ANTH 2110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Benjamin Barber, Mcworld, Deindustrialization

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2110
• Professor: Antonio Sorge

Document Summary

The study of localities is important to globalization as it emphasizes the struggles of maintaining a cultural identity in a homogenizing world. Shows the connections of how local affects global and how global affects local. Mintz"s work focusing on the sugar plantations in the caribbean shows that production and export of sugar from mills to colonies showed the importance of manual labour in localities to strengthen more powerful countries far away. Saurez-navaz speaks of the andalusians in spain, the reconquest by spanish people from. Islamic rule triggered convivencia, the peaceful co-existence and conflict that shows how people see their culture and want to keep it alive, not to mix it with others. Sorge talks about sardinia and urbanity taking place within the region, globalization shapes the way people see the world and west countries being more developed. Women in sardinia do not want to marry their own men because of the contrast between them and western men.