ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Transnationalism, Neoliberalism, Ethnography
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Final exam: worth 40%- 2 hours (2-4) 1 hr each (or 15 minutes each for sa and 45 minutes for long essay) Gender, politics, globalization in the dominican republic and class, gender and race. Global capitalism and labour: sugar plantation and tourism. Culture is something that is bounded or unchanging whereas scapes can be changing and the perspectives also change, perspective of landscape depends on where you are standing) Dissolving barriers like time and distance (time-space compression due to technological progress) Makes political border increasingly irrelevant (borderless world)---nation states and borders do apply (people coming from haiti to dominican republic) Hybridization of cultures and increasing mixing of peoples. Intensification of connections between different parts of the world and out increasing consciousness of this development. What do anthropologists study (part of a question): Just because the movies are watched both in nigeria and india, it doesn"t mean they are interpreted the same way (it means something in india and another thing.