AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ethnocentrism, Xingu River, Cultural Imperialism
Document Summary
The reshaping of local conditions by powerful global forces on an ever- intensifying scale. The intensification of global interconnectedness suggesting a world full of movement and mixture, contacts and linkages, and persistent cultural interaction and exchange. Global processes are interpreted and experienced in contradictory ways by different groups and actors: It can reinforce inequalities and favor people in power situation. It can also create new opportunities for some groups to build worldwide organizations to defend their interest. Disease, devastation, and misery have been all too common for indigenous people who have encountered western expansion. Anthropologists have long feared that indigenous amazonian people were destined for extinction, such as the guayaki case. But some indigenous people, such as the kayapo, have organized themselves to resist outside encroachment on their traditional land. Kayapo leaders have worked successfully with national and international allies.
