Anth195 Test 2 Study Set

Mix of writing true/false and writing short sentence answers. Phrased a bit differently than how the canvas quizzes were asked to help learn what is actually true and whats actually false.

T/F: Marx believes that one marker of the present epoch is that class antagonisms have been simplified. Communist Manifesto.

True

T/F: The following are what Marx argues what the Bourgeoisie respond to crises in capitalism:

Deepening Exploitation

Opening up new Markets

Putting each other out of business

True

Marx argues that the price a workers labor is determined by their necessary means of:

Subsistence

Marx argues that as labor becomes divided into smaller and smaller tasks the labor is simplified AND:

Special skills become worthless

T/F: Marcus believes one of the concerns about multi-site fieldwork is that it might not be considered objective due to the multiple perspectives involved

True

T/F: Marcus believes that after reading his article, any anthropologist will be able to write the first multi-sited ethnography

False

Observing how the expansion of the sugar trade remade South America would most clearly be an example of which of Marcus’ Methods?

Follow the Thing

T/F: Marcus believes that by multi-site fieldwork leads to circumstantial activism because fieldworkers will:

Not engage with activist who similarly move across multiple sites

Not understand politics better because they will move through different spaces and commitments

False

T/F: Vega argues that when you look through the history of the midewest, you will find that it is actually quite homogenous

False

Vega explains that a majority of the Latino migrants she interviewed most recently lived in:

Other part of the US

T/F: Vega uses the metapohr of a crossroads to explain how:

People come together and depart

Identity is formed in meeting places

People build bridges across nations

True

T/F: Vega explains that as Latinos build stronger connections to Indiana they lose their connections to their homes or family out of the country

False

Which of Marcus’ methods does Holmes say he is using?

Follow the people

T/F: Holmes decises to cross the border because of the following:

There are few first hand accounts of crossing th eborder after 9/11

Wants to better understand Sufrimiento

True

Holmes argues that the Push and Pull school of migration studies is flawed because:

It considers migration to be voluntary

T/F: Holmes believes that migrants should consider where it is worth “risking their lives” before crossing the border

False

T/F: McGrath argues that it is important to recognize structural violence because it helps us highlight the individual responsible for such violence

False

McGrath suggests that Paul Farmers ethnography of Structural Violence can be advanced by

Data Visualization

McGrath argues that by referring to COVID as the great equalizer, it hides:

Geographic disparities in COVID cases

T/F: Galtung defines violence as anything that stops someone from reaching their full potential

True

T/F: Holmes uses Embodied Anthropology so he can explain how he was impacted equally by the work he did alongside his companions

False

Holmes explains that Symbolic Violence

Naturalized Hierarchies

T/F: Homes argues that berry growers are selfish, wealth, and unconcenred about workers health

False

T/F: Holmes argues that the following are examples of Bad Faith:

White summer workers claiming they understand migrants work conditions

Treating indigenous languages as dialects

When technical, efficient pickers are though of as ‘unskilled’

True

Crossing the border costs migrants about:

$1,500 - $2,500

Which of the following medical issues does Holmes NOT Inversitgate in this chapter (4)

Toothache

T/F: Holmes argues that medical issues faced by migrants are the result of the following:

No Political violence

Non-neoliberal capitalism

Non-racist issues

False

T/F: Bourgois argues that forms of vioelcne must be de-linked in order to be studies

False

T/F: Rene Descartes thought it partially responsible for:
Separating mind from body

Centering biology on material matter

Making the soul the domain of religion

True

T/F: The authors argue that in Non-Western epistemologies, the following representations are common:

The body as a harmonious whole

The body as a complementary duality

True

T/F: The authors argues that times of crisis control over societies seek to control bodies more:

True

The authors argue that ultimately sickness is:

A form of communuication

Rather than focusing on patients in this chapter (5), Holmes turns his attention to:

Medical professionals

T/F: Under the Clinical Gaze, the patient isnt revealed and values as a full person

True

T/F: Holmes argues that focusing on behavioral health is a good solution to the issues he finds with the clinical gaze

False

The LNI Doctor explains that Abelinos knee problems persist because he:

Does not know how to bend over

T/F: Migrant working conditions were normalized by people:

Getting used to seeing them

Claiming the migrants had a great life in Mexico

Claiming they were better than conditions in Mexico

True

Migrant working conditions are Naturalized by claiming migrant laborers like:

Working close to the ground

Holmes argues that social scientists should be focused on the:

Denaturalization of Social Suffering

Holes found that most of the Triqui people he spent time with would support a fair temporary workers system where employers were:

Not linked to a single employer

Dipesh Chakrabarty explains that in the Anthropocene, humans have become geological agents, changing the most:

Basic physical processes of the earth

T/F: Ghosh argues that for much of human history, large settlements were always built on the waters edge

False

Ghosh is especially worried about the potential impact that a future hurrican would have on:

Mumbai

What did Ghosh experience in Dehli?

A Tornado