the global and local

Question 1

globalization and anthropologiz

Answer 1

1960-70; shift to record many different cultures due to rapid social change in world before they ‘die out’
- conflicts between societies in intermingingling

Question 2

what is globalization

Answer 2

wordwide integration of previously distinct culture adn economies

Question 3

approaches of anthropologizest

Answer 3

study large scale social challenges in local relaitonships and trends/flows of tradition and modernity

Question 4

last decade global

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flow of people, idesa images and comoodities

reduction of spac e(internet and facebook)

multitude of modern objects; cocoacola, denim

urban; cosmopolitan an dconsumeraiton
immigration to city centers ad cultural mergling

global symbols and brands are consumed and reterrotiziled

Question 5

coca cola

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a global symbol not just tied to one placed

marketed different

just like cadbury (british buisiness had to adapt to chinese culture when trying to seel there by renaming chocolate into local names) ; shows ressillence of LOCALITY

Question 6

change in anthropology

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study media, communication, migration and commerce (1980s and 1990s)

1. concepts of society and culture more problamtic as nto clsoed or uniform
2. mixing of global and local causing transformation

Question 7

arjun appadurai

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proposed a framework for studying cultural flow in contemporary world: (de-territortalization and re-territorilization of global processes; FLUID spaces; reality no longer conflicts as much with imagining worlds of others)

1. ethnoscape
2. technoscape
3. financescape
4. ideoscape
5. mediascape

Question 8

global and local relationships

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two way relationships where global is domesticaated.

interplay o findigenous and hybridaition

global ;mixing of global and local

Question 9

history of globalization

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historical process; dynamics of periphery and core;
history written usualyl from a speicfic perspctive to historycal represent a group

colubmus byoage to americas; pained as ‘discovery’ and ‘awaekening of european modernity (olivia harris); ‘untill the arrival of us there was no historY”: POST COLONIAL THINKING of HISTORY ad a GLOBAL fact

Question 10

postcolonial thinkers

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go against:
1. statitc and singular representation in history (the western centric view tha thistory is for white people)

2. give rise to marginalized community to relcaim this history!

Question 11

chinua achebe

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wrote things fall apart; talks about presentation of nigerian culture from local perspective

uses oral sterytelling and ancestral history to portray arrival of colonilzation in nigeria

proverbs, igbo berbs and phrases as nigerian identity

Question 12

sylvia wynter

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rethinkins dominant concepts of being human; proposes new humanism to break form sattic flassiciations of humans

says world is divided

Question 13

frantz fann

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advocated radical ant-racist humanisim in algeria; against white supremacy AND black superiority

wants to end colonlization violce in a ‘new history of humanity’

Question 14

anthropological perspectives on global and local

Answer 14

how is ethnography used?

how does it challenges ethnography and global predicaments and intenrnational challenges?

Question 15

love and marriage in india

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tradition and marriage intersect in india in marriage and love as more people ‘marry due to choice’

Question 16

arranged marriage

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• arranged by elders/parents/family
• based on community match (caste, class, religion, ethnicity)
• marriage as a duty and expcetation of sons and daughers to strengthen community and preserve status and class
• love NOT a prerequirisie

orthodox view; unity and union important; love chllanges the ‘natural social conserations of community and social ties’ as its b ased on love and therefore antisocial

Question 17

love marriacge

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marriages based on choice especially in cosmopolitan areas like mumbai are rising
-uban landscape allows for more lover ‘meeting places’

-mobile phones allows for increased contact and less chaperoning

free choise and individualism; social relationships evolve in linear development towards neoliberalism? NO!
Love and marriage not new, as the idea of love is not new just being approached differently

romatnic love has been portraye din indian folokore and media previously (bollywoord movies for example and wet sari scenes in the 1950s)

Question 18

henrike donner?

aims

Answer 18

‘doing it our way’ 2016; ethnography in middle class bengali urbanites of Koklkata

aims to problematize notion of globalization and modernity causing social relationships to evolve in a linera manner towards free choice and individualism

he says: such transofmrations are influential but long standing fransformation of india (patrilocality, reality) must be included in analysis

Question 19

donner findings on love marriages

Answer 19

self chose unions precded by premarital elationships contravase castes and parental authority;

choise marriages however are STILl negogiates to GROUP ideneitites and colonial history

older generations view love marriages as threat to indian culture

younger generation: want to both achieve ‘good girl’ idea who allows for joiny family and approval but also want to have a choice; hence choice with parental consent ; integrate normative institions

Question 20

donner findings on love.com marrages (arranged)

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self chosen marriages; rising in india; allows girl to CHOOSE between preselected partners or initiate marriage with involve of parents

young people find potential suitors online and parents preselct candidates= collaboration

modern outlook of choise while respecitng family tradition

Question 21

donner final claims

Answer 21

MODERNITY is a choice that can coincide with the REVIVAL of traditional family values; is NOT backward thinking

individilualism and choice leads to reformed relations as opposed to romatnic love and affairs

are reframed in patrilocal and family ideologyies

hence; globalization is not a linear and homogenous process

Question 22

belief in witchrfact

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revival of occult practices in africa since 1990s

witches as a supernatural force that embody people to act in good or bad ways

in anthropology; witchract operates at a faste rate and has shift and change din the public discourse post liberation and global capitilism

Question 23

argument of comarroff and comaroff

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revival of witchraft conideces with social transformation post lbieration in african communities

Question 24

what is occult enomcomies about?

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ethnography in south africa about witchraft;

zombies and nefarious creatures; intent of poeple to diminish power of lowranked societies

witchraft is a way in which capitalism and urban chang ein sourht africa is understood; moral panic due to the acculmuation of wealth

postapartheid; belief in freedom and indepdent not achieved

‘new situations called for new magic’; hence witchraft new mode of expressing consciousness and discotent

e.g. baboon with a shoppooing bag; is a witch; symbol of capitliasm

Question 25

deboeck…?

Answer 25

2013; central africa;

Congo; looks at renewal of pentecostalism

Question 26

pentecoastalism

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Brought by missionaries;

– entrepreneural spirit that demonizes ancestral spirit

Question 27

kinshasa

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city in congo cauht between ancestral past and pentecoastliasm

modernity not asserted by locals into global market promoted by africans

Question 28

deboeck argument

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• individual achievement and social mobility in pentecoastlism ‘be the best christian you can be’

idea of salvation attached to matieral gain

social division in cities; causing cetian people to feel ecluded which means regeneraiton of city

urban plannign works on this exclusionary logic; poor people in slums are promised moralucles to ocntrast moverty= resutsl in increase of the occult as ancestors dont function in same way

spiritual uncertainty mirrors matieral opportunities of the city

Question 29

abu lughod

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‘do muslim women really need saving’ 2002

Question 30

war on terror and cultural relavitivms

Answer 30

problematic 9/11 media discource around islaminc women; idea of culture and cultural relativity

resort to ‘culture’ flattens sociohistorical compleixities; cultural icons plastered over mess yhistorical and political narratives

this creates dichotoimes between west and east

Question 31

the burqa

Answer 31

history of veiling; has multiple meanigns and uses

does not imply lack of agency

afghan women have differnt desires to west; not good enough to adopt cultural relativism; hardwork and diffences must be acknowledged as products of different structures desires and histories