ANTH 2051 Study Guide - Final Guide: Slow Food, Varity, Sweatshop
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Please be prepared to define / distinguish, discuss the significance, and give examples of the following. If a concept is given, offer a concrete example and vice versa (give the idea that goes with the example). Where relevant, try to refer to the author of the idea: Indirectly: by limiting the amount of foreign programs you watch on tv. Hybridization: process that constantly throws out crative new mixtures of local cultures, where the global is no more than a huge arena where these hybrid forms move from place to place. When a local culture absorbs and then neutralizes the invader by transforming it into something that fits its own history. Another example is mcdonalds has been appropriated in east asia. Center- periphery model (wallerstein) the author suggests you can think of the world being centered. The people at the center are producing manifesting and people in at edges have raw materials. Fast food: has come to symbolize american consumer monoculture.
