What does the case of the Rohingya in Myanmar, who were once officially recognized and later stripped of citizenship, demonstrate about ethnicity?
Explanation
This question asks students to draw a key conclusion from the chapter's opening case study, emphasizing the anthropological argument that ethnicity and citizenship are political constructs that can be created and destroyed by state power.
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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?
According to Fredrik Barth, what is the most accurate way to describe ethnicity?
What 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?
In 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?
The metaphor of a 'melting pot' is used to describe which process of ethnic interaction?
What does the term 'ethnic boundary marker' refer to?
In the context of the Rwandan genocide, what was the primary purpose of the national identity cards established by the Belgian colonial government in 1933?
According to Tone Bringa's ethnography in Bosnia, what was the primary cause of the war in the 1990s?
What 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?
In Liisa Malkki's ethnography of Hutu refugees in Tanzania, what are 'mythico-histories'?
What is the definition of a 'diaspora' as it is used in the chapter's discussion of Eritreans?
In 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?
What does the process of 'situational negotiation of identity' entail?
According to the chapter, what is the approximate number of nation-states in the world today that existed in their current form 50 years ago?
The 1982 Citizenship Law in Myanmar had what effect on the Rohingya people?
In Eduardo Archetti's study of Argentina, what is the 'potrero' and what national style does it represent?
What is the key difference between assimilation and multiculturalism as models of ethnic interaction in the United States?
The landmark study 'Beyond the Melting Pot' by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan found what regarding European immigrants in the United States?
How is the modern state of Iraq described in relation to its history?
What does the chapter identify as a key reason for ethnicity's rising prominence and power in the face of globalization?
Which of the following is NOT listed as an example of an ethnic boundary marker?
What is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group called?
In 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?
What percent of the population in Malaysia do the Malays, who protested in 2005 over unequal wealth distribution, constitute?
According to the chapter, which of the following best describes a 'nation'?
In the Dai Minority Park in China, what happens to the annual three-day water festival ritual?
What is the primary argument of Rogers Brubaker's book 'Ethnicity without Groups'?
What does an 'origin myth' do for a group's ethnic identity?
In Victoria Bernal's study of Eritrea, the activities of the Eritrean diaspora, enabled by new communication technologies, are described as a form of what?
How many European immigrants arrived in Argentina between 1870 and 1914?
What is the central argument of anthropologist Haley Duschinski's work on Kashmir regarding the ethnic identity of young people in the movement?
What is the defining characteristic of a nation-state that distinguishes it from a state?
In the context of Dubai's identity makeover, what complicated story of ethnicity lies underneath the new skyline?
What is the concept of 'nationalism' defined as in the chapter?
How did the Royal Bafokeng Nation (RBN) in South Africa build its initial wealth after reacquiring their land?
In her study of Indian immigrants in New York, what does Johanna Lessinger identify as the 'symbolic center of Indian immigrant life'?
What was the result of the 1993 United Nations-backed cease-fire in Rwanda?
According to the chapter, why do most ethnic groups and nations feel ancient and stable despite being recent historical creations?
When the British consolidated control over Myanmar in the nineteenth century, what was the primary impact on ethnic identities and political borders?
In the case study of the former Yugoslavia, where did anthropologist Tone Bringa conduct her fieldwork?
What does the chapter suggest about the concept of 'an American ethnic identity' through the example of the American origin myth?
As of 1967, what was the approximate population of the city of Dubai?
In anti-colonial movements, such as the one in Zimbabwe, nationalism often gains strength through what process?
How is 'ethnicity' described in relation to 'kinship' in the chapter?
In the Royal Bafokeng Nation, who owns the shares in the RBN, Inc. corporate conglomerate?
What two national infrastructure projects were crucial in 'inventing a French nation' in the early 1800s?
What is meant by the observation that some observers refer to the Bafokeng as 'a rich nation of poor people'?
Victoria Bernal's ethnography 'Nation as Network' explores how out-migration and new media have transformed notions of citizenship for which country?
After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when were the identity cards listing each citizen's ethnic identity discontinued?