ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ethnocentrism, Ambivalence, Killer Whale
10 Dec 2017
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Involve syncretism- the blending of religious traditions, symbols, beliefs, rituals, images: normally occur in response to change, crisis, and stress (eg. colonialism, disease, warfare, population decrease, etc. , all religious begin as revitalization movements. Appropriating bits and pieces of cultures and religions to create something new. In response to colonialism, major change. happen at cultural level and the change is large scale. But i(cid:374) our age of glo(cid:271)alizatio(cid:374) : we see an increase in syncretism in religious and secular domains, called cultural appropriate (cross-cultural borrowing), what is globalization, and why. Globalization: refers to increasing interconnectedness as a result of changes in technology, communications, growth of tourism, transportation, free trade agreements, etc, has accelerated since the 1960s, can have economic and cultural consequences. In terms of culture-leads to increasing rates of cultural appropriation (among other things) Dominant cultures borrows or appropriates from marginalized communities. Promotes racism, eg. blackface, promoting racist forms of ideas of marginalized communities.
