GEOG-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Julie Chu, Cultural Geography, Neolithic
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The reasons people have for emigrating vary from country to country and even person to person. Fieldwork in small village of longyan, china. People who live overseas send remittances back home. A large portion of the money they send goes to the construction of homes and temples, migrants build american guests as a symbol of their success abroad. People left behind felt displaced because they were immobile. The boundaries of their social world shifted even though they still stayed at home. They feel displaced and excluded from a cosmopolitan world. Commodity: any good or service that is produced by human labor and that is offered for sale on the market. Cultural geographers are interested in: how, why, where, and under what conditions commodities are produced, the ways commodity chains link people"s lives in different places. Commodity chain: a network of labor, production, and consumption processes whose end result is a finished commodity.
