ANTB20H3 : ANTB20 study guide

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anthropologists show how these global flows are still rooted in place" ideas of kinship, reproduce inequalities. global flows are still situated in national/regional political interests. People may be remaking themselves through new practices created by globalization. however these new identities still framed + interpreted along the lines of kinship/gender/ race. a metaphor to illustrate working people . (gregory: 2007;3-4) Eriksen 3 dimensions of globalization increased driven econ activity faster and denser comm. 3 intensified tensions between (and within) cultural groups. 1 anthropology offers a better understanding of these global processes with the perspective and lense through which they chose to pay attention to. 2 the everyday tensions and lived experience of globalization invisibility" of certain groups of people due to the focus of attention on the macro political and economic processes of globalization. 3 the changing cultural meanings" that people attach to their lives and their ongoing interpretation and adaptation.