ANTB20H3 Lecture : What is Globalization? (14th January)
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Ex: english or a form of english: preservation of culture loss of culture. assumption that change is happening at a faster rate. mobilizing around the preservation the share with other people. Culture as being invented or reinvented: standardization of culture and/or lifestyle (from the article, dominance of the media and its values, as well as ideologies like freedom/human rights. Tensions between (and within) cultural groups have become intensified. Too simple of a term, argues other anthropologists. Is it new: more intense, new awareness? (global consciousness) Continuities and discontinuities: continuities, exchange of ideas/women/people/things, conquering. Erikson recent and only emerged in the 1980s: globalization means homogenization, globalization is opposed to human rights, globalization is a threat to local identities. As compared to mercantile capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, earlier ideas of nationalism, the industrial revolution, etc: new to the person world, the world beginning with the end of the cold war (communism vs capitalism) in.