ANTB20H3 : Week 7 MacDonald article notes
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Week 7 macdonald memories of tibet: transnationalism, transculturation and the. Localized cultural identity movements emerging in much of the world are often described as a retreat into roots and represented as a response to the threat of some vague set of processes known as globalization. But such representations obscure the role of multiple transnational pathways in supporting localized movements that claim to act in defense of particular models of place and culture. Formerly part of the state of jammu and kashmir, baltistan is now a region of the federally. Over the past ten years, an incipient movement, centered on a concern with the erosion of cultural identity, has grown in the urban centers of baltistan. This movement, like many others, is very much grounded in what are represented as essential qualities of people and place. 192 the cultural activism that is emerging in baltistan is facilitated by transnational exchanges of people and information.
