ANTH 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Major Force, Acculturation, Free Trade
26 Oct 2018
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Framework for thinking about the flows of people, information, goods, and technology. Process that promotes economic, political and other cultural connections among people living all over the world. World has been global and interconnected since 16th century. Precursors to globalization: human groups have always moved around carrying their culture, exchanging goods, stories and ideas, european exploration and colonialism, spread of industrial capitalism. Histories of globalization: diffusion, spread of cultural trait, acculturation, acquiring second culture, sustained, imbalanced contact between two societies, colonialism, organized system of occupation and exploitation, imperialism, creating empire. Global culture change is always complex and multidimensional. Global culture change brings benefits and burdens. Benefits and burdens aren"t evenly distributed: massive inequality. Globalization of the past shapes globalization of the present. Economic factors: transnational corporations, integrated financial markets, free trade zones. Technology: global flow of information and communication. Political changes: fall of communist regimes, rise of igos and ingos, rising important of international coalitions (the eu, un, etc)
