ANTB20H3 Lecture : assignment 2.docx
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How to create your own essay topic and question: (1) pick two themes from the course: Labour migration and gender or sex work and cultural tourism or the informal economy and orientalism or arranged marriages and transnationalism lec 4 and lec 8. Reread readings from these weeks, formulate a topic and a question. Things to consider; marriage age (culturally determined, global phenom?) (2) create your own topic by combining these two themes: Finding love on the internet or sex tourism or the informal economy in the dominican republic (3) pose a question that will help you better understand how identity is constructed in the specific context of your topic: How are these people represented and how do they represent themselves in the face of globalization? or what is the role of imagined communities , including national and transnational players? . You might want to keep these in mind: Provide at least one definition of globalization from the readings.
