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ANTH1150 - Lecture 6 notes
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019The global economy
Key terms:
- Core
- Flexible citizenship
- cosmopolitanism
- cultural hybridization
- cultural imperialism
- dependency theory
- diaspora
- modernization theory
- multiculturalism neoliberalism
- periphery
- world-system theory
Views of the Political Economy
- Anthropological theorizing during the Cold War dominated by debates about the
e cacy of modernization theory and dependency theory
- Modernization theory: a theory that argues that the social change occurring in non-
Western societies under colonial rule was a necessary and inevitable prelude to
higher levels of social development that had been reached by the more “modern”
nations
• Repackaged as “neoliberalism”
Dependency theory: a theory that argues that the success of “independent” capitalist
nations has required the failure of “dependent” colonies or nations whose economies
have been distorted to serve the needs of dominant capitalist outsiders
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Decolonization: Modernization versus Dependency
- By the 1980s, anthropological scholarship was dominated by globalization, or the
reshaping of local conditions by powerful global systems in an ever-intensifying scale
• Broke down economic and political barriers between First, Second, and Third
Worlds
World-system theory: from the late fteenth and early sixteenth centuries, European
capitalism began to incorporate other regions and peoples into a world system whose
parts were linked economically but not politically
- Core
- Periphery
- Semi-periphery
I. Core: the nations specializing in banking, nance, and highly skilled industrial
production (powerful Western nations)
II. Periphery: those exploited former colonies that supply the core with cheap food
and raw materials
III. Semi-periphery: states that have played peripheral roles in the past but that now
have su cient industrial capacity and other resources to possibly achieve core
status in the future (Brazil, Mexico)
Cultural Processes in a Global World
- Globalization does not a ect all individuals and cultures equally. Factors that
intensify or minimize globalization’s interconnectedness:
• Location
• Temporal con ict
• Cultural interpretations
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