ANTH 202 Chapter Notes -Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Cultural Capital, Etiquette In Japan
8 Jul 2014
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Bestor - supply-side sushi: commodity, market, and the global city. Markets and places no longer support each other. If wall street and globalization literature are both to be believed markets are now literally utopian - nowhere in particular and everywhere all at once. Facilitating the velocity and frequency of exchanges are the dispersal (and relative density) of people living outside the cultures or societies of their origins and increase potential that exists for bi-, cross-, multi-societal and brokers to effect linkages. Accompanying these changes is the rapid cross-fertilization and arbitrage or cultural capital. Critical question for anthropologists: the extent to which forces of globalization have altered/will alter role of cities as central nodes in organization of regional, national, and inter-/trans- national flows of people. Many anthro. studies of market focus primarily on decision making or institutional structures of their organization within cities and markets.
