ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Debit Card, Vimeo, Biological Anthropology
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A toolkit for the global age - kenneth j. Chapter 1 - anthropology in a global age. The coca-cola bottling plant in plachimada, india (left villagers w/out potable water so they had to protest against the coca-cola plant) It is said that power is held w/in corporations rather than w/in government. It is very hard for the local people to protest because companies have funds and power whereas these people have no means besides their location and the valuables w/in their homes. Anthropology is the study of the full scope of human diversity and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds to better understand one another. Time-space compression (rapid innovation of communication and transportation technologies associated with globalization that transforms the way people think about space and time ) Flexible accumulation (everything is fueled by finance and money can now be transferred worldwide) (ex. Atm, paypal, vimeo, debit card, credit card, etc )
