ANTH 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 76: Ogoni People, Bioprospecting, Dependency Theory
17 May 2017
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Un declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. Indigenous people do have rights and need to be recognized. International law and claims to land, resources, and cultural heritage. Chapter 14 part 2 a global world: Modernization theory: a theory that argues that they 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. 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. World-system theory: a theory that argues that, from the late fifteenth 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: in world-system theory, the nations specializing in banking, finance, and highly skilled industrial production.
