stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
ASIA8022 Midterm Game Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
ASIA8022 Midterm Game
ASIA8022 Midterm Game
20 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
21 plays
Imported from external platform
Flashcards
20 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
20
Answers
1
One main theme of the first half of this course is that:
Interviews are always unreliable sources of information
Different research methods offer different insights and different limits
Research methods can not be combined
Ethnography is the best research method for everyone, everywhere
2
What is defined as 'an interrelated...set of statements, views or teachings, along with accompanying expressions'?
Text
Discourse
Education
Society
3
Other than one in the Americas, where was the first World Health Organisation regional office based?
Tokyo, Japan
Jakarta, Indonesia
New Delhi, India
Suva, Fiji
4
A special feature of the Shikoku O-Henro pilgrimage is:
The requirement to not eat food
Anonymous poetry found along the path
The lack of modern transportation options
The insistence on orthodox Buddhist theology
5
What is 'hegemony'?
A variety of hibiscus
Intellectual domination
Military power
A religious ritual
6
What claim would the Shanghai alley residents whom Arkaraprasertkul spoke to agree with?
Lilong (alleyway houses) need to be replaced
Lilong (alleyway houses) are a symbol of tradition
There are no true lilong (alleyway houses) left in Shanghai
Lilong (alleyway houses) are comfortable
7
A major 20th century text inspiring 'Western' engagements with Indian practices was:
Gandhi's Story of My Experiments with Truth
Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi
Ram Dass' Still Here
Black's 'Flexible Indian Labor'
8
Through participant observation in the USA, Brymer learned that in some places 'gangs':
Are the only means of making a living for young people
Only come into existence temporarily and in response to particular events
Are closely tied to religious institutions
Are too difficult a social problem to solve
9
According to Teun van Dijk, one of the most notable properties of racist discourse is:
The explicit denial that what is being expressed is racist
Its reproducibility on social media
Its presence in popular culture
The way it inspires laws and speech codes
10
Shameem Black notes that 'flexibility' is an ideal for both:
Academic work and the development of research methods
Cultural appropriation and new forms of commodification
Yoga practitioners and employers of Indian IT workers in the USA
Literary theorists and sociologists
11
Participant-observation research like Philippe Bourgois' study of drug dealers raises difficult questions about:
Whether anthropology and law enforcement can work together
How to get funding for controversial research
How one can never really be prepared for immersive fieldwork
The ethics of dangerous fieldwork
12
According to Narayan, the problem with identifying a 'native' or 'non-native' scholar is that one might overlook:
Changing definitions of citizenship
Historical patterns of migration
Expectations of objectivity in different disciplines
The hybridity of identity
13
During what years did the League of Nations Health Organization operate?
1921 - 1945
1975 - 2020
1968 - 1973
1880 - 1940
14
'To acknowledge ... personal locations is to admit the limits of one's ... view' (Narayan) means:
All knowledge is an illusion
Self-reflective methodology can lead to more productive dialogues
Culture and history are the same 'thing' from different perspectives
You must always define your terms clearly in advance
15
Interviews are:
Only useful if they statistically represent the average opinion
Always useful, especially early in a project
Complex speech forms with variable cultural expectations
Neutral, transparent means of gathering objective information
16
In participant observation, the 'participation' part means:
Using translators as often as you can
Spending at least a month in one place
Making sure you have travel insurance
Being as much a part of daily local life as possible
17
According to Carol Hayes, sashiko needlework has changed historically from being:
Only known in Japan to recognised globally
An urban art form to a rural one
Mostly reds and yellows to mostly blues and greens
A functional kind of craft to a more purely aesthetic art form
18
What does Fengyuan Ji call the attempt to influence people's ideas by manipulating the language they hear and use?
Discourse analysis
Discourse battles
Language policy
Linguistic engineering
19
For Tomoko Akami, what binary is too simple for understanding of Asian/Pacific politics in the 20th century?
Local - Global
Right - Wrong
Life - Death
National - International
20
Katerina Teaiwa found this a valuable research method:
Learning to carve religious objects
Learning to dance
Learning to sing epic poetry
Learning to cook breadfruit
