Anthropology Flashcards
Globalization
- Is the continually increasing ratio of the number of social interactions to the numbers of people
- The world is ever more connected and becoming more connected yet not homogeneous!
What is the Appadurai’s notion of local?
• Appadurai thinks we should get rid of the local, people are defined by much more than the local
- Solution
What does Appadurai replace the notion with?
with intimacy
What is scape?
Flows/ intimacies/ communities/ imaginary worlds created via globalization
Assemblages of people, objects, ideas (ways of being)
5 scapes
ethnoscape technoscape finanscape mediascape ideoscape
Ethnoscape
produced by flows of business, personnel, guest workers, tourists and refuges. Not bounded to nation state borders.
Technoscape
produced by flows of machinery, technology, and software produced by transnational corporations and government agencies
Finanscape
produced by flows of capital, currencies (tradable assets of any kind, stock, dept, notes)
Mediascape
produced by flows of images and information through print media, television and film
Ideoscape
produced by flows of ideology (western) worldview like democracy, sovereignty and welfare.
Mark Auge
French Anthropologist
non places- airports, hotel rooms, shopping centers
spaces
spaces of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as “places”
Generate memories, no history
What are the contact zones as defined by James Clifford?
- Culture in motion
- “World that doesn’t stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum”
- People and things cross paths
- Narrative – discontinuous
- Prose – various and indirect
- Personal explorations
- No “narratives and villages” but rather “people going places, hybrid environments, traveling cultures…”
Hyperglobalists
Nation states are becoming weak and are on their way out
Transformationists
Globalization changes the state but the state still persists
Time space compression
• Time “abolishes” space
o Technological innovation means more space conquered in less time
• The change in sensibility a change in reality itself
o How we view, experience, and express the world
Mcdonaldization
World is becoming culturally homogenous due to U.S. dominated corporate culture