ANTB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Relativism, Franz Boas, Cast Net
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Cultural tourism lec 10 march 18th, 2013. These women leave behind women and children to work for a family somewhere else in a more developed country. Migration attractive because there is more money in this new place. Not just economic attraction, but once person is motived by money, the nation and other values come into play. Documentary- filipino migrant workers are described as heros of the nations- b/c they are bringing in a lot of foreign income (their highest export) Money that comes in generates enough income in gdp to balance the income, the politics of nationalism is based on our people being good people (christian/well paid) This certain migrant workers are preferred over certain migrants. How kinship networks are fractured at home, but remade in places they go. I"ve fed you from young age, i have become like your mother, not really related but are.
