
D) deterritorialization

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The belief that the unregulated market is a far better regulator of economic (ansocial and cultural) life than the state is called:

A) neoliberalism
B) globalization
C) globalized labor
D) cultural negotiation

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following is not a major hallmark of globalization?

A) asymmetric power relations
B) increased diffusion of knowledge and images
C) increased capacity for indigenous people to create technological innovation
D) increased forms of cultural communication

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Decorated cloths called molas are forms of tourist art associated with:

A) Guatemala
B) Honduras
C) Panama
D) Costa Rica

Question 5

The gendered distribution of global labor is justified by a global ideology thawomen have a "natural" ability to work in:

A) agricultural labor
B) assembly and light manufacturing factories
C) chemical and nuclear manufacturing factories
D) education and teaching fields

Question 6

The stated purpose of NAFTA is to:

A) reduce tariffs and ease trade restrictions on international goods from signatory nations
B) increase trade restrictions and tariffs on international goods from signatory nations
C) reduce tariffs and increase national restrictions to provide more selective trade goods from signatory nations
D) reduce the market for small-scale producers and allow full growth potential to multinational corporations

Question 7

According to Passel (2006), the Pew Hispanic Research Center estimates that thapproximate number of unauthorized migrants in the United States from Mexico is:

A) more than 10 million
B) more than 8 million
C) more than 6 million
D) less than 5 million

Question 8

In maquiladoras transnational corporations:

A) work to make shop-floor culture attractive to both men and women in order to maximize production
B) employ primarily female managers to improve hiring practices, shop-floor culture and productivity
C) work to feminize productivity through language, shop-floor culture, and hiring practices
D) work to overcome the feminized labor culture that exists in the factories due to women's natural ability in assembly work

Question 9

What is meant by the term "biosprospecting"?

A) a search for commercially useful plant genetic material for the international drug market
B) a search for indigenous plant materials in order to obtain new genetic material for stem cell research programs
C) the harvesting of both plant and animal materials for zoos and other conservation programs
D) a form of excavation and analysis that allows indigenous communities joint venture involvement in the development and exploitation of native-produced goods

Question 10

Which area has suffered the most devastating losses of forest cover due tdeforestation in the past decade?

A) Mesoamerica
B) Central America
C) Amazonia
D) Andean region

Question 11

An approach that stresses conflictive relationships between members of differensocial categories with unequal access to productive resources and economic and political power is called:

A) political economy
B) political ecology
C) systemic violence
D) gendered global division of labor

Question 12

What is meant by the term "ethnographic representation"?

A) the process by which anthropologists describe and form an image of the culture that they study
B) the manner that indigenous peoples position themselves within the cultural narrative
C) the use of multiple ethnographers within a single field site in order to obtain an understanding from several perspectives
D) the way ethnography and ethnographers are perceived by indigenous peoples

Question 13

Which of the following is not a frequent cause of misunderstanding betweemigrant nannies and their employers?

A) type of food provided to children
B) types of discipline or lack of it
C) wasting of food
D) cultural enrichment provided

Question 14

About one half of the 500,000 Salvadorans living in the United States are in tharea of:

A) New York City
B) Atlanta
C) Los Angeles
D) Miami

Question 15

Clearly, globalization is pushing the world toward a more homogeneous culture.

Question 16

In the past twenty years, global travel has increased fourfold.

Question 17

The initial ventures into tourist art of the Taquile residents in Puno were partltriggered by the active involvement of the Organization of American States.

Question 18

The global economy is highly gendered.

Question 19

A large percentage of Mexican tomatoes are imported by the United States.

Question 20

Some itinerant Mexican farmworkers are in the United States legally.

Question 21

Maquiladoras are found in Mexico only.

Question 22

In the Amazon area the colonial practice of shifting cultivation was the prime causof the deforestation witnessed today.

Question 23

A prime cause of the recent deforestation suffered in Central America is due tdemand for export goods and resources from these economies.

Question 24

In many areas of the United States women migrants find work more easily thamen.

Question 25

What are the two major dimensions of neoliberalism?

Question 26

Give three major consequences of NAFTA in Mexico.

Question 27

What is meant by a "remittance" on the global labor market?

Question 28

What does Wright mean by the term "death by cultural narrative" (2001) whedescribing the deaths of maquila workers in Ciudad Juárez?

Question 29

What was the purpose of the El Dorado Task Force?

Question 30

Describe and discuss the invention of tradition that is ongoing in contemporarCusco, Peru.

Question 31

Use one example from the chapter to illustrate the effects of tourism on the nativhandicraft markets in Latin America.

Question 32

List and evaluate the potential pros and cons of "bioprospecting."