ANTH 2160 Lecture : ANTH2160April 2.docx
18 Apr 2012
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Isolated groups that were the focus of anthropology no longer exist. Anthropology needs to be relevant to contemporary world. Tourism, migration, ethnic conflict, cultural imperalism, political economy, resistance. Been a constant debate of role of anthro, how does it fit in post-colonial context, what does it mean as more people are moving around etc If i were gonna ask you what is the one thing that unites anthropologists to anthropology, different from malinowski and boas. Probably the one thing that unites anthropology as a discipline. Always talk about it changing world is changing with technologies, explosion of tourism, neo-liberal policies (something old with new spin- not. These changes as they relate to anthropology isolated groups that were the focus, no longer exist. Anthropology as a discipline has always embroiled in the expansion of global capitalism. Doing fieldwork in places that were colonized expansion of global capitalism. At first were not dealing with change trying to describe everything around them.
