SOCA 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Dutch East Indies, Islamic Revival, Cultural Relativism
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Early direct contact: silk road in antiquity, portuguese trading ships. Consequences of colonialism: demographic change, farmers increased family size, high birth rates, european medicine, sanitation, economic change, colonialists steered asia toward agricultural goods for export. Land converted to large farms; could no longer support farming villages. Local craft decline dependent on imported western goods: religious change-middle east. Islamic tradition dates to 570 ad w/ the prophet muhammad: same roots as christianity, judaism (abraham as the founder, western missionaries found success in teaching western culture rather. Ethnographic studies: ethnographic studied or real villages n the middle east have contributed to a better understanding of interconnections between core and peripheral nations. Influx of migrants for urban labor: social mobility, rising incomes, new social classes demanding new goods/service, decline in tradition handicrafts. Middle eastern family: hamula, descent. kingship group with a founding father; important component social relations in the muslim world.
