ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theoretical Definition, Arjun Appadurai, Underdetermination
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Provide examples from the readings *no personal experiences etc. *scapes is doing something culture as a concept is not. Fluid, changing, outside of boundaries vs. thinking culture is set/fixed ( atleast in presentation) Changing nature of terrain and view of landscape (perspective does matter) Takes cult. outside of the geographical place; perspectives of scapes or influences influences how you are seen and others are seen; disjuncture: cult. and econ. not bound to a partic. location. Dissolving barriers like time and distance (time-space compression due to tech progress) Hybridization of cults and increasing mixing of peoples. Intensification of connects between diff parts of the world and our increasing consciousness of development. What kinds of new diffs and ineq"s arise (social ineq"s that arise and strat"s of resistence?) What people expect and what they say (dbm) Contradictions between what people say and what people do.
