ANTB20H3 Lecture : Week1 lecture 1 Globalization and orientalism
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Appadurai and immigration: there is somethins new and critical about glova, culture processes. Africa: an inconvenient example: africa is ignored but why, defenders of globalization theories would rather soeak of economic success stories, yhose who are critical of globalization often target the expanding capitalism/search for new and cheap labour. Africa is not global (ferguson: when assume something is global we assume something spreads across the globe and everyone benefits. All of us coexis in the same time frame. scapes) Claude levi straus quote: they are backward compare to us so they are animals. Ppl make distinctions by comparing others to ourselves. Orientalism interpretations of the east, shaped by the attitudes of european imperialism. These stereotyprs tell us more about ourselves and our cultural identity than about pthers. Edward said used the term to describe a pervasive western, bo academic and artistic, of prejudiced outsider experience. Creates a historical archive that comes up time and time again.
