ANTH 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cultural Relativism, International Inequality, Abjection
9 Apr 2018
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Celine dion & global flows: the way she markets herself to global audience changes her in return. Sahlins: important concept: indigenization of: people assimilate the foreign into local logics. They arise from flows (we need to be aware of these) Main point: different flows do not always map out onto one another. Film: how ideas of fairness are disconnected of realities. How profits flow out of zambia but not back in zambia again (no taxes) People got sick because of toxins from copper mining. Film points to how mining does not lead to prosperity. All 3 films deal with issues of modernity, inequality, connectivity, global flows. Mad masters: ritual -> mimickery and mocking of power of british. T-shirt travels: what we perceive to be donations but rare in fact massive profitable 2nd hand clothing. She traces commodity chain of clothes donated in us to those who sell these donated clothes on zambian market.
