Center for Global Studies CGS 1021F Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Low Culture, Cultural Studies, Early Human Migrations
13 Nov 2017
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Capital (cid:498)c(cid:499) culture: high end creative production. Class 2: example: classical music, the way we speak (formal english/british. Phases of cultural globalization: premodern (prior to 1500, modern (1500-1945, contemporary (1945 onwards, the above are phases of globalization (these chronologies allow us to trade its origins and development). Emergence of world religions: spread of world faiths often considered to be another indication of globalization in the premodern era (because it is generated transregional alliances) Early imperial systems: at most, limited manifestations of globalization (hopper 17, empires incorporated diverse groups of people into geographical territories (power achieved by military conquests, political, etc) International economic interconnections go back further than the early modern era. Conclusions of the idea of premodern globalization: cultural flows were sporadic and slow and hard to sustain, cultural flows would be sporadic if you didn"t properly sail to a certain part of the world.
