Author Question: If you were invited to attend a potlatch among the Kwakwaka'wakw Indians of the Pacific Northwest, ... (Read 132 times)

jho37 · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

If you were invited to attend a potlatch among the Kwakwaka'wakw Indians of the Pacific Northwest, you would probably __________.

A) be expected to bring cash to give to the host
B) come back empty-handed
C) eat a lot
D) never see those same people again afterward

Question 2

What are some of the general effects of contemporary economic globalization and the spread of Western capitalism?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

Who are the Andaman Islanders, what is their recent history, and what challenges are they facing today?

What will be an ideal response?

ong527 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 10, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. Dispossession of rural people from their land, substantial increase in the number of unemployed people.
2. Recruitment of former foragers/pastoralists/horticulturalists/family farmers into industrial wage-labor jobs.
3. Increased crop commercialization/production of export crops/mono-cropping creates a lack of food security.
4. Cultures are at the risk of being destroyed.

Answer to Question 3

Answer: The ideal answer will include:
1. The Andaman Islands is a group of islands off the east coast of India, and are part of that country.
2. Several distinct indigenous groups, each with very few members, inhabit the islands.
3. The total population of indigenous people is estimated to be around 400.
4. Two of the groups have had little or no contact with outsiders.
5. The encroachments of development and outside cultures threaten the existence of these cultures.