ANTH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Silk Road, Collectivism, Eurasianism
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Tanya, misha, lena, and rinat: where are they now? in putin"s. Highly populated, enormous in geographical size and population. Communism: manufacturing and cheap labour (low cost, mass production, why combine europe and asia, moving away from cold war scholarship. Asiatic russia (the russian far east: migration from asia, changes the population demographics, moscow; outlying regions of the city have many tea houses because of the labour immigration from asia. Distinctions between who you are based on your parents and political/values beliefs. Dad "russian" and mother "other", "mix breed" person. Tried to learn about european technologies (boat building, borrowing technologies and knowledge) Eurasia is trying to refocus the idea that russia is not only european. Eurasia as a way of creating "eden"; east and west synthesis. Links between russia, japan, china, india, turkey; new centres. Still, a very useful term to describe russia"s position in the world.
