ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Transnationalism, Shapeshifting, Ethnography

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 202
• Professor: Eduardo Kohn

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Bestor: atlantic blue fin tuna is a huge (cid:373)igratory fish a(cid:374)d it"s (cid:448)isi(cid:271)le i(cid:374) lots of pla(cid:272)e throughout the (cid:449)orld; they are global. They move across boundaries, not obeying states or nations. Anthropology of globalization multisited a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ultis(cid:272)aped; it"s (cid:374)o lo(cid:374)ger s(cid:373)all lo(cid:272)als (anthropologists ha(cid:448)e a pla(cid:272)e to do eth(cid:374)ography e(cid:448)e(cid:374) if it is(cid:374)"t lo(cid:272)al). Globalization is not the replication of uniformity but an organization of diversity and increasing interconnection of various local cultures. The locality is no longer the only meaningful locus. Shape-shifting shamans frame the language discourse so that the person who is framed cannot get out. Code-switching: through language, but can be seen through other cultural modes (property of closure)