Anthropology and Globalization

1
Anthropology and Globalization

• HSB4M

2
Anthropological Interpretations

• Sidetracking
• Diffusion
• Americanization
• What do these all have in common?
• Give an example of each from China.
• Give an example from the globalization images.

3
Cultural Costs of Globalization

• Cultural Costs, pages 329-331
• Consequences of internationalization of cultures
• Cultural losses
• Young peoples sense of _____________ as they
  lose touch with their traditional culture (e.g.,
  Inuit)
• __________ (e.g., Quebec can be overwhelmed by
  English culture)
• ____________ (e.g., when building hydroelectric
  dams in the Amazon)
• Changing of cultural norms
• izations
• Homogenization (________ of cultures)
• Deterritorialization (when one culture is not
  physically attached to one ________, often
  because of migration, immigration)
• Westernization/Americanization
• Industrialization

4
You Are the Anthropologist

• HSBC taxi ad
• http//www.youtube.com/user/HSBC?ob0featureresu
  lts_main
• What questions would an anthropologist ask as
  he/she travelled in the taxi?

5
Beijing Development

• Beijing hutong (traditional courtyard
  neighbourhood)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vGASqYeog6_4feature
  related
• Contrast with Beijing skyline
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vdcHhaUdedEU
• Time Beijings Changing Skyline (up to 2008
  Olympics)
• http//www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,166
  3392,00.html

Travel China Now. (2012). Attraction guide
Beijing hutong. Retrieved April 15, 2012 from
http//www.travelchinanow.com/attraction/beijing/b
eijing-hutong/
6
Hutong Destruction
Benson, H. (2008, July 8). Michael Meyer
documents old Beijing districts. Retrieved April
15, 2012 from http//www.sfgate.com/cgi- bin/ar
ticle.cgi?f/c/a/2008/07/07/DDQE11DRM5.DTLaoall
7
Old vs. New
Global Heritage Network. (2010, August 4).
Development pressures at Beijing hutongs.
Retrieved April 15, 2012 from http//globalherit
agenetwork.ning.com/photo/development-pressures-at
?contextfeatured
8
Economic Costs of Globalization (330, 332)

• Costa Rica
• Cash crops crops grown for sale, usually export
• Profit goes to the __________ where the products
  are exported and sold or fully processed
• Loss of independent decision-making
• Social programs are things like welfare, health
  care social safety net programs where
  government intervenes in the economy to protect
  people
• Costa Rica had them but ___________ them when it
  wanted to get more involved in the global
  economy. To make itself more attractive to
  foreign investors and to be in a position to
  receive IMF and WB loans, it needed to have low
  _________ and ______.

9
Anthropological Theories of Globalization

• Notes on 5 anthropological theories of
  globalization, 332-333.
• Modernization theory
• Dependency theory
• World-system theory
• Neo-Marxian theory
• Globalization theory

10
Amazon

• The Nature of Things The Real Avatar
• http//www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/201
  1/peru/
• Peruvian Amazon how indigenous peoples are
  being affected by resource development and
  extraction in their regions

http//walrusmagazine.com/articles/2010.03-field-n
otes-law-of-the-jungle/
11
Resource Extraction

• Mining company Rio Tinto
• http//www.youtube.com/user/RioTintoVideos
• Canadian recruiting ad
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vw9A5en5zK14listUU
  gFbKCoyKdwayoIOJzSZzXQindex4featureplcp
• Oil Sands in Alberta
• Fort Chippewyan downstream impacts

12
Turquoise Hill

• Oyu Tolgoi
• http//www.ivanhoemines.com/i/Oyu_Video.html