ANTB20H3 Lecture : ANTB20; • Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy by Arjun Appudai
Document Summary
Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy by arjun appudai. Two main forces for sustaining cultural interactions have been: warfare and religious of conversion (in case of islam chosen warfare as a method of expansion) Print capitalism the power of mass literacy and its attendant large-scale production of projects of ethnic affinity of this need for face to face communication, no sense of place . Americanization- widespread popularization of the american life style and songs. The french idea of imaginary - as a constructed landscape of collective aspirations. Ethnoscapes- landscape of persons who constitute the shifting world in which we live (tourists, immigrants, and other moving groups that affect the politics of a nation. Mediascapes- landscape of imagine; refers both to the distribution of the electronic capabilities to produce/disseminate information and the images of the world created by these media. Technoscapes- global configuration, technology and the fact that technology moves now across at a fast speed without boundaries.
