Globalization and Cultural Change

Question 1

Cultural Change

Answer 1

-Culture is adaptive and dynamic

• People discover new ways to do things or new knowledge
• People borrow knowledge, behaviors, and technology - ex of borrowing yoga as as exercise, not a spiritual experience

Question 2

Cultural Hybridity

Answer 2

• “fusion”
• practice of combining and assigning new meanings to previously separate beliefs, ideas, and practices
• could create a whole new nationality or religion
• ex of when yoga is fused with other mantras and devotions

Question 3

Wesch Youtube Video

Answer 3

new forms of expression, identity, and community

• are some things true or not
• perceived “images”
• feel for one another

Question 4

Winterberg Shopkeepers

Answer 4

Kashmiri Tourism Related Shopkeepers feel caught in the middle between their goal of ethnic reestablishment and their goal of making money through their business interactions with non-Kashmiri customers.

• wanted to reestablish Kashmiri Ethnic Pride and Superiority (polite behavior, hospitality, motivation power)
• challenges: cheating in commission, inappropriate pricing, lying about products

Question 5

Examples of Cultural Hybridity

Answer 5

• French Settlers in North America
• Quebeois (Canada) - developed their own culture, even though they are mostly descendants of the French
• Acadians in Newfoundland (also largely French)
• Cajuns in Louisiana (left Newfoundland)

Question 6

Globalization

Answer 6

integration of local, regional, or national production, exchange, and culture into a global system
-sometimes the focus is on economics, but in anthro. we look how these intersect with cultural practices

Question 7

Theories of Globalization

Answer 7

• Modernization
• Dependency Theory
• World-System Theory

Question 8

Modernization

Answer 8

• one primary route to development

- Anthropology thinks its bad/ multiple ways things can be done

Question 9

Dependency Theory

Answer 9

countries don’t move in one path but some counties get stuck
-create inequality

Question 10

World-System Theory (Wallerstem)

Answer 10

• too simple/ 3 levels
  1) Core System: creates culture, makes decisions
  2) Semi-periphery: countries in middle made progress, moving toward the core
• ie. China, S. Korea
  3) Periphery: doesn’t have a lot of say

Question 11

Cultural Negotiation

Answer 11

• we tend to maintain what our parents are

- finding a person’s own personal culture