Anthropology 4400E- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)

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The easy answer is that because we have always done this. Anthro 4400 lecture 5 notes: looking at things today like post-modernism, readings for today: michel-rolph trouillot (anthropology and the savage slot) & lila. Tuesday, october 3, 2017 anthro 4400 oct 4th readings. Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy. The tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization. Ve dimensions of global cultural ow which can be termed: (a) ethnoscapes; (b) mediascapes; (c) technoscapes; (d) nanscapes; and (e) ideoscapes. Second reading : akhil gupta the song of the nonaligned world: transnational. Identities and the reinscription of space in late capitalism. Nations seem so natural that we forget its a recent phenomenon. The nonaligned movement (nam) vs the european community (ec) The nam met in 1955 in bandung (29 countries) It was an assertion of agency on the part of third world na- tion-states that de ned what it meant to be sovereign and independent