ANTH 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Change, Scoot, Marc Rich
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Cultural styles (we will talk about this on thursday: ferguson: understand how people are experiencing demise of modernity. Ideas of modernity vs global economic realities: appadurai and scapes: idea, techno, ethno, finance, and media, disjunctures between scapes, film: (cid:498)stealing africa: (ow much profit is enough? (cid:499, ferguson reading highlights these global disjuncture. Film today: stealing africa: how much profit is enough, about financial scapes, it focuses on the disconnect between the experiences of people living in small town in switzerland collecting more tax than they need. Come: transfer pricing: enormously damaging phenomenon all the way to africa, get copper from africa that is not taxed, multinational groups are responsible for that, guy scoot: white vice-president of zambia. (e doesn(cid:495)t represent white interests. He is considered (cid:498)pro-poor(cid:499), (cid:498)pro-unemployed(cid:499: since 2001, copper prices have tripled! Yet zambia(cid:495)s human indicators have not become better!