ANTB20H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 6

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9 Apr 2011
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using culture as the basis to form a new identity. skardu: city in pakistan where people wanted to reshape cultural identity. culture has to be produced to be dynamic, and if culture is produced it needs producers (individuals actively engaged in acts of productions for very specific reasons) pakistan has gone through 4 major shifts of the ideology of culture; learning new ways of understanding the world around them, new modes of communication. Function of the failure of one group of people to convert social ties into durable associations and the success of another group of actors in establishing durable associations through which their impact on cultural identity is stronger. Tibetan script on pakistan sign, why is it in pakistan: skardu was part of a tibetan empire (1200 y. a. , free sign if it included tibetan script. the baltistan cultural foundation; baltis being a tibetan people with a tibetan past, in a tibetan place.