ANTH 1120 anthropology notes Fall 2020
January 7th 2020
Assigned Readings:
Stories of Culture and Place, Chapter 11: Anthropology, Cultural Change, and Globalization, pp. 237-294.
Scarborough, pp. 1-49
Globalization
Key Concepts:
> Define each key concept
● Change: is the re...
ANTH 1120 anthropology notes Fall 2020
January 7th 2020
Assigned Readings:
Stories of Culture and Place, Chapter 11: Anthropology, Cultural Change, and
Globalization, pp. 237-294.
Scarborough, pp. 1-49
Globalization
Key Concepts:
> Define each key concept
● Change: is the result of an action or a thought and is not always positive,
change does not equal progress
● Cosmopolitanism: Global outlook emerging in response to increasing
globalization, every nation is influenced by others
• Example: everyone can be involved in this (watching the film
parasite--makes you a part of the global community)
• Is a perspective contrasting to cultural imperialism and
ethnonationalism and it's about feeling like a global citizen rather
than a citizen of your own country
● Cultural imperialism: Seeing the world through western lens
● Deterritorialization: Before globalization, culture was tied with the place.
Culture would stay where the group lived. Fewer people moved around
● Economic migrant: people relocating for a small period of time to solely
focus on working to earn some kind of monetary reward
● Globalization: intensification of worldwide social relations linking distant
localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events
occurring many miles away and vice versa
• Example: Music is becoming interconnected; food + art; trading
products; Tai chi in toronto
● Isolationism: a state or process in which persons, groups, or cultures lose or
do not have communication or cooperation with one another, often
resulting in open conflict
● Macro level: Refers to large scale or large groups (state level)
● Micro level: Refers to small scale or individual groups (local level)
● Modernization: describes political, economic and social change.
A product of modernization is the increased flow of capital and
goods across the world
, ● Multi-sited ethnography: How the practice of fieldwork has changed
• Anthropologists are embarking on multi-site ethnographic
studies, where the focus is not on one geographic location
but a number of sites that share a common group of people,
task or ideology
• Another change is they are focusing their research on the
virtual world
● Progress: usually suggests a positive development, a gradual move towards
achieving a
goal or reaching a higher standard.
Ethnographic Examples:
>Describe each ethnographic example
,>Identify which concepts are relevant to the
example Textbook:
● Skolt Lapps
● Rana Plaza in Bangladesh
• A sweatshop in bangladesh that was built (illegally and without
meeting minimum requirements)
• Companies such as Joe Fresh employed workers here (in order to
get cheaper labour)
• Eventually, it collapsed due to a bad building foundation and it
amounted in several tragedies and the loss of many workers
lives
• Terrible working conditions and the monetary reward was minimal
● Nagy+ Qatar
● International Adoption
● Abu-Lughod+ Arab Spring
● Murray+ Development projects
● Walsh+ ecotourism / mining
● Boellstorff+ virtual
anthropology Lecture:
Scarborough
Pages 1-49
1. What did you learn about the following characters in the assigned reading:
1. Laura
• Caucassian girl in grade one
• Abandoned by her mother and left with her father Cory
• Ms. Hina enjoys her coming to the program and she enjoys
getting food from being there
• She enjoys learning to read with one letter at a time given by
Ms. Hina
• Was scared of her mom
• Dies during the Christmas break after a fire started in her
apartment
2. Hina
• Muslim women who works at a Ontario Reads Literacy Program
• She tried to help every child that comes in and ensures they
have enough food
• Tried to defend her program through emails to ensure this
happens
3. Sylvie
• Indiegnous child who lives with her mom and little brother
Johnny in a shelter
• Friends with Bing
• Struggles with her brother as he destroys her things
, • Her mom told her not to act weird at school or she would
have to go to the counselors office
• Comes from a low income family
4. Johnny
• Sylvies 3 year old brother
• Wants to play with Sylvies things but ends up destroying them
making her sad
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