Ethnicity and Nationalism
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What is the primary way, according to the chapter, that Hutu and Tutsi groups in Rwanda were distinguished before the early twentieth-century colonial rule?
View answer and explanationAccording to Fredrik Barth, what is the most accurate way to describe ethnicity?
View answer and explanationWhat term does Benedict Anderson use to describe a nation because most of its members will never meet yet they imagine themselves to have a common heritage and collective responsibility?
View answer and explanationIn the case of the Bafokeng, Inc. in South Africa, what was the term used to describe the ethnic group's transformation into a corporate conglomerate built on its ethnic identity?
View answer and explanationThe metaphor of a 'melting pot' is used to describe which process of ethnic interaction?
View answer and explanationWhat does the term 'ethnic boundary marker' refer to?
View answer and explanationIn the context of the Rwandan genocide, what was the primary purpose of the national identity cards established by the Belgian colonial government in 1933?
View answer and explanationAccording to Tone Bringa's ethnography in Bosnia, what was the primary cause of the war in the 1990s?
View answer and explanationWhat term does the chapter use for political, military, or religious leaders who promote a worldview through the lens of ethnicity and use propaganda and state power to mobilize people?
View answer and explanationIn Liisa Malkki's ethnography of Hutu refugees in Tanzania, what are 'mythico-histories'?
View answer and explanationWhat is the definition of a 'diaspora' as it is used in the chapter's discussion of Eritreans?
View answer and explanationIn David Lan's study of the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe, what role did the spirits of dead Shona kings and chiefs, known as Mhondoro, play?
View answer and explanationWhat does the process of 'situational negotiation of identity' entail?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, what is the approximate number of nation-states in the world today that existed in their current form 50 years ago?
View answer and explanationThe 1982 Citizenship Law in Myanmar had what effect on the Rohingya people?
View answer and explanationIn Eduardo Archetti's study of Argentina, what is the 'potrero' and what national style does it represent?
View answer and explanationWhat is the key difference between assimilation and multiculturalism as models of ethnic interaction in the United States?
View answer and explanationThe landmark study 'Beyond the Melting Pot' by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan found what regarding European immigrants in the United States?
View answer and explanationHow is the modern state of Iraq described in relation to its history?
View answer and explanationWhat does the chapter identify as a key reason for ethnicity's rising prominence and power in the face of globalization?
View answer and explanationWhich of the following is NOT listed as an example of an ethnic boundary marker?
View answer and explanationWhat is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group called?
View answer and explanationIn the case study of the India Day Parade in New York, the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (SALGA) was denied permission to march. In this situation, what became a more powerful boundary marker than country of origin?
View answer and explanationWhat percent of the population in Malaysia do the Malays, who protested in 2005 over unequal wealth distribution, constitute?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, which of the following best describes a 'nation'?
View answer and explanationIn the Dai Minority Park in China, what happens to the annual three-day water festival ritual?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary argument of Rogers Brubaker's book 'Ethnicity without Groups'?
View answer and explanationWhat does an 'origin myth' do for a group's ethnic identity?
View answer and explanationIn Victoria Bernal's study of Eritrea, the activities of the Eritrean diaspora, enabled by new communication technologies, are described as a form of what?
View answer and explanationHow many European immigrants arrived in Argentina between 1870 and 1914?
View answer and explanationWhat is the central argument of anthropologist Haley Duschinski's work on Kashmir regarding the ethnic identity of young people in the movement?
View answer and explanationWhat is the defining characteristic of a nation-state that distinguishes it from a state?
View answer and explanationIn the context of Dubai's identity makeover, what complicated story of ethnicity lies underneath the new skyline?
View answer and explanationWhat is the concept of 'nationalism' defined as in the chapter?
View answer and explanationHow did the Royal Bafokeng Nation (RBN) in South Africa build its initial wealth after reacquiring their land?
View answer and explanationIn her study of Indian immigrants in New York, what does Johanna Lessinger identify as the 'symbolic center of Indian immigrant life'?
View answer and explanationWhat was the result of the 1993 United Nations-backed cease-fire in Rwanda?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, why do most ethnic groups and nations feel ancient and stable despite being recent historical creations?
View answer and explanationWhen the British consolidated control over Myanmar in the nineteenth century, what was the primary impact on ethnic identities and political borders?
View answer and explanationIn the case study of the former Yugoslavia, where did anthropologist Tone Bringa conduct her fieldwork?
View answer and explanationWhat does the chapter suggest about the concept of 'an American ethnic identity' through the example of the American origin myth?
View answer and explanationAs of 1967, what was the approximate population of the city of Dubai?
View answer and explanationIn anti-colonial movements, such as the one in Zimbabwe, nationalism often gains strength through what process?
View answer and explanationHow is 'ethnicity' described in relation to 'kinship' in the chapter?
View answer and explanationWhat does the case of the Rohingya in Myanmar, who were once officially recognized and later stripped of citizenship, demonstrate about ethnicity?
View answer and explanationIn the Royal Bafokeng Nation, who owns the shares in the RBN, Inc. corporate conglomerate?
View answer and explanationWhat two national infrastructure projects were crucial in 'inventing a French nation' in the early 1800s?
View answer and explanationWhat is meant by the observation that some observers refer to the Bafokeng as 'a rich nation of poor people'?
View answer and explanationVictoria Bernal's ethnography 'Nation as Network' explores how out-migration and new media have transformed notions of citizenship for which country?
View answer and explanationAfter the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when were the identity cards listing each citizen's ethnic identity discontinued?
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