ANTH 234 Final Exam Study Guide

What is globalization? How are its various facets (e.g. economic, cultural) related? What is the distinction between globalization as empirical fact and globalization as ideology?
How does localization and singularization affect the ways globalization is experienced in a given place and time? Think of specific examples.
What can particular items (e.g., sugar, coffee, copper, broccoli) tell us about the processes of commodification and the ways in which cultural shifts in one part of the world may have a huge impact on workers in another part?
Compare IMF/World bank policies of the 1950s and 1960s with those of the 1980s and 1990s.
What is neoliberalism? Why is it liberalism? What are the competing threads Giddens identifies?
How do Third Way politics differ from the Old Left and the New Right? It is a compromised middle ground or truly a new direction?
What impact has free trade had in the U.S.? What impact has it had on developed countries?
Is Panoptimex motivated by a drive for profits? How is this tied to the corporate structure? What are the implications for workers?
Terrio calls artisinal chocolates a “craft commodity.” What does she mean by this? What are they like a commodity and yet not? How does the trade in human organs blur this boundery?
What is the role of dealers in the fine art market? How does the market in St. Louis differ from classic rational economic expectations?
What is the problem with measuring development by GNP per head? What are two solutions?
What are the benefits and drawbacks to free market competition?
Veblen clearly placed moral values on certain economic transactions. What is the neoliberal response to this?

globalization                                                                            
Keynesian economics
neoliberalism                                                                            
risk management
winner-take-all markets                                                            
civil society
saturation and maturation (Hannerz)                                         
Old Left
Veblen
New Right
the Veblen effect
gran cru
conspicuous consumption
coffee and capitalism
globalization and the imagination (Appadurai)
coffee as beverage of postmodernism
ethno-, media-, techno-, finance-, ideo-scapes
Seattle 1999
copper connectivity
Direct Action Network
rai music
origins and styles of coffee
les sapeurs
artisinal chocolates
authenticity
Belgian chocolates
deterritorialization
singularization/localization
fetishism: of consumer and of production
German SDP 1989 Basic Program
poverty, and measures of
WTO, IMF, Washington consensus
$1/day, $2/day
post-Fordism, late capitalism
basic basket (or bundle)
producerist to consumerist society
Lorenz curve
public goods
gini index
Hotelling's duopoly
income v. wealth
NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAA
Human Development Index
non-traditional agro-exports
off-shore assembly
alienation and Fordism